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For undergraduate and graduate strategic management courses.

For professors who want their students to understand the practical application of strategic management, David provides a skills-based, practitioner-oriented focus.

1. Is it important for your students to understand the practitioner side of strategy rather than a theory/research approach?

David meets the AACSB guidelines which support a practitioner approach.  Skills that are learned include: developing a vision and mission statement; performing an external audit; conducting an internal assessment; and formulating, implementing, and evaluating strategies.

1. Would your students find it helpful to have a strategic-management model that appears in every chapter?

David introduces a simple strategic-management model, which is widely used by consultants and companies, in the front cover of the book, and it is subsequently used in each chapter.

1. Are global issues, the natural environment, and e-commerce important themes in your course?

Each of these themes is examined in every chapter when discussing the concepts.

1. Do your students struggle with case analysis?

After chapter 1 there is a Cohesion Case (Google), which is revisited in every chapter, allowing students to apply the concepts learned to a familiar case. 

1. Do you have your students use the internet for assignments or research?

“Visit the Net” exercises are available online at www.prenhall.com/david or at www.strategyclub.com.  These exercises and suggested websites can enhance the students learning by providing additional materials about the concepts discussed in the book.

New To This Edition

1.  Are global issues, the natural environment, and e-commerce important themes in your course?

There are new global (pg. x), e-commerce(pg. x), and natural environment (pg. x) boxes inserted in every chapter.

1. Would you like your students to read selections about new and relevant strategic management research?

In the new edition of David, there are new current readings at the end of each chapter (pg. x).

1. Is ethics and important topic in your course?

New coverage on corporate fraud, scandals, illegalities.  Emphasizes “good ethics is good business”

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Strategic Management  [CONCEPTS]   (Management)

Next Edition(s)

• Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts, 14/E
  David
  ©2013  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 400 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132666219  |  ISBN-13: 9780132666213
  Suggested retail price: $140.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $105.00  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  For undergraduate and graduate courses in strategy.

   

  A skills-oriented, practitioner perspective on strategy, thoroughly updated with current research and concepts.

   

  In today’s economy, gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage is harder than ever. Strategic Management captures the complexity of the current business environment and delivers the latest skills and concepts with unrivaled clarity, helping students develop their own cutting-edge strategy through skill-developing exercises.

   

  The fourteenth edition explores the current global recession and shows how it has affected the business environment, providing students with up-to-date coverage in every chapter.

   

  Combine this textbook with MyManagementLab! See the hands in the air, hear the roar of discussion—be a Rock Star in the classroom. MyManagementLab makes it easier for you to be a rock star in the classroom by helping you hold students accountable for class preparation, and getting students engaged in the material through an array of relevant teaching and media resources. Visit MyManagementLab.com for more information.

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• Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts, 14/E
  David
  ©2013  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 400 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132666219  |  ISBN-13: 9780132666213
  Suggested retail price: $140.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $105.00  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  For undergraduate and graduate courses in strategy.

   

  A skills-oriented, practitioner perspective on strategy, thoroughly updated with current research and concepts.

   

  In today’s economy, gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage is harder than ever. Strategic Management captures the complexity of the current business environment and delivers the latest skills and concepts with unrivaled clarity, helping students develop their own cutting-edge strategy through skill-developing exercises.

   

  The fourteenth edition explores the current global recession and shows how it has affected the business environment, providing students with up-to-date coverage in every chapter.

   

  Combine this textbook with MyManagementLab! See the hands in the air, hear the roar of discussion—be a Rock Star in the classroom. MyManagementLab makes it easier for you to be a rock star in the classroom by helping you hold students accountable for class preparation, and getting students engaged in the material through an array of relevant teaching and media resources. Visit MyManagementLab.com for more information.

  More Info
  

• Strategic Management: A Competitive Advantage Approach, Concepts, 14/E
  David
  ©2013  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 400 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132666219  |  ISBN-13: 9780132666213
  Suggested retail price: $140.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $105.00  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  For undergraduate and graduate courses in strategy.

   

  A skills-oriented, practitioner perspective on strategy, thoroughly updated with current research and concepts.

   

  In today’s economy, gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage is harder than ever. Strategic Management captures the complexity of the current business environment and delivers the latest skills and concepts with unrivaled clarity, helping students develop their own cutting-edge strategy through skill-developing exercises.

   

  The fourteenth edition explores the current global recession and shows how it has affected the business environment, providing students with up-to-date coverage in every chapter.

   

  Combine this textbook with MyManagementLab! See the hands in the air, hear the roar of discussion—be a Rock Star in the classroom. MyManagementLab makes it easier for you to be a rock star in the classroom by helping you hold students accountable for class preparation, and getting students engaged in the material through an array of relevant teaching and media resources. Visit MyManagementLab.com for more information.

  More Info
  

• Strategic Management: Concepts, 13/E
  David
  ©2011  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 384 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136120997  |  ISBN-13: 9780136120995
  Suggested retail price: $140.00  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $105.00  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  For undergraduate and graduate courses in strategy.
  
  A skills-oriented, practitioner perspective on strategy, thoroughly updated with current research and concepts.
  
  In today’s economy, gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage is harder than ever. Strategic Management: Concepts captures the complexity of the current business environment and delivers the latest skills and concepts with unrivaled clarity, helping students develop their own cutting-edge strategy through skill-developing exercises.
  
  The thirteenth edition explores the current global recession and shows how it has affected the business environment, providing students with updated coverage of strategic-management concepts, theory, research, and techniques in every chapter.
  
  

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Author Bios

About the Author

Dr. Fred R. David is the sole author of three mainstream strategic-management textbooks: (1) Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases, (2) Strategic Management Concepts, and (3) Strategic Management Cases. These texts have been on a two-year revision cycle since 1986, when the first edition was published. They are among the best if not the best-selling strategic-management textbooks in the world and are used at more than 400 colleges and universities. Prestigious universities that have used these textbooks include Harvard University, Duke University, Carnegie-Mellon University, John Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, University of North Carolina, University of Georgia, Florida State University, San Franciso State University, and Wake Forest University.

The Concepts version of this strategic-management textbook has been translated and published in Chinese, Japanese, Pharsi, Spanish, Indonesian, Indian, Thai, and Arabic, and is widely used across Asia and South America. It is the best-selling strategic-management textbook in Mexico, China, Peru, Chile, Japan, and number two in the United States. Approximately 90,000 students read Dr. David’s textbook annually as well as thousands of businesspersons. The book has led the field of strategic management for more than a decade in providing an applications/practitioner approach to the discipline.

A native of Whiteville, North Carolina, Fred R. David received a B.S. degree in Mathematics and an MBA from Wake Forest University before being employed as a bank manager with United Carolina Bank. He received a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina where he majored in Management. Currently, the TranSouth Professor of Strategic Management at Francis Marion University (FMU) in Florence, South Carolina, Dr. David has also taught at Auburn University, Mississippi State University, East Carolina University, the University of South Carolina, and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He is the author of 150 referred publications, including 39 journal articles, 53 Proceedings publications, and 58 business policy cases. David has articles published in such journals as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Psychology, Long Range Planning, and Advanced Management Journal.  He serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Advanced Management Journal.

Dr. David has received a Lifetime Honorary Professorship Award from the Universidad Ricardo Palma in Lima, Peru. He delivered the keynote speech at the twenty-first Annual Latin American Congress on Strategy hosted by the Centrum School of Business in Peru. Dr. David recently delivered an eight-hour Strategic Planning Workshop to the faculty at Pontificia Universidad Catolica Del in Lima, Peru, and an eight-hour Case Writing/Analyzing Workshop to the faculty at Utah Valley State College in Orem, Utah. He has received numerous awards, including FMU’s Board of Trustees Research Scholar Award, and the university’s Award for Excellence in Research given annually to the best faculty researcher on campus, and the Phil Carroll Advancement of Management Award, given annually by the Society for the Advancement of Management (SAM) to a management scholar for outstanding contributions in management research.

David served for three years on the Southern Management Association’s Board of Directors Through his Web site, www.checkmateplan.com, Dr. David actively assists businesses across the country and around the world in doing strategic planning. He has developed and markets the CheckMATE Strategic Planning Software, which is an industry-leading business planning software package (www.checkmateplan.com).

eHRM: An Internet Guide to Human Resource Management
Gowan
©2001  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 49 pp  |  Instock
ISBN-10: 0130912832  |  ISBN-13: 9780130912831
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