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This article focuses on the book "Strategic Management: Formulation, Implementation, and Control in a Dynamic Environment," by Abbass F. Alkhafaji. To possess a competitive advantage in today's business environment, a company should have a well-organized strategic plan in place. An organization's managers need to formulate a clear mission statement that defines its purpose and what they hope to achieve. To assess its environment, managers must study the company's internal resources such as human resources, finances and production capacities, and the external environment such as the industry it operates in, even macro-economic forces and political developments. Successful implementation of strategies requires corporate structures and corporate cultures that are aligned with the strategies. The author also discusses the strengths and weakness of the generic strategy and contingency theory models. Readers with a very limited background in business will be able to comprehend the book since the author defines terms such as return on investment, economies of scale and stakeholders.

This article presents information about the book "Multinational Strategic Management: An Integrative Entrepreneurial Context-Specific Process," by Robert J. Mockler. This book is a book of considerable scope that explains the processes that companies use to expand overseas. Multinational businesses are defined as businesses that possess service or production facilities in other countries. Companies expand overseas in a variety of ways, with wholly owned subsidiaries, joint ventures, and exporting. To illustrate the benefits of multinational expansion as well as some of his strategic concepts, Mockler describes a group of Americans, investors in a cellular phone venture in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, who, after overcoming a series of cultural and technical hurdles, achieve a return 40 times their original investment. One concept that runs throughout Mockler's study is that of time perspectives. Companies must respond to the existing market, anticipate changes that will occur over the intermediate term, and formulate long-term strategies.