TY - BOOK AU - AU - TI - Essentials of strategic management. SN - 9780618605361 AV - HD30.28.H64 PY - 2008/// CY - New York: PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Strategic planning KW - United States. KW - Case studies. KW - Business planning KW - Case studies. KW - Management KW - United States N1 - Contents:1. Introduction to strategic management: The Strategy-making process -- Stakeholders, the Mission, Governance and business ethics -- 2. The Nature of competitive advantage: External analysis: the identification of opportunities and threats -- Building competitive advantage -- 3. Building and sustaining long-run competitive advantage: Business-level strategy and competitive positioning -- Strategy in the global environment -- Corporate-level strategy and long-run profitability -- 4. Strategy implementation: Strategic change: implementing strategies to build and develop a company -- Implementing strategy through organizational design -- 5. Cases in strategic management -- ER -