Strategic Management or The Economics of Health and Health Care

Strategic Management: Text and Cases

Author: Gregory G Dess

Strategic Management: Text and Cases, 4th Edition, by the prestigious authors Dess/Lumpkin/Eisner provide solid treatment of traditional topics in strategic management as well as thorough coverage of contemporary topics such as digital & internet strategies, innovation & corporate entrepreneurship, knowledge management, and intellectual assets. The text is rounded off by rich, relevant, and teachable cases. This text’s accessible writing style and wealth of new and updated illustrations, which clarify the most difficult topics, make this text the best resource for your students.

• The new case selections emphasize variety, currency, and familiar company names. The cases are up-to-date in terms of both financial data and strategic issues. This group of cases gives both instructors and students unparalleled quality and variety. Based on consistent reviewer feedback, these selections combine comprehensive and shorter length cases about well known compa nies.

Table of Contents:

Part One: Strategic Analysis
Chapter 1Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages
Chapter 2 Analyzing the External Environment of the Firm
Chapter 3 Assessing the Internal Environment of the Firm
Chapter 4 Recognizing a Firm’s Intellectual Assets: Moving beyond a Firm’s Tangible Resources

Part Two: Strategic Formulation
Chapter 5 Business-Level Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantages
Chapter 6 Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value through Diversification
Chapter 7 International Strategy: Creating Value in Global Markets
Chapter 8 Entrepreneurial Strategy and Competitive Dynamics

Part Three: Strategic Implementation
Chapter 9 Strategic Control and Corporate Governance
hapter 10 Creating Effective Organizational Designs
Chapter 11 Strategic Leadership: Creating a Learning Organization and an Ethical Organization
Chapter 12 Managing Innovation and Fostering Corporate Entrepreneurship

Part Four: Case Analysis
Chapter 13 Analyzing Strategic Management Cases
Cases
1. Robin Hood
2. Edward Marshall Boehm
3. The Skeleton in the Corporate Closet
4. The Best-Laid Incentive Plans
5. Growing for Broke
6. Crown Cork & Seal in 1989
7. Sun Life Financial
8. Automation Consulting
9. Sears/Kmart
10. Enron
11. American Red Cross in 2002 (A)
12. Whole Foods
13. QVC
14. Ann Taylor
15. United Way
16. JetBlue Airways: Is "High Touch Service" the Key Driver for JetBlue's Success?
17. Panera Bread Company
18. Southwest Airlines: From simple to complex ‘LUV’?
19.Johnson & Johnson
20. Yahoo!
21. Heineken
22. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory
23. WWE
24. Procter & Gamble
25. Casino Industry
26. Samsung
27. Claires
28. Caribou Coffee
29. eBay in Asia
30. Ap ple inc.: Taking a bite out of the competition
31. Wal-Mart: The Challenges of Dominance
32. FreshDirect
33. Nintendo
34. Reader's Digest
35. UPS AND FedEx in the Express Package Delivery Industry
36. Schoolhouse Lane Estates
37. General Motors
38. Ford Motor Company
39. Dippin' Dots Ice Cream
40. McDonald's

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The Economics of Health and Health Care

Author: Sherman Folland

This clear, step-by-step best-selling introduction to the economics of health and health care thoroughly develops and explains economic ideas and models to reflect the full spectrum of the most current health economics literature.

This book uses core economic themes as basic as supply and demand, as venerable as technology or labor issues, and as modern as the economics of information. Chapter topics include health care, health capital, information, health insurance markets, managed care, nonprofit firms, hospitals, physicians and labor, the pharmaceutical industry, government intervention and regulation, and epidemiology and economics.

Useful as a reference work for health service researchers, government specialists, and physicians and others in the health care field.

Booknews

New edition of an introduction to the economics of health and health care that develops and explains economic ideas and models and reflects the full spectrum of the most current health economics literature. In the 26 chapters, Folland (economics, Oakland U.), Allen C. Goodman (economics, Wayne State U.) and Miron Stano (economics and management, Oakland U.) provide analytic tools of economics and econometrics as applied to contemporary health issues. Topics include basic economic tools, supply and demand, information, insurance and organization of health providers, technology, labor, hospitals and nursing homes, social insurance, and policy issues and analyses. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

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Pt. I	Basic economics tools	1
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Microeconomic tools for health economics	20
Ch. 3	Statistical tools for health economics	51
Ch. 4	Economic efficiency and cost benefit analysis	68
Pt. II	Supply and demand	89
Ch. 5	The production of health	89
Ch. 6	The production, cost, and technology of health care	111	Ch. 7	Demand for health capital	137
Ch. 8	Demand and supply of health insurance	153
Ch. 9	Consumer choice and demand	176
Pt. III	Information and insurance markets	199
Ch. 10	Asymmetric information and agency	199
Ch. 11	The organization of health insurance markets	215
Ch. 12	Managed care	241
Ch. 13	Nonprofit firms	270
Pt. IV	Key players in the health care sector	294
Ch. 14	Hospitals and long-term care	294
Ch. 15	The physician's practice	313
Ch. 16	Health care labor markets and professional training	331
Ch. 17	The pharmaceutical industry	358
Pt. V	Social insurance	383
Ch. 18	Equity, efficiency, and need	383
Ch. 19	Government intervention in health care markets	407
Ch. 20	Government re gulation : principal regulatory mechanisms	430
Ch. 21	Social insurance	461
Ch. 22	Comparative health care systems and health system reform	491
Pt. VI	Special topics	525
Ch. 23	The health economics of bads	525
Ch. 24	Epidemiology and economics : HIV/AIDS in Africa	541