(eBook PDF) Strategic Management: Theory & Cases: An Integrated Approach 12th Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1305502272
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1305502277
• Author: Charles W. L. Hill, Melissa A. Schilling, Gareth R. Jones

This comprehensive and engaging text presents the complexities of strategic management through up-to-date scholarship and hands-on applications. Highly respected authors Hill, Schilling, and Jones integrate cutting-edge research on topics including competitive advantage, corporate governance, diversification, strategic leadership, technology and innovation, and corporate social responsibility through both theory and case studies. Based on real-world practices and current thinking in the field, the 12th edition features an increased emphasis on the changing global economy and its role in strategic management. The appendix walks students through the case-analysis process, and explains key ratios that managers use to compare the performance of firms. The high-quality case study program contains 31 cases covering small, medium, and large companies from a large range of industries and nations. Featured cases in this edition include Tesla Motors, India’s Tata Group, Sangamo’s development of a gene editing cure for HIV, Skullcandy, Uber, Microsoft, Google, and Staples. When paired with this student-centric text, the MindTap learning solution will prepare the next generation of strategic leaders.

Table contents:

Part I: Introduction to strategic management

1. Strategic leadership : managing the strategy-making process for competitive advantage

2. External analysis : the identification of opportunities and threats

Part II: The nature of competitive advantage

3. Internal analysis : resources and competitive advantage

4. Competitive advantage through functional-level strategies

Part III: Strategies

5. Business-level strategy

6. Business-level strategy and the industry environment

7. Strategy and technology

8. Strategy in the global environment

9. Corporate-level strategy : horizontal integration, vertical integration, and strategic outsourcing

10. Corporate-level strategy : related and unrelated diversification

Part IV: Implementing strategy

11. Corporate governance, social responsibility and ethics

12. Implementing strategy through organization