Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalisation,
7th Edition

Part 1: Strategic management inputs
1. Strategic management and strategic competitiveness
2. The external environment: opportunities, threats, industry competition and competitor analysis
3. The internal organisation: resources, capabilities, core competencies and competitive advantages

Part 2: Strategic actions: strategy formulation
4. Business-level strategy
5. Competitive dynamics
6. Corporate-level strategy
7. Acquisition and restructuring strategies
8. International strategy
9. Cooperative strategy

Part 3: Strategic actions: strategy implementation
10. Corporate governance
11. Organisational structure and controls
12. Strategic leadership
13. Strategic entrepreneurship

Part 4: Case studies
Introduction: A summary of the case analysis process
Case 1 JB HiFi and The Good Guys
Case 2 Australia Post
Case 3 Nyrstar
Case 4 Pfizer
Case 5 Atlassian
Case 6 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
Case 7 Crossfit
Case 8 Movie Exhibition
Case 9 Pacific Driller
Case 10 Trivago
Case 11 VW Emissions
Case 12 Otis
Case 13 Dick Smith
Online-only case study: Virgin Australia

• Dallas Hanson

  Dallas Hanson lectured in strategic management at the University of Tasmania for many years. He has wide-ranging intellectual (and scholastic) interests, including brand management, tourism, green strategy and governance. He has won teaching awards for his work in strategy and enjoys the challenge of making strategy interesting and engaging. He now advises as a strategy consultant, which continually reminds him that organisation politics matter in the world of strategy, while logic does not always win in the process of strategy implementation.

• Kim Backhouse

  Kim Backhouse has lectured in Strategic Management, law, and other business units for the past two decades in the Faculty of Business and Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania. Kim has also facilitated units in legal and risk for the Australian Institute of Company Directors and runs short courses on governance currently through the Law School at the University of Tasmania. Kim is passionate about research and teaching in strategic management and governance and enjoyed being part of Dr Hanson’s teaching team in Strategy for many years. Dr Backhouse has published in a variety of journals on governance and corporate social responsibility. She has won teaching awards for many years for her work in strategy and organisational behaviour. Dr Backhouse also works in part-time executive roles outside of the academic landscape and consults regularly to boards on complex governance issues. Kim has a current practising certificate from the Law Society of Tasmania, Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and current board member of the Governance Institute of Australia (Tas). Kim currently sits on several not-for-profit boards such as ACHAT and has been sitting on various boards for the past two decades.

• David Leaney

  David Leaney lectures in strategic management at post-graduate level at the Australian National University (ANU) and the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at the University of NSW. He also lectures in marketing and global supply chain management at post-graduate and under-graduate levels. David brings a practitioner’s perspective, fuelled by his work as a management consultant and his role as the Managing Director of IT and business strategy consultancy Strategium. David is the chair of several private company Boards in professional services and technology, and advises clients in public sector, Defence, utilities, banking, and the retail sector. He is sought as a facilitator for executive workshops and the development of corporate strategy and organisational change management. David is a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders (FIML) and a Certified Management Consultant (CMC).

• Michael A. Hitt

  Michael Hitt is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University and a Distinguished Research Fellow at Texas Christian University. Dr. Hitt received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He has co-authored or co-edited 27 books and numerous journal articles. A recent article listed him as one of the 10 most cited authors in management during a 25-year period. The Times Higher Education 2010 listed him among the top scholars in economics, finance and management based on the number of highly cited articles he has authored. A recent article in the Academy of Management Perspectives lists him as one of the top two management scholars in terms of the combined impact of his work both inside (i.e., citations in scholarly journals) and outside of academia. Dr. Hitt has served on the editorial review boards of multiple journals and is a former editor of the Academy of Management Journal and a former co-editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He is a fellow in the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of International Business. He has received honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and from Jonkoping University. He is a former president of both the Academy of Management and of the Strategic Management Society. He received awards for the best article published in the Academy of Management Executive (1999), Academy of Management Journal (2000), Journal of Management (2006), and Family Business Review (2012). In 2006, he received the Falcone Distinguished Entrepreneurship Scholar Award from Syracuse University. In 2017, he received the Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Educator from the Academy of Management. He also received Distinguished Alumnus Awards from Texas Tech University in 2018 and from the University of Colorado in 2018. In 2014-2017, Dr. Hitt was listed as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.

• R. Duane Ireland

  R. Duane Ireland is a University Distinguished Professor, holder of the Benton Cocanougher Chair in Business and the Executive Associate Dean in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. Dr. Ireland teaches strategic management courses at all levels. He has more than 200 publications, including approximately 25 books. His research, which focuses on diversification, innovation, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic entrepreneurship and the informal economy, appears in an array of journals. He has served as a member of multiple editorial review boards and is a former editor of the Academy of Management Journal. He has also been a guest editor for 12 special issues of journals. A past president of the Academy of Management, Dr. Ireland is currently a fellow of the Academy of Management, a fellow of the Strategic Management Society and a research fellow in the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers. He received awards for the best article published in Academy of Management Executive (1999), the Academy of Management Journal (2000), and the Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship (2010). In addition, he received an Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Research from Texas A&M University (2012). In 2014 and 2015, Thomson Reuters identified Dr. Ireland as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (a listing of the world’s most influential researchers). He received a Distinguished Service award from the Academy of Management in 2017 and a Distinguished Service award from the strategic management division of the Academy of Management in the same year. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Research and Scholarship from Mays Business School in 2017. In addition, The Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University, chose him as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2018.

• Robert E. Hoskisson

  Robert E. Hoskisson is the George R. Brown Emeritus Chair of Strategic Management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California-Irvine. Dr. Hoskisson's research focuses on corporate governance, acquisitions and divestitures, corporate and international diversification and cooperative strategy. He teaches courses in corporate and international strategic management, cooperative strategy and strategy consulting. He has co-authored 26 books, including recent books on business strategic and competitive advantage. Dr. Hoskisson has served on several editorial boards, including the Strategic Management Journal (Associate Editor), Academy of Management Journal (Consulting Editor), Journal of International Business Studies (Consulting Editor), Journal of Management (Associate Editor) and Organization Science. His research has appeared in more than 130 publications, including the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Perspective, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, California Management Review and the Journal of World Business. He is a fellow of the Academy of Management and charter member of the Academy of Management Journal's Hall of Fame. He is also a fellow of the Strategic Management Society and has received awards from the American Society for Competitiveness and the William G. Dyer Alumni Award from the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University. He completed three years of service as Representative-at-Large for the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management. He also served as president and served on the Executive Committee of Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society.

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