Strategic management theory: an integrated approach

"This leading strategy text presents the complexities of strategic management through up-to-date scholarship and hands-on applications. Highly respected authors Charles Hill and Gareth Jones integrate cutting-edge research on topics including corporate performance, governance, strategic leadership, technology, and business ethics through both theory and cases. Based on real-world practices and current thinking in the field, the Ninth Edition of Strategic Management features an increased emphasis on the changing global economy and its role in strategic management." -- Publisher's information.

Part I. Introduction to strategic management -- 1. Strategic leadership: managing the strategy-making process for competitive advantage -- 2. External analysis: the identification of opportunities and threats -- Part II. The nature of competitive advantage -- 3. Internal analysis: distinctive competencies, competitive advantage, and profitability -- 4. Building competitive advantage through functional-level strategy -- Part III. Strategies -- 5. Building competitive advantage through business-level strategy -- 6. Business-level strategy and the industry environment -- 7. Strategy and technology -- 8. Strategy in the global environment -- 9. Corporate-level strategy: horizontal integration, vertical integration, and strategic outsourcing -- 10. Corporate-level strategy: related and unrelated diversification -- Part IV. Implementing strategy -- 11. Corporate performance, governance, and business ethics -- 12. Implementing strategy in companies that compete in a single industry -- 13. Implementing strategy in companies that compete across industries and countries.