Book Description
Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, 6th edition provides the most accurate, relevant, and complete presentation of strategic management today. Authors Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, and Robert E. Hoskisson thoroughly revised each chapter, weaving cutting-edge ideas, research, and modern practice to create a presentation that captures the dynamic nature of the field. The authors integrate the traditional industrial organizational model of strategic management with the more modern resource-based view of the firm to explain how firms use the strategic management process to build a sustained competitive advantage.

Book Info
A detailed investigation of strategic management in the context of globalization and competitiveness. Provides an integrated approach, but firm-based theory of strategic management is stressed throughout. Case studies included. Softcover.

About the Author
Michael A. Hitt received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He has authored or coauthored several books and book chapters and numerous journal articles in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of Management, among others. He has served on the editorial review boards of multiple journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, and Journal of Applied Psychology. Furthermore, he has served as Consulting Editor (1988-90) and Editor (1991-1993) of the Academy of Management Journal. He has served as co-editor for special issues of the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, and Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. He also has co-edited or coauthored several recent books including Managing Strategically in an Interconnected World (1998, John Wiley & Sons), New Managerial Mindsets (1998, John Wiley & Sons), Dynamic Strategic Resources (1999, John Wiley & Sons), Winning Strategies in a Deconstructing Environment (2000, John Wiley & Sons) and Creating Value Through Mergers and Acquisitions (2001, Oxford University Press). He is an inaugural member of the Academy of Management Journal's Hall of Fame and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Finally, he has received the Award for Outstanding Academic Contributions to Competitiveness (1996) and Award for Outstanding Intellectual Contributions to Competitiveness Research (1999) from the American Society of Competitiveness and is a Fellow in the Academy of Management.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, 6th edition provides the most accurate, relevant, and complete presentation of strategic management today. Authors Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, and Robert E. Hoskisson thoroughly revised each chapter, weaving cutting-edge ideas, research, and modern practice to create a presentation that captures the dynamic nature of the field. The authors integrate the traditional industrial organizational model of strategic management with the more modern resource-based view of the firm to explain how firms use the strategic management process to build a sustained competitive advantage.

SYNOPSIS

For the sixth edition of this text/CD-ROM package, Hitt (chair, Business Leadership, Texas A&M University) adds three new or updated strategic focus segments per chapter, 35 new cases (many with a financial analysis component), more experiential exercises, and new video footage on the CD-ROM. He integrates two of the most popular and well-known theoretical perspectives in the field, organization economics and the resource-based view of the firm, to explain the process of strategic management, covering strategic management inputs, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation. The CD-ROM contains financial case analyses with interactive spreadsheets. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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