This leading strategy text presents the complexities of strategic management through up-to-date scholarship and hands-on applications. Highly respected authors Gareth Jones and Charles Hill integrate cutting-edge research on topics including corporate performance, governance, strategic leadership, technology, and business ethics through both theory and cases. Based on real-world practices and current thinking in the field, the Eighth Edition of Strategic Management features an increased emphasis on the concept of the "business model" as a way of framing the issues of competitive advantage. The high-quality case study program has been expanded to 32 cases covering small, medium, and large companies of varying backgrounds. All cases are available in the main student text, the core case text, and now in a customizable casebook that instructors can create via the HMXChange Case Database.

PART 1: STRATEGIC OVERVIEW.
1. Leadership, Strategy & Competitive Advantage.
2. Opportunities and Threats – Analyzing the External Environment.
PART 2: COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE.
3. Competencies and Profitably – Analyzing Internal Resources.
4. Strategy at the Functional Level.
PART 3: FORMULATING STRATEGIES.
5. Strategy at the Business Level.
6. Industry Environment and Business Level Strategy.
7. Technology.
8. Global Strategy.
9. Strategy at the Corporate Level.
10. Corporate Diversification Strategy.
PART 4: IMPLEMENTING STRATEGY.
11. Performance and Governance.
12. Corporate Single Industry Strategy.
13. Corporate Strategy across Countries and Industries.
Charles W. L. Hill
Charles W. L. Hill is the Hughes M. Blake Professor of Business at the University of Washington Business School. 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 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 Microsoft and Boeing. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, England.


Gareth R. Jones
Gareth R. Jones is currently a professor at Texas A&M University. He received his PhD 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 the major management journals and is co-author of several textbooks.

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