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050 0 0 _aHD 30.28
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100 1 _aGamble, John
245 1 0 _aEssentials of strategic management :
_bthe quest for competitive advantage /
250 _a5th ed.
260 _aNew York, NY. ;
_bMcGraw-Hill ;
_cc 2017.
300 _axvii, 462 pages :
_billustrations ;
490 0 _aMcGraw-Hill international edition
500 _aRevised edition of the authors' Essentials of strategic management, 2015.
505 0 _aConcepts and techniques for crafting and executing strategy -- Section a: introduction and overview -- Strategy, business models, and competitive advantage -- Charting a company's direction: vision and -mission, objectives, and strategy -- Section b: core concepts and analytical tools -- Evaluating a company's external environment -- Evaluating a company's resources, capabilities, and competitiveness -- Crafting a strategy -- The five generic competitive strategies -- Strengthening a company's competitive -position : strategic moves, timing, and scope of operations -- Strategies for competing in international markets -- Corporate strategy: diversification and the -multibusiness company -- Ethics, corporate social responsibility, -environmental sustainability, and strategy -- Executing the strategy -- Superior strategy execution-another path to competitive advantage -- Cases in crafting and executing strategy -- Case 1 mystic monk coffee -- Case 2 under armour's strategy in 2013-good enough to win market share from nike and adidas? -- Case 3 lululemon athletica, inc -- Case 4 coach inc. in 2012 : its strategy in the "accessible" luxury goods market -- Case 5 chipotle mexican grill in 2013: can it hit a second home run? -- Case 6 google's strategy in 2013 -- Case 7 nucor corporation in 2012 : using -economic downturns as an opportunity to grow stronger -- Case 8 tata motors: can it become a global -- Contender in the automobile industry? -- Case 9 the walt disney company : its -diversification strategy in 2012 -- Case 10 robin hood -- Case 11 herman miller inc. : -unrelenting pursuit of reinvention and renewal -- Case 12 frog's leap winery in 2011-the -sustainability agenda.
650 0 _aStrategic planning.
650 0 _aBusiness planning.
650 0 _aCompetition.
700 1 _aThompson, Arthur A.,
700 1 _aPeteraf, Margaret Ann,
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