Strategic Management or Organizational Behavior

Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, Concepts

Author: Michael A Hitt

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, CONCEPTS Eighth Edition, is a comprehensive Strategic Management text that combines impeccable scholarship; cutting-edge research; a sophisticated and practical global focus; and the most thorough, up-to-date, and relevant business examples available. Now, this seminal business text is enhanced by the addition of powerful new media and technology resources, including an updated video program, CengageNOW online teaching tools, and the Business and Company Resource Center (BCRC)—a complete electronic business library. The highly respected authors, all active teachers and experts in the strategic management field, use a unique model that blends classic industrial organization with a resource-based view of the firm to explain how real-world businesses use strategic management to build a sustained competitive advantage. The text includes current and relevant examples to provide context for key concepts, outstanding figures and models to illustrate key points, and a broad range of critical issues confronting mangers today.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Strategic Management Inputs
Ch. 1	Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness	2
Ch. 2	The External Environment: Opportunities, Threats, Industry Competition, and Competitor Analysis	46
Ch. 3	The Internal Environment: Resources, Capabilities, and Core Competencies	92
Pt. 2	Strategic Actions: Strategy Formulation
Ch. 4	Business-Level Strategy	140
Ch. 5	Competitive Dynamics	184
Ch. 6	Corporate-Level Strategy	228
Ch. 7	Acquisition and Restructuring Strategies	272
Ch. 8	International Strategy	312
Ch. 9	Cooperative Strategy	358
Pt. 3	Strategic Actions: Strategy Implementation
Ch. 10	Corporate Governance	400
Ch. 11	Organizational Structure and Controls	440
Ch. 12	Strategic Leadership	484
Ch. 13	Corporate Enterpreneurship and Innovation	520
Pt. 4	Cases

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Organizational Behavior: Core Concepts

Author: Robert Vecchio

Easily master the core concepts of organizational behavior with ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR! With coverage of theory, research, and practice, this management text provides you with the tools you need to succeed. Chapter opening vignettes and boxes, an inside look boxed feature, experiential exercises, and critical incidents found throughout the text make exam preparation easy. See organizational behavior principles in the real world through short stories, current examples, and experiential exercises.

Table of Contents:

PART I: INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES. 1. An Introduction to Organizational Behavior. 2. Personality and Perception. 3. Changing Employee Behavior through Consequences. 4. Motivation. 5. Enhancing Employee Motivation Using Rewards, Goals, Expectations and Empowerment. PART II: INTERPERSONAL PROCESSES. 6. Power and Politics. 7. Leadership. 8. Decision Making. 9. Group Dynamics. 10. Managing Conflict. 11. Managing Stress and Employee Job Satisfaction. PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS. 12. Communication. 13. Organizational Design and Environmental Influences. 14. Cultural Influences. 15. Managing Organizational Change and Development.