Strategic Management
Theory and Practice

Fourth Edition

John A. Parnell - University of North Carolina, Pembroke

Now published by SAGE!

January 2013 | 664 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Balancing theory with practice, this fully updated fourth edition of John A. Parnell’s acclaimed text continues to provide detailed, accessible coverage of the strategic management field. Taking a global perspective, the text addresses concepts sequentially, from external and internal analysis to strategy formulation, strategy execution, and strategic control. To help readers build their analytic skills as they master course concepts, Parnell aligns each chapter’s key concepts with 25 case analysis steps. Current examples and high interest cases, largely drawn from The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, illustrate the key role of strategic management in the United States and around the world. Ideal for the capstone strategic management course, Strategic Management is appropriate for a range of undergraduate and graduate courses.

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Preface

About the Author

1. Fundamentals of Strategic Management

2. Industry Competition

3. The External Environment: Political-Legal and Economic Forces

4. The External Environment: Social and Technological Forces

5. The Organization: Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

6. Corporate-Level Strategies

7. Business Unit Strategies

8. Functional Strategies

9. Strategy Formulation

10. Strategy Execution: Structure

11. Strategy Execution: Strategic Change, Culture, and Leadership

12. Strategic Control and Crisis Management

Appendix

Case Analysis

Real-Time Cases

Traditional Cases

Glossary

Index

Well written

Professor David Fitzgerald

MASY, New York Univ Sch Cont Ed/Prof

February 9, 2015

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Very good book.
Extremely useful boom for the students - with the sections broken down clearly.

Mr Stuart Priestley

Sport, Myerscough College

February 3, 2015

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Text is a great book for students to get good information and have cases to work with.

Professor Ted J Takamura

Business Administration , Eastern Oregon University

January 29, 2015

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What we have been waiting for. A well written and well developed book, ordered for our library as a restricted - this will be never be on the shelf.

Mr Brian Boag

Faculty of Education,Health & Sciences, Derby University

May 7, 2014

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Comprehensive and thorough textbook with solid ethics and CSR material.

Professor Denise Frizzell

School of Continuing Studies, Dean College

January 21, 2014

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current and comprehensive.....

Professor CARL NELSON

Management Dept, Polytechnic University

July 27, 2013

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Key features

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

New coverage of technology, especially the Internet, illustrates technology's emerging role as both an external force and an internal component in strategy.
Updated and expanded coverage of ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) features additional material on agency theory and the CSR debate.
More than 10 new cases and 10 new Business + Strategy readings provide advanced and detailed discussions of chapter topics.
New and expanded coverage of the resource-based view (RBV) now includes more discussion on strategic capabilities.
An expanded strategic choice section (i.e., the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) and SW/OT matrix) now includes coverage of the SLSC matrix.
A wealth of additional examples gleaned from The Wall Street Journal and other sources bring the book completely up to date.

KEY FEATURES:

Global issues are covered in each chapter, discussing emerging nations and the realities of strategic management in today's global environment.
Coverage of the case analysis approach is integrated throughout the text, rather than relegated to a chapter at the end, allowing students to build their case analysis skills one step at a time.
30 brief Real-time Cases and 12 Traditional Cases feature small, private, and international enterprises representing a variety of industries.
"Strategy at Work" boxes provide detailed, real-world examples that illustrate text concepts, demonstrating the connection between theory and practice.
Coverage of crisis management, technology, and ethics give readers a strong grounding in these important, yet often overlooked topics.
Case Challenge Questions, Review Questions, Exercises, and Practice Quizzes allow students to think critically and apply new concepts.

Although the fourth edition features the same strategic management model presented in the third edition, a number of changes have been made. The integration of new concepts and the enhancement of existing ones can be seen throughout the chapters, including a large number of global strategy references and a chapter devoted entirely to a perspective on the organization based on ethics and social responsibility. Specifically, key changes to the fourth edition include:

• The coverage of ethics and social responsibility has been expanded and integrated with other topics related to organizational direction in chapter 5.

• Coverage of the external environment has been expanded into two chapters. Chapter 3 explores political, legal, and economic forces while Chapter 4 discusses social and technological forces.

• A large number of recent examples have been added. Many of these address the effects of social, technological and other external forces on firm performance. Others highlight the success and failure of specific firms.

• A new section on Emerging Trends in Chapter 12 integrates key topics in the text along the themes of global competitiveness, the Internet, sustainability, strategic complexity, and crisis management.

• This edition features 11 new traditional cases. Real-time cases have been updated as well.

• References have been completely updated and a large number of new global references have been added to this edition.

• The online student research page has been updated and expanded to provide practical assistance for students conducting case research.