Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases [Loose-leaf]

Students enjoy the concise and approachable style of Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases, 5th Edition. Written in an accessible Harvard Business Review style with lots of practical examples and strategy tools, this course engages students with an easy-to-understand learning experience to strategic management concepts that will help them succeed in today's workplace. The newest edition of Strategic Management sparks ideas, fuels creative thinking, and discussion, while engaging students via contemporary examples, outstanding author-produced cases, unique Strategy Tool Applications, and much more!

ABOUT THE AUTHORS iii

PREFACE v

1 What Is Business Strategy? 1

2 Analysis of the External Environment: Opportunities and Threats 19

3 Internal Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Competitive Advantage 45

4 Cost Advantage 62

5 Differentiation Advantage 81

6 Corporate Strategy 100

7 Vertical Integration and Outsourcing 121

8 Strategic Alliances 137

9 International Strategy 156

10 Innovative Strategies that Change the Nature of Competition 180

11 Competitive Strategy and Sustainability 196

12 Implementing Strategy 217

13 Corporate Governance and Ethics 236

14 Strategy and Society 253

APPENDIX A Data Sources for Analysis 269

APPENDIX B 20 Valuable Financial Ratios for Strategic Analysis 279

GLOSSARY 283

COMPANY INDEX 288

NAME INDEX 291

SUBJECT INDEX 292

CASE 1 Walmart Stores: Gaining and Sustaining a Competitive Advantage C-1

CASE 2 Blue Raven Solar: Competing il¦