Essentials of Strategic Management (pdf)

Description

ESSENTIALS OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, Third Edition, is a brief version of the authors’ market-leading text STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, helping students identify and focus on core concepts in the field in a more succinct, streamlined format.

Cutting-edge research, new strategic management theory, and a hands-on approach allow students to explore major topics in management, including corporate performance, governance, strategic leadership, technology, and business ethics. Its high-quality case program examines small, medium, and large companies–both domestic and international–so that students gain practice putting chapter concepts into action.

Based on real-world practices and current thinking, the text’s presentation of strategic management features an increased emphasis on the “business model” concept as a way of framing the issues of competitive advantage.