Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization: Concepts

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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. This is the concepts only split of the text. 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.