Strategic Management and Business Policy, Global Edition, 15th Edition

For courses in Strategic Management and Business Policy.

Utilize a strategic management model to learn and apply key concepts through cases

Picking up where the popular previous editions left off, Strategic Management and Business Policy: Globalization, Innovation and Sustainability, 15th Edition further sharpens and modernizes this classic text’s approach to teaching strategy with an emphasis on globalization, innovation, and sustainability. Throughout, the authors equip students with the strategic concepts they will need to know as they face the issues that all organizations must build upon to push their businesses forward. In this edition, Alan Hoffman and Chuck Bamford bring a fresh perspective to this extraordinarily well­-researched and practically crafted lesson. Also included is a new chapter on Global Strategy, along with new vignettes and comprehensive, real-world case studies.

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Table of Contents

Part One Introduction to Strategic Management and Business Policy
Chapter 1 Basic Concepts of Strategic Management
Chapter 2 Corporate Governance
Chapter 3 Social Responsibility and Ethics in Strategic Management

Part Two Scanning the Environment
Chapter 4 Environmental Scanning and Industry Analysis
Chapter 5 Organizational Analysis and Competitive Advantage

Part Three Strategy Formulation
Chapter 6 Strategy Formulation: Business Strategy
Chapter 7 Strategy Formulation: Corporate Strategy
Chapter 8 Strategy Formulation: Functional Strategy and Strategic Choice

Part Four Strategy Implementation and Control
Chapter 9 Strategy Implementation: Global Strategy
Chapter 10 Strategy Implementation: Organizing and Structure
Chapter 11 Strategy Implementation: Staffing and Directing
Chapter 12 Evaluation and Control

Part Five Introduction to Case Analysis
Chapter 13 Suggestions for Case Analysis

Part Six Cases in Strategic Management
Section A Executive Leadership
Section B Business Ethics
Section C Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
Section D Privacy
Section E International Issues in Strategic Management
Section F General Issues in Strategic Management