Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization explains how firms achieve strategic competitiveness, emphasizing integration of resources and capabilities to obtain a sustained competitive advantage. The text uniquely focuses the strategic management process on the outcome and integrates the resource-based view of the firm with the more traditional I/O model. The authors capture the global business environment through their thoughtful presentation of global issues and examples. The hot topics of corporate governance, TQM, core competencies, strategic alliances, corporate entrepreneurship are covered among others. This text is in four-color and also available in an AIE, concepts split or a cases split.