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Concepts in Strategic Management and Business Policy: Globalization, Innovation and Sustainability, Global Edition

• Title Page


• Copyright Page


• Dedication Page


• Brief Contents


• Contents


• Preface


• About the Authors


• Part One: Introduction to Strategic Management and Business Policy


• Chapter 1 Basic Concepts of Strategic Management


• The Study of Strategic Management


• Phases of Strategic Management


• Benefits of Strategic Management


• Globalization, Innovation, and Sustainability: Challenges to Strategic Management


• Impact of Globalization


• Impact of Innovation


• Global Issue: Asean: Regional Trade Associations


• Impact of Sustainability


• Theories of Organizational Adaptation


• Creating a Learning Organization


• Basic Model of Strategic Management


• Environmental Scanning


• Strategy Formulation


• Strategy Implementation


• Evaluation and Control


• Feedback/Learning Process


• Initiation of Strategy: Triggering Events


• Strategic Decision Making


• What Makes a Decision Strategic?


• Mintzberg?s Modes of Strategic Decision Making


• Strategic Decision-making Process: Aid to Better Decisions


• The Strategic Audit: Aid to Strategic Decision Making


• End of Chapter Summary


• Appendix 1.A Strategic Audit of a Corporation


• Chapter 2 Corporate Governance


• Role of the Board of Directors


• Responsibilities of the Board


• Board of Directors Composition


• Innovation Issue: Jcpenney and Innovation


• Strategy Highlight: Agency Theory Versus Stewardship Theory in Corporate Governance


• Nomination and Election of Board Members


• Organization of the Board


• Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on U.S. Corporate Governance


• Global Issue: Global Business Board Activism at Yahoo!


• Improving Governa