Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization: Concepts and Cases

Volberda, Morgan and Reinmoeller have joined with Hitt, Ireland and Hoskisson to develop a truly landmark strategic management textbook that is ideally suited for courses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as other global markets. With a new process perspective to supplement the text?s trademark integrated approach, Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization provides the most comprehensive and thorough coverage of strategic management now available in the market. Whilst maintaining the strengths and hallmark features of the original work, this new strategy text has been specially prepared to match the modern EMEA curriculum with boosted coverage of implementation issues, analysis of how firms use strategic management tools, techniques and concepts, a balanced emphasis on economics and resource-based perspectives and expanded coverage of comparative governance and organizational renewal.

Henk W. Volberda is Professor of Strategic Management and Business Policy and Director Knowledge Transfer at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University where he previously served as Chair of the Department of Strategic Management and as Vice-Dean of the Business School. He is director of the Erasmus Strategic Renewal Centre (ESR) and Fellow and Director of the Strategy Research Program of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). He is also Chairman of the Executive Board and Scientific Director of the top institute INSCOPE: Research for Innovation, and Board member of the Netherlands Institute for Social Innovation (NCSI). Moreover, he is Vice-President of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and Chair of the Interest Group Strategic Management.

Robert E. Morgan is holds the Sir Julian Hodge Chair and is Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He has been Visiting Scholar at INSEAD and Visiting Professor at the ALBA Graduate School of Business. Having published more than one hundred scholarly articles in marketing, his recent research focuses on mainstream strategy and the marketing and strategy interface. From this research articles from his: capabilities-based projects have appeared in the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Research and Long Range Planning; international entrepreneurship projects have appeared in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and the Journal of International Marketing; and, organizational learning projects have appeared in the Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management and Industrial Marketing Management. He is the recipient of many research distinctions and excellence awards for his management writing and teaching. He serves on the Editorial Review Boards of six international journals and was, until recently, Co-Editor of International Marketing Review. Rob Morgan has been engaged as a Special UK Government Advisor since 1997 drawing upon his research expertise in international entrepreneurship. He has conducted extensive government advisory work ranging from the carrying out of tailored primary research activities through to project impact, evaluation and assessment of policy initiatives.

Patrick Reinmoeller is Professor of Strategic Management at Cranfield University's Cranfield School of Management. As Visiting Professor at ICS and IIR, Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo), LIUC University Castellanza (Italy) and St. Gallen University (Switzerland) he has lead workshops with practitioners, graduate students and PhD seminars. Dr. Reinmoeller is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, International Journal of Strategic Change Management. He reviews for Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Organization Studies, MIT Sloan Management, Journal of Management Studies, and other leading journals, and he has won reviewer awards at the Academy of Management. He is active in executive education and consulting in the areas of strategy development, implementation, and innovation. He has worked with organizations such as Atos Origin, GSK Biologicals, IAEA, KPN, Schlumberger, Philips and others.

Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He has more than 260 publications including 26 co-authored or co-edited books. He has been recognized as one of the ten most cited scholars in management over a 25-year period in an article published in the 2008 volume of the Journal of Management. His books include those focused on downscoping, mergers and acquisitions as well as COMPETING FOR ADVANTAGE, 2E (South-Western, 2008); and UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS STRATEGY, 2E (South-Western Cengage Learning, 2009). He is co-editor of numerous management, organization, strategy and development books. He has served on the editorial review boards of multiple journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, and Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences. In addition, he has served as Consulting Editor and Editor of the Academy of Management Journal. He is currently a co-editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. He is the current past president of the Strategic Management Society and is a past president of the Academy of Management. He is a Fellow in the Academy of Management and in the Strategic Management Society. He received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and is an Honorary Professor and Honorary Dean at Xi?an Jiao Tong University. He has been acknowledged with several awards for his scholarly research and he received the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of Management. He has received best paper awards for articles published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, and Journal of Management.

R. Duane Ireland is Distinguished Professor and the Foreman R. and Ruby S. Bennett Chair in Business at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, where he previously served as head of the management department. He teaches strategic management courses to undergraduate, masters, doctoral, and executive students. He has more than 175 publications, including more than a dozen books. His research on diversification, corporate entrepreneurship, and strategic entrepreneurship has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies and others. He has served on editorial review boards for the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Business Strategy, European Management Journal and others. He is current editor of the Academy of Management Journal. He has completed editorial terms for Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. He has co-edited special issues of Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Business Venturing, and Organizational Research Methods and others. He received awards for the best article published in Academy of Management Executive and Academy of Management Journal. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Scholar. He served a three-year term as Representative-at-Large for the Academy of Management?s Board of Governors. He received the Award for Outstanding Intellectual Contributions to Competitiveness Research from the American Society for Competitiveness and the USASBE Scholar in Corporate Entrepreneurship Award.