Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases

Part I: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INPUTS.1. Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness.2. The External Environment: Opportunities, Threats, Industry Competition, and Competitor Analysis.3. The Internal Organization: Resources, Capabilities, Core Competencies, and Competitive Advantages.Part II: STRATEGIC ACTIONS: STRATEGY FORMULATION.4. Business-Level Strategy.5. Competitive Rivalry and Competitive Dynamics.6. Corporate-Level Strategy.7. Merger and Acquisition Strategies.8. International Strategy.9. Cooperative Strategy.Part III: STRATEGIC ACTIONS: STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION.10. Corporate Governance.11. Organizational Structure and Controls.12. Strategic Leadership.13. Strategic Entrepreneurship.Part IV: CASES.

Hitt, MichaelMichael Hitt is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University and a Distinguished Research Fellow at Texas Christian University. Dr. Hitt received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He has co-authored or co-edited 27 books and numerous journal articles. A recent article listed him as one of the 10 most cited authors in management during a 25-year period. The Times Higher Education 2010 listed him among the top scholars in economics, finance and management based on the number of highly cited articles he has authored. A recent article in the Academy of Management Perspectives lists him as one of the top two management scholars in terms of the combined impact of his work both inside (i.e., citations in scholarly journals) and outside of academia. Dr. Hitt has served on the editorial review boards of multiple journals and is a former editor of the Academy of Management Journal and a former co-editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He is a fellow in the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of International Business. He has received honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and from Jonkoping University. He is a former president of both the Academy of Management and of the Strategic Management Society. He received awards for the best article published in the Academy of Management Executive (1999), Academy of Management Journal (2000), Journal of Management (2006), and Family Business Review (2012). In 2006, he received the Falcone Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar Award from Syracuse University. In 2017, he received the Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Educator from the Academy of Management. He also received Distinguished Alumnus Awards from Texas Tech University in 2018 and from the University of Colorado in 2018. In 2014-2017, Dr. Hitt was listed as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.