Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts and Cases, Global Edition -- MyLab Management with Pearson eText

Fred R. David has been lead author of this textbook for three decades. This text is a global leader in the field of strategic management providing an applications, practitioner-approach to the discipline. Approximately 500 colleges and universities currently use this textbook in 20 countries. With a PhD in Management from the University of South Carolina, Dr. David is currently the Tran South Professor of Strategic Planning at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. He has published more than 40 academic journal articles. Forest R. David has been sole author of the Case Instructor's Resource Manual for seven editions of this textbook. This Manual provides extensive teachers' notes (solutions) for all the cases. Forest has also been sole author of the Chapter Instructor's Manual, Case MyLab, and Chapter MyLab ancillaries, as well as the free Excel Student Template found on the author website (strategyclub.com). Forest has published more than 80 strategic management cases, articles, and papers. He has taught strategic-management courses at Mississippi State University and Francis Marion University, and management courses at Campbell University. Meredith E. David holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina and an MBA Degree from Wake Forest University. She's currently an Assistant Professor Marketing at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She has published more than 30 articles, cases, and papers on marketing and strategic management in such journals as the Journal of Consumer Behavior, Journal of Advertising, Journal of Strategic Marketing, European Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Business Research. Meredith has travelled the world over as a professor and student. Before joining the coauthor team on this textbook, Meredith received the prestigious Young Researcher Award in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University.

PART 1: OVERVIEW OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
1. The Nature of Strategic Management
PART 2: STRATEGY FORMULATION
2. Business Vision and Mission
3. The External Assessment
4. The Internal Assessment
5. Strategies in Action
6. Strategy Analysis and Choice
PART 3: STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION
7. Implementing Strategies: Management and Marketing Issues
8. Implementing Strategies: Finance and Accounting Issues
PART 4: STRATEGY EVALUATION AND GOVERNANCE
9. Strategy Evaluation and Governance
PART 5: KEY STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT TOPICS
10. Business Ethics, Environmental Sustainability, and Corporate Social Responsibility
11. Global and International Issues
PART 6: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CASE ANALYSIS
How to Prepare and Present a Case Analysis