Part A - The nature of strategic management

Chapter 1 - Understanding strategic management
Chapter 2 - Strategy and performance
Chapter 3 - Analysing industry competition
Chapter 4 - External environment
Chapter 5 - Strategy management analysis

Part B - Strategic business strategies

Chapter 6 - Corporate level strategies
Chapter 7 - Business unit level strategies
Chapter 8 - Functional level strategies

Part C - Implementing business strategies

Chapter 9 - Formulating strategy
Chapter 10 - Implementing strategy
Chapter 11 - Strategic control and change
Chapter 12 - Global business strategies

Appendices - Glossary of terms
Study guide and academic skills
Answer guides

Dr Laurence Dickie TC, THC, BA, BEd, Grad Dip Admin, MA (Hons), EdD is a senior International Programmes academic and is currently the Academic Director of Teaching & Learning and Research in that department of Curtin Business School.

He has extensive teaching experience at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, teaching in business, management, communications, human resource management and training and development. His current role means he is primarily concerned with the quality of teaching available from Curtin Business School staff. He provides specialist training programmes and support for individual staff members, overseas programme managers and CBS schools.

He is active in work with staff of CBS offshore partners on a wide range of teaching/learning issues and assists all overseas staff with quality assurance issues related to the preparation, presentation, delivery and feedback related to Curtin programmes.

Dr Dickie is a highly productive researcher in the Curtin Business School Divisional Office and supervises a number of local and overseas students in their doctoral studies.


Carolyn Dickie Grad Cert (Mgt), Post-Grad Dip (Mgt), MCom, Grad Cert (Tertiary Tchg), Grad Dip Ed is currently undertaking full-time PhD studies at Curtin University. Her research is focused on management and management systems.

She has a Master of Commerce (management) degree and post-graduate teaching degrees. She has extensive experience in the business world in areas as diverse as finance and operatic companies. She has been employed as a sessional lecturer with the School of Management at Curtin Business School for a significant number of years and in that time has taught in the areas of management, communication, cross-cultural communication, ethics and business. Carolyn has been engaged in teaching both onshore and offshore programmes at undergraduate and post-graduate level.

She has taught the bridging management class to overseas students for the past five years and it was as a result of being unable to find a textbook that was accessible for overseas students undertaking their first tertiary learning experience that this book was developed.