For undergraduate and graduate level strategic management courses.
Hunger/Wheelen is a concise book that covers the most important concepts and techniques in strategic management.
The third edition of Essentials of Strategic Management contains the following NEW features:
- Adds the strategic inflection point as a triggering event to initiate a strategy review.
- Adds complementors as other stakeholders to Porter's model of industry analysis.
- Provides criticism of SWOT analysis.
- Adds international entry options to the discussion of horizontal growth strategy.
- Extends a discussion of synergy in Chapter 8 with a list of six types of synergy.