Strategic Management: Strategic Managment Gregory G. Dess,
University of Texas at Dallas G.T. Lumpkin,
University of Illinois--Chicago
Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages
Chapter ObjectivesChapter 1
After reading this chapter, you should have a good understanding of:
- The definition of strategic management and its four key attributes.
- The strategic management process and its three interrelated and principal activities.
- Why stakeholder management is so critical in the strategic management process and how "symbiosis" can be achieved among an organization’s stakeholders.
- The key environmental forces that are creating more unpredictable change and requiring greater empowerment throughout the organization.
- How an awareness of a hierarchy of strategic goals can help an organization achieve coherence in its strategic direction.
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