Essentials of Strategic Management (3rd revised United States ed)

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.