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. When paired with this student-centric text, the MindTap learning solution will prepare the next generation of strategic leaders.
Part I: INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT.
1. Strategic Leadership: Managing the Strategy-Making Process for Competitive Analysis.
2. External Analysis: The Identification of Opportunities and Threats.
Part II: THE NATURE OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE.
3. Internal Analysis: Resources and Competitive Advantage.
4. Building Competitive Advantage Through Functional-Level Strategy.
Part III: STRATEGIES.
5. Building Competitive Advantage Through 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.
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Charles W. L. Hill
Charles W. L. Hill is the Hughes M. Blake Professor of Business at the University of Washington Business School in Seattle. His research interests focus on competition and competitive analysis, corporate strategy, international business, organizational structure and corporate governance. Dr. Hill has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and has served on the editorial boards of several top-tier journals, including the Academy of Management Review and the Strategic Management Journal. He also is the author of a successful international business textbook. An active consultant, Dr. Hill has worked with numerous leading companies. He has worked with Microsoft for almost 20 years and continues to be active within that organization. Dr. Hill received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
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Melissa A. Schilling
Melissa Schilling is the John Herzog Professor of Management and Organizations at New York University Stern School of Business. Her research focuses on innovation and creativity and addresses topics such as collaboration and technology trajectories in high technology industries that encompass computers, smartphones, biotechnology, electric vehicles and video games. Her innovation textbook, STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, is the number one innovation strategy text in the world and is available in seven languages. Her research in innovation and strategy has earned her awards such as the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, PICMET’s Leadership in Technology Management Award and the Best Paper in Management Science and Organization Science for 2007 Award. Her research has also appeared in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and Research Policy. She sits on the editorial review boards of Organization Science, Strategic Organization, Academy of Management Discoveries and Strategy Science. She has also advised companies including IBM, Bloomberg, Siemens and others on strategy and innovation. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle.
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Gareth R. Jones
Gareth R. Jones was a Professor of Management in the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University. He received his B.A. in Economics/Psychology and his Ph.D. in Management from the University of Lancaster, England, and he is trained in Economics and Organizational Theory and Behavior. His research interests include organizational design for performance, the evolution of business and corporate-level strategy. Dr. Jones has published articles in all of the major management journals and has co-authored several leading textbooks.
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Chapter 3 on competitive advantage has been revised to clarify the role of resources (factors of production) in the establishment of a firm's competitive advantage. Jay Barney's VRIO model is also explicitly discussed for the first time.
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Chapter 5 on business level strategy has been further revised to streamline the presentation, tighten up the discussion of business level strategies, introduce the concept of value innovation, and discuss the implication of "blue ocean strategy" for business level strategy choices.
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Chapters 12 and 13 have been combined into one chapter (now Chapter 12) and the presentation has been significantly tightened to focus on the key issues.
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To ensure the highest quality, Charles Hill and Melissa Shilling wrote all of the cases in this edition. Twenty full-length cases and 12 shorter cases cover all relevant issues discussed in the text. Cases are available for use in the MindTap® digital learning solution for this book, as well as by custom order.
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"Strategy in Action" features highlight key organizations implementing chapter-specific strategic management processes.
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The new MindTap® digital learning solution helps students build key management skills that will prepare them to become the next strategic leaders. Apply what you've learned in our immersive learning environment that challenges you to step into the shoes of a strategic manager and solve real-world problems, and collaborate with your classmates.
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MindTap®: This comprehensive digital learning solution is designed to elevate thinking and develop tomorrow's strategic leaders. After carefully studying this course area and talking to instructors and students across the country, we've created an immersive learning experience tailored specifically to the objectives of strategic management. The fully-customizable learning path provides a scaffolded set of learning activities that engages students with content, and increases in depth and complexity as they progress through the assignments for each chapter.
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The new MindTap® digital learning solution gives students the opportunity to step into the shoes of a strategic manager and solve real-world problems.
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"Strategy in Action" features highlight key organizations implementing chapter-specific strategic management processes.
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Opening Cases build the foundation for student comprehension in each chapter, while closing Cases provide in-class discussion opportunities.
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The organizations discussed in the cases range from large, well-known companies, for which students can do research to update the information, to small, entrepreneurial businesses that illustrate the uncertainty and challenge of the strategic management process.
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