Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases (with InfoTrac)

Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joseph Foster Chair in Business Leadership and the C. W. and Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He has authored or coauthored over 120 journal articles coauthored or coedited 25 separate books. Those books include: DOWNSCOPING: HOW TO TAME THE DIVERSIFIED FIRM (1994); MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: A GUIDE TO CREATING VALUE FOR STAKEHOLDERS (2001); HANDBOOK OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT (2001); STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP: CREATING A NEW INTEGRATED MINDSET (2002); MANAGING KNOWLEDGE FOR SUSTAINED COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE (2003); COMPETING FOR ADVANTAGE (2004); THE BLACKWELL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ENCYCLOPEDIA (2005); STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION (2005); and GREAT MINDS IN MANAGEMENT: THE PROCESS OF THEORY DEVELOPMENT (2005). He has served on the editorial review boards of multiple journals served as Consulting Editor (1988?1990) and Editor (1991?1993) of the Academy of Management Journal. He serves President Elect of the Strategic Management Society and is a past president of the Academy of Management. He received the 1996 Award for Outstanding Academic Contributions to Competitiveness and the 1999 Award for Outstanding Intellectual Contributions to Competitiveness Research from the American Society for Competitiveness. He is a Fellow in the Academy of Management and a Research Fellow in the National Entrepreneurship Consortium, and received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid for his contributions to the field. He received the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of Management.R. Duane Ireland is the author of 'Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases (with InfoTrac)', published 2006 under ISBN 9780324316940 and ISBN 0324316941.