Strategic Management and Business Policy: Globalization, Innovation and Sustainability, Global Edition -- (Perpetual Access)

For strategic management and business policy courses. Using a strategic management model to learn and apply key concepts Picking up where popular previous editions left off, Strategic Management and Business Policy further sharpens and modernizes this text's approach. It teaches strategy with an emphasis on globalization, innovation and sustainability. And educates students about strategic concepts they need to know as they face the issues that all organizations must build upon to push their businesses forward.

With new cases, vignettes, examples and statistics in the 16th Edition, students get an extraordinarily well-researched and practically crafted lesson.

Auteur

Charles E. Bamford, PhD (University of Tennessee), MBA (Virginia Tech), and BS (University of Virginia). Chuck worked in industry for 12 years prior to pursuing his PhD. His last position was as the Manager of Business Analysis (Mergers & Acquisitions, Dispositions, and Business Consulting) for Dominion Bankshares Corporation (now Wells Fargo). He is an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at Duke University (Fuqua) where he teaches in both the MBA and EMBA programs. He was previously a professor at the University of Notre Dame, University of Richmond, Texas Christian University, and Tulane University among others. He has been honored with 22 Professor of the Year Awards. He was named a Noble Foundation Fellow in Teaching Excellence and a Poets & Quants EMBA Favorite Professor.

In 2013, Chuck founded Bamford Associates, LLC on a full-time basis. He has worked with tens of thousands of managers with organizations in more than 20 countries in the development of implementable strategic plans and an entrepreneurial orientation to growth.

His research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Strategies, Journal of Technology Transfer, and Journal of Small Business Management, among others. Chuck has co-authored 5 other books including the popular press book The Strategy Mindset 2.0 and the fiction novel Some Things Are Never Forgiven.

Alan N. Hoffman, MBA, DBA (Indiana University), is Professor Emeritus of Strategic Management at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He is the former Director of the MBA Program at Bentley University. He served as the course coordinator and Visiting Professor of Strategic Management for the Global Strategy course in the OneMBA Program at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is also the owner of Dr. Alan N. Hoffman Investment Management, founded in 1995. His major areas of interest include strategic management, global competition, investment strategy, design thinking, and technology. Professor Hoffman is coauthor of The Strategic Management Casebook and Skill Builder textbook (with Hugh O'Neill). His academic publications have appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Business Research, and Business Horizons. He has authored more than 40 strategic management cases, including The Boston YWCA, Ryka Inc., Liz Claiborne, Ben & Jerry's, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Palm Inc., Handspring, eBay, AOL/Time Warner, McAfee, Apple Computer, TiVo Inc., Wynn Resorts, TomTom, Blue Nile, GE, Amazon, Netflix, Delta Airlines, A123, Tesla Motors, Chipotle, Staples, Target, Sonic Restaurants, Harley Davidson, and Whole Foods Market. He is the recipient of the 2004 Bentley University Teaching Innovation Award for his course: "The Organizational Life Cycle: The Boston Beer Company Brewers of Samuel Adams Lager Beer." He taught strategic management in many executive programs and also taught business to artists at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Thomas L. Wheelen (1935 to 2011), DBA, MBA, BS Cum Laude (George Washington University, Babson College, and Boston College, respectively), College, MBA (1961); Boston College, BS cum laude (1957). Teaching Experience: Visiting Professor for Trinity College, University of Dublin (Fall 1999); University of South Florida, Professor of Strategic Management (1983 to 2008); University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce; Ralph A. Beeton Professor of Free Enterprise (1981 to 1985); Professor (1974 to 1981); Associate Professor (1971 to 1974); and Assistant Professor (1968 to 1971); Visiting Professor, University of Arizona (1979 to 1980) and Northeastern University (Summer 1975, 1977 and 1979). Academic, Industry, and Military Experience: University of Virginia College of Continuing Education: (1) Coordinator for Business Education (1978 to 1983, 1971 to 1976) approved all undergraduate courses offered at seven Regional Centers and approved faculty; (2) Liaison Faculty and Consultant to the National Academy of the FBI Academy (1972 to 1983) and; (3) developed, sold, and conducted over 200 seminars for local, state, and national governments, and companies for the McIntire School of Commerce and Continuing Education. General Electric Company: various management positions (1961 to 1965); US Navy Supply Corps (SC), Lt. (SC) USNR, assistant supply officer aboard nuclear support tender (1957 to 1960). Publications: (1) Monograph, An Assessment of Undergraduate Business Education in the United States (with J. D. Hunger), 1980; (2) Books: 60 books published; 14 books translated into 8 and languages (Arabic, Bahasa-Indonesian, Chinese, Chinese Simplified, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Thai); (3) Books: co-author with J. D. Hunger on 5 active books: Strategic Management and Business Policy, 10th edition (2006); Cases in Strategic Management and Business Policy, 10th edition (2006); Concepts in Strategic Management and Business Policy, 10th edition (2006); Strategic Management and Business Policy, 10th edition; International Edition (2006); and Essentials of Strategic Management, 3rd edition (2003); (4) Co-editor: Developments in Information Systems (1974) and Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector (1977); and (5) Co-developer of software: STrategic Financial ANalyzer (ST. FAN) (1993, 1990, 1989 different versions); (6) Articles: authored over 40 articles that have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Management, Business Quarterly, Personnel Journal, SAM Advanced Management Journal, Journal of Retailing, International Journal of Management, and the Handbook of Business Strategy; (6) Cases: have about 280 cases appearing in over 83 text and case books, as well as the Business Case Journal, Journal of Management Case Studies, International Journal of Case Studies and Research, and the Case Research Journal. Awards: (1) Fellow elected by the Society for Advancement of Management in 2002; (2) Fellow elected by the North American Case Research Association in 2000; (3) Fellow elected by the Text and Academic Authors Association in 2000; (4) the 1999 Phil Carroll Advancement of Management Award in Strategic Management from the Society for Advancement of Management; (5) 1999 McGuffey Award for Excellence and Longevity for Strategic Management and Business Policy, 6th edition, from the Text and Academic Authors Association; (6) 1996/97 Teaching Incentive Program Award for teaching undergraduate strategic management; (7) Fulbright, 1996 to 1997, to Ireland but had to turn it down; (8) Endowed Chair, Ralph A. Beeton Professor, at University of Virginia (1981 to 1985); (9) a Sesquicentennial Associateship research grant from the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia, 1979 to 1980; (10) Small Business Administration (Small Business Institute), supervised undergraduate team that won District, Regional III, and Honorable Mention Awards; and (11) awards for 2 articles. Associations: Dr. Wheelen served on the Board of Directors of the Adhia Mutual Fund, the Society for Advancement of Management, and on the Editorial B…