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Examine strategic management with the market-leading book that sets the standard as today's most intellectually rich, but practical analysis of strategic management. Written by award-winning instructors and prominent management scholars, Hitt/Ireland/Hoskisson/Harrison's STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, 14E incorporates cutting-edge research and examples from more than 600 companies. This edition combines a classic industrial organization model with a resource-based view of the firm and a stakeholder perspective to demonstrate how businesses establish competitive advantages in the global market. You study how firms govern themselves, formulate and implement strategies that create value for stakeholders, use strategic alliances to enhance global competitiveness and meld strategic management and entrepreneurial behaviors for winning growth strategies. MindTap and Cengage Infuse online resources are also available to help you excel as a strategic leader.

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This new volume in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management volume set: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship, especially commissioned for the second edition from editors Michael A. Hitt and R. Duane Ireland, charts the key concepts and frameworks in the expanding field of Entrepreneurship. A brand new, state-of-the-art volume in the growing field of Entrepreneurship; Features 90 important entrepreneurship concepts written by 110 international contributors; Charts the key concepts and frameworks of the field, covering: 'creative destruction'; competitive dynamics; real options; social capital; corporate entrepreneurship; risk management; franchising; succession planning; location effects; spinoffs; and product innovation.

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Examine strategic management with the market-leading book that sets the standard as today's most intellectually rich, practical analysis of strategic management. Written by prominent management scholars and award-winning instructors, Hitt/Ireland/Hoskisson's STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, 13E incorporates cutting-edge research and new examples from more than 600 companies to reveal how firms effectively use the strategic management process. This edition combines a classic industrial organization model with a resource-based view of the firm to demonstrate how businesses establish competitive advantages and create value for stakeholders in the global marketplace. You study how firms govern themselves, the value of strategic alliances to global companies and the value firms create by melding strategic management and entrepreneurial behaviors when competing. MindTap online learning solution is also available with new real-world activities designed to help you outperform and excel as a strategic leader.

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This volume introduces a new concept - strategic entrepreneurship - which integrates the insights of entrepreneurship and strategic management. This volume describes a new concept – strategic entrepreneurship – which fuses the insights of entrepreneurship and strategic management. The editors have invited the world's finest entrepreneurship and strategic management scholars to contribute chapters on key issues that are influencing research in both fields, and to integrate findings across the two. Investigates the overlap between entrepreneurship and strategic management in the context of six distinct domains: resources and organizational learning, innovation, alliances and networks, internationalization, strategic leadership, and growth. The contributors use both traditional and new theoretical approaches in order to further the reader's understanding of wealth creation in the current business environment.

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