STRATEGIZE!, 4e, International Edition allows you to try out the strategy models and concepts and get feedback regarding your understanding and application of strategic management theory. The book presents a number of experiential exercises and projects for use in and out of class. Because the exercises include thought, action, and feedback-assessment components, they promote an understanding of strategic management through comprehensive active learning. All exercises and scenarios have been thoroughly updated to provide accurate and relevant information that ensure consistency with changing strategic management concepts.

Author Biography

C. Gopinath is Chair of the Strategy and International Business Department and Associate Professor at the Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, Boston, USA. He holds a BA from the University of Madras, MA from Delhi University, P.G.D.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research spans turnaround strategies, corporate strategy and governance, ethics, pedagogy, and comparative management, and have appeared in several journals including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Education, Management International Review, and Business and Society Review. His books include: Globalization: A multidimensional system, Sage, 2008; Strategize!Experiential exercises in strategic management 2e. (with J. Siciliano), Cengage/Southwestern, 2005, and Managing in a globalized world, ICFAI University Press, 2003. His biweekly column on management issues appears in the Business Line, an Indian business daily. Dr. Julie Siciliano, Dean of the School of Business and Professor of Management at Western New England University, holds B.S.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Western New England University and a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research focuses on board of director involvement in strategic management, the relationship between strategic planning and organizational performance, and the use of strategy scorecards for tracking strategy implementation progress. Her work has been published in Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Organization Management Journal, Journal of General Management, Journal of Management Education, Journal of Education for Business, and Business Horizons. She is author of the Board's Role in the Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations (Garland Publishing) and is co-author of Strategize! Experiential Exercises in Strategic Management, 3rd ed. (Cengage Publishing), Management: Responsibility for Performance (McGraw-Hill) and Sport Management (South-Western College Publishing and Elsevier Publishers). Her research has been funded by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation through Yale University's Program on Nonprofit Organization, the Filene Institute through the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and from the Institute of North American Trade and Economics at the University of Massachusetts. Before entering academia, Dr. Siciliano held marketing management positions at Worthington Compressors, Inc., in West Springfield, MA, and in Buffalo, NY.