Strategic Management in a Hostile Environment: Lessons from the Tobacco Industry
This study focuses on fifty years of evolution in the tobacco industry from the vantage point of the strategic actions taken by its member firms in response to the anti-smoking environment. It details the growth of the industry from a collection of old-style single-brand companies to its modern status as a strategic group of diversified multi-brand competitors. The work of management guru Michael Porter provides the framework for the study. The strategic choices made by the six companies are examined in light of Porter's management theories by focusing on the firms' attempts at both product and market diversification. The book is a timely and instructive overview of an industry successfully operating in an increasingly hostile business and social environment.
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Strategic Management in a Hostile Environment: Lessons from the Tobacco Industry
This study focuses on fifty years of evolution in the tobacco industry from the vantage point of the strategic actions taken by its member firms in response to the anti-smoking environment. It details the growth of the industry from a collection of old-style single-brand companies to its modern status as a strategic group of diversified multi-brand competitors. The work of management guru Michael Porter provides the framework for the study. The strategic choices made by the six companies are examined in light of Porter's management theories by focusing on the firms' attempts at both product and market diversification. The book is a timely and instructive overview of an industry successfully operating in an increasingly hostile business and social environment.
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Strategic Management in a Hostile Environment: Lessons from the Tobacco Industry

Strategic Management in a Hostile Environment: Lessons from the Tobacco Industry

by Raymond M. Jones
Strategic Management in a Hostile Environment: Lessons from the Tobacco Industry

Strategic Management in a Hostile Environment: Lessons from the Tobacco Industry

by Raymond M. Jones

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Overview

This study focuses on fifty years of evolution in the tobacco industry from the vantage point of the strategic actions taken by its member firms in response to the anti-smoking environment. It details the growth of the industry from a collection of old-style single-brand companies to its modern status as a strategic group of diversified multi-brand competitors. The work of management guru Michael Porter provides the framework for the study. The strategic choices made by the six companies are examined in light of Porter's management theories by focusing on the firms' attempts at both product and market diversification. The book is a timely and instructive overview of an industry successfully operating in an increasingly hostile business and social environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781567201581
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/28/1997
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

RAYMOND M. JONES is Assistant Professor of Strategic and Organizational Studies at The Sellinger School of Business, Loyola College. Professor Jones has held executive positions with Occidental Petroleum and has served on the boards of numerous U.S. and international corporations.

Table of Contents

Overview
The Smoking and Health Issue
Industry Evolution in Response to the Smoking and Health Issue
Theory and Hypotheses for Individual Firm's Strategic Choices
Hypotheses Tested by Individual Firm's Actual Strategic Choices
Analysis and Conclusions
Appendix: Smokeless Tobacco
Bibliography
Index

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