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Strategic Management: Text and Cases ,written by authors Dess, McNamara, Eisner, and Sauerwald continues itstradition of being readable, relevant, and rigorous. Its engaging writing styleminimizes jargon to maximize readability. It provides examples frommanagement practice and societal themes including environmental sustainability,ethics, globalization, entrepreneurship, and data analytics to make the contentrelevant. It draws on the latest research by management scholars andinsights from executives to balance accessibility with rigor. 

The authors provide separate chapters on the role of intellectualassets in value creation (Ch. 4), entrepreneurial strategy and competitivedynamics (Ch. 8), and fostering entrepreneurship in established organizations(Ch. 12). This version includes all the text and 38 cases. 

PART 1: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS 

Chapter 1: Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages 

Chapter 2: Analyzing the External Environment of the Firm 

Chapter 3: Assessing the Internal Environment of the Firm 

Chapter 4: Recognizing a Firm’s Intellectual Assets: Moving beyond a Firm’s Tangible Resources 

PART 2: STRATEGIC FORMULATION 

Chapter 5: Business-Level Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantages 

Chapter 6: Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value through Diversification 

Chapter 7: International Strategy: Creating Value in Global Markets

Chapter 8: Entrepreneurial Strategy and Competitive Dynamics 

PART 3: STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION 

Chapter 9: Strategic Control and Corporate Governance 

Chapter 10: Creating Effective Organizational Designs 

Chapter 11: Strategic Leadership: Creating a Learning Organization and an Ethical Organization 

Chapter 12: Managing Innovation and Fostering Corporate Entrepreneurship 

PART 4: CASE ANALYSIS 

Chapter 13: Analyzing Strategic Management Cases

Cases: 

1. Robin Hood

2. The Global Casino Industry: Emerging from the Pandemic 

3. Theorybridge.com: Making Academic Research Relevant to Practitioners 

4. Dirty Laundry in the Fast Fashion Industry: H&M's Dilemma 

5. Pocket Radar: The Disruptive Innovator in the Sports Radar Gun Market 

6. Haribo and the Gummi Bear Business: A Sticky Situation 

7. Coinbase Global Inc. 

8. Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton 

9. Southwest Airlines: Can “Luv” Be a Competitive Advantage? 

10. JetBlue in 2022 

11. Emirates Airline 

12. Ford: Traveling Two Roads 

13. General Motors: Plugging In? 

14. Lime: Is E-Bike Sharing the Next Uber? 

15. WW in 2022: Can Weight Watchers Shape Up? 

16. The Boston Beer Company: Competition is Brewing   

17. Heineken 

18. Tata Starbucks: A New Brew for India? 

19. Nintendo: Could the Switch Turn on Gamers? 

20. Apple Inc.: Limits to Growth? 

21. Samsung Electronics 

22. Zynga: Is the Game Over?  

23. Flipkart in the Indian E-Commerce Market 

24. eBay: Still Misunderstood 

25. Alibaba Group: Rivals at the Gate? 

26. Venmo: Better than Cash? 

27. Johnson & Johnson 

28. Procter & Gamble 

29. McDonald's in 2022 

30. United Way Worldwide 

31. Campbell: How to Keep the Soup Simmering 

32. World Wrestling Entertainment in 2022 

33. Microfinance: Going Global . . . and Going Public? 34. Greenwood Resources: A Global Sustainable Venture in the Making 

35. Kickstarter and Crowdfunding 2022 

36. QVC in 2022 

37. Cirque du Soleil in 2022 

38. Walt Disney Company 

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Gregory Dess

Gregory G. Dess is the Andrew R. Cecil Endowed Chair in Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. His primary research interests are in strategic management, organization environment relationships, and knowledge management. He has published numerous articles on these subjects in both academic and practitioner-oriented journals. He also serves on the editorial boards of a wide range of practitioner-oriented and academic journals. In August 2000, he was inducted into the Academy of Management Journal  Hall of Fame as one of its charter members. Professor Dess has conducted executive programs in the United States, Europe, Africa, Hong Kong, and Australia. During 1994 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Oporto, Portugal. In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern (Switzerland). He received his PhD in business administration from the University of Washington (Seattle) and a BIE degree from Georgia Tech.

Gerry McNamara

Gerry McNamara is the McConnell Broad Professor of Management at Michigan State University. His research draws on cognitive and behavioral theories to explain strategic phenomena, including strategic decision making, mergers and acquisitions, and environmental assessments. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal , the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes , the Journal of Applied Psychology , Personnel Psychology , the Journal of Management , and the Journal of International Business Studies . Gerry’s research has also been abstracted in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek , the Economist , and Financial Week . He has served as an associate editor for the Strategic Management Journal and the Academy of Management Journal . He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota.

Alan Eisner

Alan B. Eisner is Dean of the School of Management and Professor of Management at Clark University. He received his PhD in management from the Stern School of Business, New York University. His primary research interests are in strategic management, technology management, organizational learning, and managerial decision making. He has published research articles and cases in journals such as Advances in Strategic Management, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Technology Management, American Business Review, Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management , and Global Journal of Business Pedagogy . He is the former associate editor of the Case Association’s peer-reviewed journal, The CASE Journal.

Steve Sauerwald

Steve Sauerwald is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management in the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests focus on corporate governance, strategic leadership, and stakeholder strategy. He pursues this research program in a global setting by examining how institutions surrounding domestic and international firms shape organizational outcomes. His scholarship has been published in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management , and Journal of Management Studies . His research has been covered by Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and BBC. He received his MBA and PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Texas at Dallas and a visiting scholar at Free University Berlin.

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Case Studies in Strategic Management

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Supporting Companies and Participating Managers in Case Study Presentations

Case: unu gmbh: sharing is caring—a suitable business model for e-scooter in germany.

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Case: UBS—Acquisition of Commerzbank AG as a Possible Growth Strategy

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