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Chapter 1Chapter 1
The Nature of StrategicThe Nature of Strategic
ManagementManagement
Strategic Management:
Concepts and Cases. 9th
edition
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The Nature of StrategicThe Nature of Strategic
ManagementManagement
• A global perspective is a matter of
survival for businesses.
• E-commerce is a vital strategic
management tool.
• The natural environment is an important
strategic issue.
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Strategic Management AchievesStrategic Management Achieves
Organizational SuccessOrganizational Success
Process of Integrating:
– management
– marketing
– finance/accounting
– production/operations
– research and development
– computer information systems
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Three-Stage ProcessThree-Stage Process
Strategy Formulation
Strategy Implementation
Strategy Evaluation
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Ch. 1-5
Strategy Formulation
Vision & Mission
Alternative Strategies
Long-Term Objectives
Strengths & Weaknesses
Opportunities & Threats
Strategy Selection
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Strategy FormulationStrategy Formulation
Issues include:
–What new businesses to enter
–What businesses to abandon
–How to allocate resources
–Expand operations or diversify
–Enter international markets
–Merge or form joint venture
–Avoidance of hostile takeover
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Strategy Implementation
Employee Motivation
Policies
Annual Objectives
Resource Allocation
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Strategy ImplementationStrategy Implementation
Action Stage of strategic management:
–Most difficult stage
–Mobilizing employees and managers
–Interpersonal skills are critical
–Consensus on pursuing goals
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Strategy Evaluation
Performance Measurement
External Review
Internal Review
Corrective Action
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Strategy EvaluationStrategy Evaluation
Final stage of strategic management:
– All strategies subject to future modification
– Success today is no guarantee of success
tomorrow
– Success creates new and different problems
– Complacency leads to demise
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Prime Task of StrategicPrime Task of Strategic
ManagementManagement
According to Peter Drucker…
The prime task is to think through the
overall mission of a business
Ask the question:
What is our Business?
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Integrating Intuition and AnalysisIntegrating Intuition and Analysis
The strategic management process
attempts to organize quantitative and
qualitative information under
conditions of uncertainty.
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Integrating Intuition and AnalysisIntegrating Intuition and Analysis
Intuition based on:
–Past experiences
–Judgment
–Feelings
Useful for decision making
–Conditions of great uncertainty
–Conditions with little precedent
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Integrating Intuition and AnalysisIntegrating Intuition and Analysis
Intuition and judgment
–Management at all levels
–Analyses are influenced
Analytical thinking and intuitive thinking
–Complement each other
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Adaptation to ChangeAdaptation to Change
Organizations must monitor events
–On-going process
–Internal and external events
–Timely changes
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Adaptation to ChangeAdaptation to Change
Rate and magnitude of changes
–Increasing dramatically
• E-commerce
• Demographics
• Technology
• Merger-mania
–Effective Adaptation
• Long-run focus
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Adaptation to ChangeAdaptation to Change
Key strategic-management questions:
– What kind of business should we become?
– Are we in the right fields?
– Should we reshape our business?
– What new competitors are entering our
industry?
– What strategies should we pursue?
– How are our customers changing?
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Key TermsKey Terms
Strategists
– Most responsible for success or failure of an
organization
– Various job titles:
• Chief executive officer
• President
• Owner
• Chair of the Board
• Executive Director
• Entrepreneur
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Key TermsKey Terms
Vision Statement
–What do we want to become?
Mission Statement
–What is our business?
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Key TermsKey Terms
External Opportunities and Threats
– Significantly benefit or harm the organization in the
future.
– Include the following trends:
• Economic
• Social
• Cultural
• Demographic Environmental
• Political, legal, governmental
• Technological
• Competitive trends
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Key TermsKey Terms
External Opportunities and Threats
–Largely beyond the control of a single
organization.
–Basic tenet of strategic management
• Strategy formulation to:
– Take advantage of external opportunities
– Avoid or reduce impact of external threats
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Key TermsKey Terms
Environmental Scanning
–Industry Analysis
• Process of conducting research and
gathering and assimilating external
information
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Key TermsKey Terms
Internal Strengths and Weaknesses
– Controllable activities performed especially
well or poorly.
– Arise in functional areas of the business:
• Management
• Marketing
• Finance/accounting
• Production/operations
• Research & development
• Computer Information Systems
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Key TermsKey Terms
Determining Internal Factors:
–Financial ratios
–Measuring performance
–Industry averages
–Survey data
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Key TermsKey Terms
Long-term objectives:
– Mission-driven pursuit of specific results more
than one-year out.
– Essential for organizational success
• State direction
• Aid in evaluation
• Create synergy
• Focus coordination
• Basis for planning, motivating and controlling
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Key TermsKey Terms
Strategies:
– Means by which long-term objectives will be
achieved.
– May include:
• Geographic expansion, diversification
• Acquisition
• Product development, market penetration
• Retrenchment, divestiture
• Liquidation, joint venture
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Key TermsKey Terms
Annual Objectives:
– Short-term milestones that organizations must
achieve to reach long-term objectives.
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Ch. 1-28
Key TermsKey Terms
Policies:
– Means by which annual objectives will be
achieved.
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Ch. 1-29
Comprehensive Strategic Management ModelComprehensive Strategic Management Model
External
Audit
Chapter 3
Internal
Audit
Chapter 4
Long-Term
Objectives
Chapter 5
Generate,
Evaluate,
Select
Strategies
Chapter 6
Implement
Strategies:
Mgmt Issues
Chapter 7
Implement
Strategies:
Marketing,
Fin/Acct,
R&D, CIS
Chapter 8
Measure &
Evaluate
Performance
Chapter 9
Vision
&
Mission
Chapter 2
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Strategic-Management ModelStrategic-Management Model
Strategic-Management Process –
• Dynamic and Continuous
• More formal in larger organizations
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Strategic-Management ModelStrategic-Management Model
1.Identify Organization’s existing:
• Vision
• Mission
• Objectives
• Strategies
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Strategic-Management ModelStrategic-Management Model
2.Perform External Audit
3.Perform Internal Audit
4.Establish long-term objectives
5.Generate, evaluate, select strategies
6.Implement strategies
7.Measure and evaluate performance
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Benefits of StrategicBenefits of Strategic
ManagementManagement
• Proactive in shaping organization’s future
• Initiate and influence activities
• Formulate better strategies
– Systematic, logical, rational approach
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Benefits of StrategicBenefits of Strategic
ManagementManagement
• Financial benefits
– Improvement in sales
– Improvement in profitability
– Improvement in productivity
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Benefits of StrategicBenefits of Strategic
ManagementManagement
• Non-Financial benefits
– Enhanced awareness of xternal threats
– Improved understanding of competitors’
strategies
– Increased employee productivity
– Reduced resistance to change
– Understanding of performance-reward
relationships
– Enhances problem-prevention capabilities
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Benefits of StrategicBenefits of Strategic
ManagementManagement
1.Identification of opportunities
2.Objective view of management problems
3.Improved coordination and control
4.Minimizes adverse conditions and
changes
5.Decisions to better support objectives
6.Effective allocation of time and resources
7.Internal communication among personnel
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Benefits of StrategicBenefits of Strategic
ManagementManagement
8.Integration of individual behaviors
9.Clarifies individual responsibilities
10.Encourages forward thinking
11.Encourages favorable attitude toward
change
12.Discipline and formality to the
management of the business
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• Poor reward structures
• Fire-fighting
• Waste of time
• Too expensive
• Laziness
• Content with success
Why Some Firms DoWhy Some Firms Do NoNo
Strategic PlanningStrategic Planning
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• Fear of failure
• Overconfidence
• Prior bad experience
• Self-interest
• Fear of the unknown
• Suspicion
Why Some Firms DoWhy Some Firms Do NoNo
Strategic Planning (Cont’d)Strategic Planning (Cont’d)
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Business ethics defined:
–Principles of conduct within
organizations that guide decision
making and behavior.
Business Ethics and StrategicBusiness Ethics and Strategic
ManagementManagement
Fred R. David
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Good business ethics:
–prerequisite for good strategic
management
Business Ethics and StrategicBusiness Ethics and Strategic
ManagementManagement
Fred R. David
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Code of business ethics:
–Provides basis on which policies can
be devised to guide daily behavior
and decisions at the workplace
Business Ethics and StrategicBusiness Ethics and Strategic
ManagementManagement
Fred R. David
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Ch. 1-43
Internet privacy
–Emerging ethical issue of immense
proportion
Business Ethics and StrategicBusiness Ethics and Strategic
ManagementManagement
Fred R. David
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Internet and business ethics --
–38% of companies store and review
employees email messages
–Up from 15% in 1997
–54% of companies monitor
employees’ Internet connections
Business Ethics and StrategicBusiness Ethics and Strategic
ManagementManagement
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Business actions always unethical include:
• Misleading advertising
• Misleading labeling
• Environmental harm
• Poor product or service safety
• Padding expense accounts
• Insider trading
• Dumping flawed products on foreign markets
Business Ethics & StrategicBusiness Ethics & Strategic
PlanningPlanning
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Nature of Global CompetitionNature of Global Competition
Companies conduct business across
borders
International or multinational corporations
 Parent company
 Host country
• Strategy implementation more difficult
Cultural differences
 Norms, values, work ethics
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• Absorb excess capacity
• Reduce unit costs
• Spread economic risks over wider
markets
• Low-cost production facilities
• Competition may be less intense
• Reduced tariffs, lower taxes
• Economies of scale
Advantages of InternationalAdvantages of International
OperationsOperations
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• Different social, cultural demographic,
legal forces may create difficult
communication
• Weaknesses of foreign competition may
be underestimated
• Barriers to communication and effective
management of personnel
• Complications from different monetary
systems
Disadvantages of InternationalDisadvantages of International
OperationsOperations

Strategic management-concepts Fred R. David (2007)

  • 1.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-1 Chapter 1Chapter 1 The Nature of StrategicThe Nature of Strategic ManagementManagement Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases. 9th edition Fred R. David
  • 2.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-2 The Nature of StrategicThe Nature of Strategic ManagementManagement • A global perspective is a matter of survival for businesses. • E-commerce is a vital strategic management tool. • The natural environment is an important strategic issue.
  • 3.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-3 Strategic Management AchievesStrategic Management Achieves Organizational SuccessOrganizational Success Process of Integrating: – management – marketing – finance/accounting – production/operations – research and development – computer information systems
  • 4.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-4 Three-Stage ProcessThree-Stage Process Strategy Formulation Strategy Implementation Strategy Evaluation
  • 5.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-5 Strategy Formulation Vision & Mission Alternative Strategies Long-Term Objectives Strengths & Weaknesses Opportunities & Threats Strategy Selection
  • 6.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-6 Strategy FormulationStrategy Formulation Issues include: –What new businesses to enter –What businesses to abandon –How to allocate resources –Expand operations or diversify –Enter international markets –Merge or form joint venture –Avoidance of hostile takeover
  • 7.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-7 Strategy Implementation Employee Motivation Policies Annual Objectives Resource Allocation
  • 8.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-8 Strategy ImplementationStrategy Implementation Action Stage of strategic management: –Most difficult stage –Mobilizing employees and managers –Interpersonal skills are critical –Consensus on pursuing goals
  • 9.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-9 Strategy Evaluation Performance Measurement External Review Internal Review Corrective Action
  • 10.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-10 Strategy EvaluationStrategy Evaluation Final stage of strategic management: – All strategies subject to future modification – Success today is no guarantee of success tomorrow – Success creates new and different problems – Complacency leads to demise
  • 11.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-11 Prime Task of StrategicPrime Task of Strategic ManagementManagement According to Peter Drucker… The prime task is to think through the overall mission of a business Ask the question: What is our Business?
  • 12.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-12 Integrating Intuition and AnalysisIntegrating Intuition and Analysis The strategic management process attempts to organize quantitative and qualitative information under conditions of uncertainty.
  • 13.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-13 Integrating Intuition and AnalysisIntegrating Intuition and Analysis Intuition based on: –Past experiences –Judgment –Feelings Useful for decision making –Conditions of great uncertainty –Conditions with little precedent
  • 14.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-14 Integrating Intuition and AnalysisIntegrating Intuition and Analysis Intuition and judgment –Management at all levels –Analyses are influenced Analytical thinking and intuitive thinking –Complement each other
  • 15.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-15 Adaptation to ChangeAdaptation to Change Organizations must monitor events –On-going process –Internal and external events –Timely changes
  • 16.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-16 Adaptation to ChangeAdaptation to Change Rate and magnitude of changes –Increasing dramatically • E-commerce • Demographics • Technology • Merger-mania –Effective Adaptation • Long-run focus
  • 17.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-17 Adaptation to ChangeAdaptation to Change Key strategic-management questions: – What kind of business should we become? – Are we in the right fields? – Should we reshape our business? – What new competitors are entering our industry? – What strategies should we pursue? – How are our customers changing?
  • 18.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-18 Key TermsKey Terms Strategists – Most responsible for success or failure of an organization – Various job titles: • Chief executive officer • President • Owner • Chair of the Board • Executive Director • Entrepreneur
  • 19.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-19 Key TermsKey Terms Vision Statement –What do we want to become? Mission Statement –What is our business?
  • 20.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-20 Key TermsKey Terms External Opportunities and Threats – Significantly benefit or harm the organization in the future. – Include the following trends: • Economic • Social • Cultural • Demographic Environmental • Political, legal, governmental • Technological • Competitive trends
  • 21.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-21 Key TermsKey Terms External Opportunities and Threats –Largely beyond the control of a single organization. –Basic tenet of strategic management • Strategy formulation to: – Take advantage of external opportunities – Avoid or reduce impact of external threats
  • 22.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-22 Key TermsKey Terms Environmental Scanning –Industry Analysis • Process of conducting research and gathering and assimilating external information
  • 23.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-23 Key TermsKey Terms Internal Strengths and Weaknesses – Controllable activities performed especially well or poorly. – Arise in functional areas of the business: • Management • Marketing • Finance/accounting • Production/operations • Research & development • Computer Information Systems
  • 24.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-24 Key TermsKey Terms Determining Internal Factors: –Financial ratios –Measuring performance –Industry averages –Survey data
  • 25.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-25 Key TermsKey Terms Long-term objectives: – Mission-driven pursuit of specific results more than one-year out. – Essential for organizational success • State direction • Aid in evaluation • Create synergy • Focus coordination • Basis for planning, motivating and controlling
  • 26.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-26 Key TermsKey Terms Strategies: – Means by which long-term objectives will be achieved. – May include: • Geographic expansion, diversification • Acquisition • Product development, market penetration • Retrenchment, divestiture • Liquidation, joint venture
  • 27.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-27 Key TermsKey Terms Annual Objectives: – Short-term milestones that organizations must achieve to reach long-term objectives.
  • 28.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-28 Key TermsKey Terms Policies: – Means by which annual objectives will be achieved.
  • 29.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-29 Comprehensive Strategic Management ModelComprehensive Strategic Management Model External Audit Chapter 3 Internal Audit Chapter 4 Long-Term Objectives Chapter 5 Generate, Evaluate, Select Strategies Chapter 6 Implement Strategies: Mgmt Issues Chapter 7 Implement Strategies: Marketing, Fin/Acct, R&D, CIS Chapter 8 Measure & Evaluate Performance Chapter 9 Vision & Mission Chapter 2
  • 30.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-30 Strategic-Management ModelStrategic-Management Model Strategic-Management Process – • Dynamic and Continuous • More formal in larger organizations
  • 31.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-31 Strategic-Management ModelStrategic-Management Model 1.Identify Organization’s existing: • Vision • Mission • Objectives • Strategies
  • 32.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-32 Strategic-Management ModelStrategic-Management Model 2.Perform External Audit 3.Perform Internal Audit 4.Establish long-term objectives 5.Generate, evaluate, select strategies 6.Implement strategies 7.Measure and evaluate performance
  • 33.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-33 Benefits of StrategicBenefits of Strategic ManagementManagement • Proactive in shaping organization’s future • Initiate and influence activities • Formulate better strategies – Systematic, logical, rational approach
  • 34.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-34 Benefits of StrategicBenefits of Strategic ManagementManagement • Financial benefits – Improvement in sales – Improvement in profitability – Improvement in productivity
  • 35.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-35 Benefits of StrategicBenefits of Strategic ManagementManagement • Non-Financial benefits – Enhanced awareness of xternal threats – Improved understanding of competitors’ strategies – Increased employee productivity – Reduced resistance to change – Understanding of performance-reward relationships – Enhances problem-prevention capabilities
  • 36.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-36 Benefits of StrategicBenefits of Strategic ManagementManagement 1.Identification of opportunities 2.Objective view of management problems 3.Improved coordination and control 4.Minimizes adverse conditions and changes 5.Decisions to better support objectives 6.Effective allocation of time and resources 7.Internal communication among personnel
  • 37.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-37 Benefits of StrategicBenefits of Strategic ManagementManagement 8.Integration of individual behaviors 9.Clarifies individual responsibilities 10.Encourages forward thinking 11.Encourages favorable attitude toward change 12.Discipline and formality to the management of the business
  • 38.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-38 • Poor reward structures • Fire-fighting • Waste of time • Too expensive • Laziness • Content with success Why Some Firms DoWhy Some Firms Do NoNo Strategic PlanningStrategic Planning
  • 39.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-39 • Fear of failure • Overconfidence • Prior bad experience • Self-interest • Fear of the unknown • Suspicion Why Some Firms DoWhy Some Firms Do NoNo Strategic Planning (Cont’d)Strategic Planning (Cont’d)
  • 40.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-40 Business ethics defined: –Principles of conduct within organizations that guide decision making and behavior. Business Ethics and StrategicBusiness Ethics and Strategic ManagementManagement
  • 41.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-41 Good business ethics: –prerequisite for good strategic management Business Ethics and StrategicBusiness Ethics and Strategic ManagementManagement
  • 42.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-42 Code of business ethics: –Provides basis on which policies can be devised to guide daily behavior and decisions at the workplace Business Ethics and StrategicBusiness Ethics and Strategic ManagementManagement
  • 43.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-43 Internet privacy –Emerging ethical issue of immense proportion Business Ethics and StrategicBusiness Ethics and Strategic ManagementManagement
  • 44.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-44 Internet and business ethics -- –38% of companies store and review employees email messages –Up from 15% in 1997 –54% of companies monitor employees’ Internet connections Business Ethics and StrategicBusiness Ethics and Strategic ManagementManagement
  • 45.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-45 Business actions always unethical include: • Misleading advertising • Misleading labeling • Environmental harm • Poor product or service safety • Padding expense accounts • Insider trading • Dumping flawed products on foreign markets Business Ethics & StrategicBusiness Ethics & Strategic PlanningPlanning
  • 46.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-46 Nature of Global CompetitionNature of Global Competition Companies conduct business across borders International or multinational corporations  Parent company  Host country • Strategy implementation more difficult Cultural differences  Norms, values, work ethics
  • 47.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-47 • Absorb excess capacity • Reduce unit costs • Spread economic risks over wider markets • Low-cost production facilities • Competition may be less intense • Reduced tariffs, lower taxes • Economies of scale Advantages of InternationalAdvantages of International OperationsOperations
  • 48.
    Fred R. David PrenticeHall Ch. 1-48 • Different social, cultural demographic, legal forces may create difficult communication • Weaknesses of foreign competition may be underestimated • Barriers to communication and effective management of personnel • Complications from different monetary systems Disadvantages of InternationalDisadvantages of International OperationsOperations