This document provides a practice test for a midterm exam in an MGMT 430 organizational strategy course. It consists of 75 multiple choice questions testing concepts related to organizational vision/mission, stakeholders, culture, strategic management processes, external/internal analysis, competitive advantage, business-level strategies, and strategic implementation. The questions cover topics such as the vision/mission statement, stakeholders, shareholders, above-average returns, the strategic management process, Porter's five forces model, resources/capabilities, value chain analysis, generic business strategies of cost leadership, differentiation and focus, and strategic implementation.
This document provides an overview of business environment analysis (BEA). It explains that BEA involves analyzing internal and external factors that may impact a business. Internal factors include things like staff, products, and finances. External factors include direct influences like customers, suppliers, and competitors, as well as indirect macroenvironmental influences captured in a PEST (political, economic, social, technological) analysis. The document outlines different techniques for conducting environmental analysis, including SWOT analysis, industry analysis using Porter's Five Forces, competitor analysis using the Five P's, and answering strategic questions. The goal of BEA is to understand trends, opportunities, and threats in order to make informed strategic decisions.
This document discusses Emirates Airlines, including its background, target audience, and consumer decision process. It provides details on Emirates' founding in 1985, growth to become one of the largest airlines in the Middle East. Emirates targets high net-worth individuals, luxury consumers, and those seeking new experiences. The document examines how Emirates influences customers through its innovative entertainment, comfort, customer service, and brand loyalty programs.
This document discusses Porter's five forces model and its application to the airline industry. It analyzes the competitive forces of industry rivalry, threat of substitution, threat of new entry, bargaining power of customers and suppliers in the aviation industry. It also discusses Porter's generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation and focus and how airlines have implemented these strategies. Common mistakes in airline marketing strategies are outlined such as unclear objectives, improper diversification, overexpansion and overoptimism. Alliance strategies between airlines are also covered.
This document summarizes the key points from a presentation on inter-corporate deposits and related party transactions under Indian law. It discusses what types of loans and guarantees between holding companies and subsidiaries are allowed, and controversies around loans to directors. It also covers compliance requirements for deposits, exemptions for transactions in the ordinary course of business, and penalties for non-repayment of deposits.
This document discusses demand and elasticity of demand in the airline industry. It defines a change in demand as a shift of the entire demand curve, either right or left, as opposed to a change in quantity demanded. Demand can be elastic or inelastic depending on how responsive passengers are to price changes. Elastic demand means a given percentage change in price results in a larger percentage change in quantity demanded, while inelastic demand means a smaller percentage change in quantity demanded for a given percentage change in price. Factors like competition, distance, business vs leisure travel, and time influence how elastic demand is for air travel.
Emirates Airline was founded in 1985 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is led by Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. As of 2014, Emirates employed over 48,000 staff across various roles. The airline offers first class, business class, and economy class air travel as well as cargo shipping. Emirates operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft that service over 150 destinations globally. The airline has received several awards for its services and achievements in the aviation industry.
This document analyzes the transport industry in Australia, focusing on the airline sector. It examines the industry's PESTLE factors, market share, cost structure, key operational metrics like passenger load factors and fares, domestic air passenger movements, top Australian airports, and forecasts air passenger movements through 2025-26 for both domestic routes and capital city airports.
This document provides an overview of business environment analysis (BEA). It explains that BEA involves analyzing internal and external factors that may impact a business. Internal factors include things like staff, products, and finances. External factors include direct influences like customers, suppliers, and competitors, as well as indirect macroenvironmental influences captured in a PEST (political, economic, social, technological) analysis. The document outlines different techniques for conducting environmental analysis, including SWOT analysis, industry analysis using Porter's Five Forces, competitor analysis using the Five P's, and answering strategic questions. The goal of BEA is to understand trends, opportunities, and threats in order to make informed strategic decisions.
This document discusses Emirates Airlines, including its background, target audience, and consumer decision process. It provides details on Emirates' founding in 1985, growth to become one of the largest airlines in the Middle East. Emirates targets high net-worth individuals, luxury consumers, and those seeking new experiences. The document examines how Emirates influences customers through its innovative entertainment, comfort, customer service, and brand loyalty programs.
This document discusses Porter's five forces model and its application to the airline industry. It analyzes the competitive forces of industry rivalry, threat of substitution, threat of new entry, bargaining power of customers and suppliers in the aviation industry. It also discusses Porter's generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation and focus and how airlines have implemented these strategies. Common mistakes in airline marketing strategies are outlined such as unclear objectives, improper diversification, overexpansion and overoptimism. Alliance strategies between airlines are also covered.
This document summarizes the key points from a presentation on inter-corporate deposits and related party transactions under Indian law. It discusses what types of loans and guarantees between holding companies and subsidiaries are allowed, and controversies around loans to directors. It also covers compliance requirements for deposits, exemptions for transactions in the ordinary course of business, and penalties for non-repayment of deposits.
This document discusses demand and elasticity of demand in the airline industry. It defines a change in demand as a shift of the entire demand curve, either right or left, as opposed to a change in quantity demanded. Demand can be elastic or inelastic depending on how responsive passengers are to price changes. Elastic demand means a given percentage change in price results in a larger percentage change in quantity demanded, while inelastic demand means a smaller percentage change in quantity demanded for a given percentage change in price. Factors like competition, distance, business vs leisure travel, and time influence how elastic demand is for air travel.
Emirates Airline was founded in 1985 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is led by Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. As of 2014, Emirates employed over 48,000 staff across various roles. The airline offers first class, business class, and economy class air travel as well as cargo shipping. Emirates operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft that service over 150 destinations globally. The airline has received several awards for its services and achievements in the aviation industry.
This document analyzes the transport industry in Australia, focusing on the airline sector. It examines the industry's PESTLE factors, market share, cost structure, key operational metrics like passenger load factors and fares, domestic air passenger movements, top Australian airports, and forecasts air passenger movements through 2025-26 for both domestic routes and capital city airports.
Buddha Air is Nepal's largest domestic airline, operating around 100 flights daily. It was founded in 1996 and has flown over 13.6 million passengers. The document discusses Buddha Air's mission to be the market leader in air transportation through safety, security, and customer service. It then presents an EFE matrix analyzing opportunities and threats in the external environment, such as COVID-19, fuel prices, and competition. An IFE matrix also evaluates internal strengths like its brand and experienced staff against weaknesses such as airport facilities and flight delays. A SWOT analysis identifies expanding routes and improving customer service as recommendations.
Southwest Airlines links employee satisfaction to competitive advantage by creating value through treating employees well and focusing on "LUV" and "FUN". This creates high employee performance which improves quality and reduces costs. Employees then work to convert this value into customer and shareholder satisfaction through good training and procedures. Finally, Southwest captures value by setting low prices enabled by their low-cost position. Key to their success is focusing on human resources and giving value to employees. Competitive threats include other airlines, high fuel costs, a soft economy, and potential disasters.
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The document outlines the key aspects of an Integrity Pact, which is an agreement between government/public sector organizations and bidders for public contracts to commit that they will not engage in bribery, corruption or collusive practices during the bidding and execution of contracts. The summary is:
1. An Integrity Pact aims to establish a system of transparency and accountability in public contracting.
2. It requires bidders, vendors and public officials to declare that they will abstain from bribery and collusion, follow ethical practices, and disclose commissions and fees paid.
3. Independent external monitors are appointed to oversee implementation and address complaints of violation of the Pact.
The document discusses airport privatization in India. It notes that India has the fastest growing aviation market and outlines the history and current state of airports and aviation authorities in India. The document proposes using public-private partnerships (PPPs) to develop more than 500 operational airports in India over the next 12 years and invest $8.5 billion, as government funding is constrained. PPPs could provide modern facilities but must balance private profits with transparency and affordable costs.
The document discusses the Airport Authority of India's (AAI) opposition to privatizing airports in Kolkata and Chennai. AAI currently manages 125 airports in India. It argues that privatizing the airports will not improve infrastructure or solve traffic problems due to lack of investment. However, proponents of privatization believe it is necessary because the government has funding constraints and the current facilities are poor, leading to traffic issues. Public-private partnerships could help upgrade airports while balancing benefits for all stakeholders.
This presentation encompasses the classic case study of Southwest Airlines, USA.
Explaining why they have been so successful even in recession period.
It is a part of case-study based lectures at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Bangalore.
This document provides information on performance evaluation methods for airport baggage handlers. It discusses 12 methods: 1) Management by Objectives, 2) Critical Incident Method, 3) Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales, 4) Behavioral Observation Scales, 5) 360 Degree Feedback, 6) Checklist and Weighted Checklist Method. For each method, it provides a definition and overview, and in some cases discusses advantages, disadvantages, rating scales, or features. The document aims to inform on different approaches that can be used to appraise the performance of airport baggage handlers.
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This document discusses concepts related to analyzing a firm's external environment. It provides examples to illustrate key points:
1) Environmental scanning and competitive intelligence are important inputs for forecasting. Ted Turner saw the potential of 24-hour news before others, demonstrating perceptual acuity.
2) SWOT analysis obliges firms to identify opportunities and threats to act proactively in choosing strategies. It emphasizes matching strategies to internal strengths/weaknesses and external opportunities/threats.
3) Sociocultural trends like more women working can impact industries - increasing business clothing demand but decreasing baking product demand. Technological innovations create new industries and alter existing ones.
Jet Blue Airway: Case Analysis (Strategic Audit)Anna Osmanay
The presentation analyses a case of Jet Blue Airway. Jet Blue Airway is an airline company that operates in the United States. Background information about the company as well as a strategic audit of the company is presented. The strategic audit has to do with the internal and external analysis of the environment of the company.
JetBlue Airways was founded in 2000 by David Neeleman with a vision of providing low fares and high quality customer service. In 2008, after several leadership changes, JetBlue implemented new strategies like reducing capacity, raising fares, improving services for business travelers, and forming strategic partnerships. These strategies aligned with addressing industry challenges like high fuel costs and competition. The document discusses JetBlue's strategies and financial performance from 2003-2007, which supported replacing top management to help the company rebuild its reputation and develop innovative strategies for continued success.
This document summarizes key topics in international business ethics, including:
1) The field of business ethics approaches issues from both normative and descriptive perspectives.
2) Globalization has increased interest in business ethics due to issues like outsourcing and supply chain management.
3) Multinational companies face challenges in determining ethical standards when home and host country standards differ. Guidelines focus on respecting human rights, welfare, and justice.
4) Other issues discussed include exploiting workers through low wages, foreign bribery, and addressing cultural differences in business practices.
5 a framework for reformulating financial statementsJohn McSherry
The document discusses key concepts related to analyzing financial statements. It explains:
1) The relationship between a firm's operating and financing activities and how cash flows between these activities and capital markets.
2) How to reformulate traditional financial statements into an operating and financing framework to better analyze a firm's profitability and value generation.
3) Key metrics like return on net operating assets, return on net financial assets, and net borrowing cost that can be used to assess a firm's performance when statements are presented in the reformulated format.
This document provides an overview of Jet Airways, an Indian airline. It discusses Jet Airways' history starting in 1992, operations, fleet, financial performance, services, competitors, and SWOT analysis. Key information includes that Jet Airways is headquartered in Mumbai and operates over 370 daily flights to 68 destinations domestically and internationally. It has a fleet of 98 aircraft and earned annual revenues of Rs. 9481.5 crores in 2009-10.
This document provides an overview of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). It outlines PIA's vision to be a world-class profitable airline meeting customer expectations through excellent service, on-time performance, innovative products, and safety. It discusses PIA's corporate values, organizational culture focused on safety, human resource management practices, product portfolio including passenger and cargo operations, SWOT analysis, and marketing strategy. The document also presents PIA's plans for the future which include reducing overhead costs, improving two-way communication, hiring based on merit, and properly utilizing aircraft fleets.
Quiz 4QUIZ strategic management concepts &cases 11th edition by Fred R. David...حمد بوجرادة
The document discusses key concepts in strategic management. It provides definitions of strategic management and strategic planning, noting that strategic management refers to strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation, while strategic planning refers specifically to strategy formulation. It also lists important aspects of strategic management like establishing objectives, devising policies, allocating resources, and periodically conducting strategic meetings away from the work site to encourage creativity and candor among participants.
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Mid term (apple inc keeping the ‘i’ in innovation)Christian Tobing
This document is a case study on Apple Inc. and keeping innovation at the core of its business strategy. It discusses Apple's strategic management process, including analyzing external opportunities and threats, formulating strategies, and implementing actions to achieve competitiveness and above-average returns. The case examines how Apple continues innovating through new products and technologies to maintain its competitive advantage.
This document contains a quiz with multiple choice questions about marketing concepts like the BCG matrix, the 4 P's of marketing, consumer behavior, and branding. It also includes short answer questions about topics such as customer satisfaction, corporate social responsibility, brand equity, and the differences between international, multinational, and global companies. The quiz covers fundamental marketing principles and strategies.
Buddha Air is Nepal's largest domestic airline, operating around 100 flights daily. It was founded in 1996 and has flown over 13.6 million passengers. The document discusses Buddha Air's mission to be the market leader in air transportation through safety, security, and customer service. It then presents an EFE matrix analyzing opportunities and threats in the external environment, such as COVID-19, fuel prices, and competition. An IFE matrix also evaluates internal strengths like its brand and experienced staff against weaknesses such as airport facilities and flight delays. A SWOT analysis identifies expanding routes and improving customer service as recommendations.
Southwest Airlines links employee satisfaction to competitive advantage by creating value through treating employees well and focusing on "LUV" and "FUN". This creates high employee performance which improves quality and reduces costs. Employees then work to convert this value into customer and shareholder satisfaction through good training and procedures. Finally, Southwest captures value by setting low prices enabled by their low-cost position. Key to their success is focusing on human resources and giving value to employees. Competitive threats include other airlines, high fuel costs, a soft economy, and potential disasters.
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The document outlines the key aspects of an Integrity Pact, which is an agreement between government/public sector organizations and bidders for public contracts to commit that they will not engage in bribery, corruption or collusive practices during the bidding and execution of contracts. The summary is:
1. An Integrity Pact aims to establish a system of transparency and accountability in public contracting.
2. It requires bidders, vendors and public officials to declare that they will abstain from bribery and collusion, follow ethical practices, and disclose commissions and fees paid.
3. Independent external monitors are appointed to oversee implementation and address complaints of violation of the Pact.
The document discusses airport privatization in India. It notes that India has the fastest growing aviation market and outlines the history and current state of airports and aviation authorities in India. The document proposes using public-private partnerships (PPPs) to develop more than 500 operational airports in India over the next 12 years and invest $8.5 billion, as government funding is constrained. PPPs could provide modern facilities but must balance private profits with transparency and affordable costs.
The document discusses the Airport Authority of India's (AAI) opposition to privatizing airports in Kolkata and Chennai. AAI currently manages 125 airports in India. It argues that privatizing the airports will not improve infrastructure or solve traffic problems due to lack of investment. However, proponents of privatization believe it is necessary because the government has funding constraints and the current facilities are poor, leading to traffic issues. Public-private partnerships could help upgrade airports while balancing benefits for all stakeholders.
This presentation encompasses the classic case study of Southwest Airlines, USA.
Explaining why they have been so successful even in recession period.
It is a part of case-study based lectures at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Bangalore.
This document provides information on performance evaluation methods for airport baggage handlers. It discusses 12 methods: 1) Management by Objectives, 2) Critical Incident Method, 3) Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales, 4) Behavioral Observation Scales, 5) 360 Degree Feedback, 6) Checklist and Weighted Checklist Method. For each method, it provides a definition and overview, and in some cases discusses advantages, disadvantages, rating scales, or features. The document aims to inform on different approaches that can be used to appraise the performance of airport baggage handlers.
SWOT Analysis & Marketing Mix Of Emirates AirlineZaheer Tariq
SWOT Analysis & Marketing Mix Of Emirates Airline..
Presented & Created By Zaheer UD Din Baber ..
Student of B(H) In Computer Sciences At University Of Management & Technology Lahore..Pakistan
Strategic Management Text And Cases 9th Edition Dess Test BankMendozaMaen
This document discusses concepts related to analyzing a firm's external environment. It provides examples to illustrate key points:
1) Environmental scanning and competitive intelligence are important inputs for forecasting. Ted Turner saw the potential of 24-hour news before others, demonstrating perceptual acuity.
2) SWOT analysis obliges firms to identify opportunities and threats to act proactively in choosing strategies. It emphasizes matching strategies to internal strengths/weaknesses and external opportunities/threats.
3) Sociocultural trends like more women working can impact industries - increasing business clothing demand but decreasing baking product demand. Technological innovations create new industries and alter existing ones.
Jet Blue Airway: Case Analysis (Strategic Audit)Anna Osmanay
The presentation analyses a case of Jet Blue Airway. Jet Blue Airway is an airline company that operates in the United States. Background information about the company as well as a strategic audit of the company is presented. The strategic audit has to do with the internal and external analysis of the environment of the company.
JetBlue Airways was founded in 2000 by David Neeleman with a vision of providing low fares and high quality customer service. In 2008, after several leadership changes, JetBlue implemented new strategies like reducing capacity, raising fares, improving services for business travelers, and forming strategic partnerships. These strategies aligned with addressing industry challenges like high fuel costs and competition. The document discusses JetBlue's strategies and financial performance from 2003-2007, which supported replacing top management to help the company rebuild its reputation and develop innovative strategies for continued success.
This document summarizes key topics in international business ethics, including:
1) The field of business ethics approaches issues from both normative and descriptive perspectives.
2) Globalization has increased interest in business ethics due to issues like outsourcing and supply chain management.
3) Multinational companies face challenges in determining ethical standards when home and host country standards differ. Guidelines focus on respecting human rights, welfare, and justice.
4) Other issues discussed include exploiting workers through low wages, foreign bribery, and addressing cultural differences in business practices.
5 a framework for reformulating financial statementsJohn McSherry
The document discusses key concepts related to analyzing financial statements. It explains:
1) The relationship between a firm's operating and financing activities and how cash flows between these activities and capital markets.
2) How to reformulate traditional financial statements into an operating and financing framework to better analyze a firm's profitability and value generation.
3) Key metrics like return on net operating assets, return on net financial assets, and net borrowing cost that can be used to assess a firm's performance when statements are presented in the reformulated format.
This document provides an overview of Jet Airways, an Indian airline. It discusses Jet Airways' history starting in 1992, operations, fleet, financial performance, services, competitors, and SWOT analysis. Key information includes that Jet Airways is headquartered in Mumbai and operates over 370 daily flights to 68 destinations domestically and internationally. It has a fleet of 98 aircraft and earned annual revenues of Rs. 9481.5 crores in 2009-10.
This document provides an overview of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). It outlines PIA's vision to be a world-class profitable airline meeting customer expectations through excellent service, on-time performance, innovative products, and safety. It discusses PIA's corporate values, organizational culture focused on safety, human resource management practices, product portfolio including passenger and cargo operations, SWOT analysis, and marketing strategy. The document also presents PIA's plans for the future which include reducing overhead costs, improving two-way communication, hiring based on merit, and properly utilizing aircraft fleets.
Quiz 4QUIZ strategic management concepts &cases 11th edition by Fred R. David...حمد بوجرادة
The document discusses key concepts in strategic management. It provides definitions of strategic management and strategic planning, noting that strategic management refers to strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation, while strategic planning refers specifically to strategy formulation. It also lists important aspects of strategic management like establishing objectives, devising policies, allocating resources, and periodically conducting strategic meetings away from the work site to encourage creativity and candor among participants.
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Mid term (apple inc keeping the ‘i’ in innovation)Christian Tobing
This document is a case study on Apple Inc. and keeping innovation at the core of its business strategy. It discusses Apple's strategic management process, including analyzing external opportunities and threats, formulating strategies, and implementing actions to achieve competitiveness and above-average returns. The case examines how Apple continues innovating through new products and technologies to maintain its competitive advantage.
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Backstory: General Electric Co. decided sustainability was a business opportunity rather than a cost and
pushed into the field in 2005 with its new initiative. But the products and services weren’t only for its
customers — they first transformed GE.
Key moves: GE began looking at sustainability as part of a demographic trend, realizing that scarcity would
increase with population growth. Energy and water use, waste, carbon emissions — all would decline
among the most efficient and sustainable companies. GE saw a profitable business opportunity in helping
companies along this sustainable path to offer environmental solutions.
GE also gambled that carbon would eventually be a cost, following the implementation of previous
regulatory regimes such as limiting acid rain. Although the precise way carbon would be regulated was
unknown, as it still is, the company had little doubt that regulation would happen. Rather than wait, GE
joined a climate coalition with nongovernmental organizations to press for a cap-and-trade system to
build certainty into the future.
Within the company, GE began engaging employees to see where energy savings could be found. That
might include turning off the lights when a factory was idle or even installing a switch so that lights could
be turned off. Ecomagination sold solutions within GE, whether the project involved installing LED lights
on a factory floor, recycling water at a nuclear facility or offering combined heat and power generation
units at a plant in Australia. Within GE, managers began to be measured on how much energy savings they
had achieved.
Impact: The company so far has saved $100 million from these measures and cut its greenhouse gas
intensity — a measure of emissions against output — by 41%, according to the company’s sustainability
report. The work inside GE became a proof of concept to external customers grappling with similar issues.
Ecomagination targeted C-level executives to build this business, since most problems cut across divisions
(improving energy efficiency, for example).
So far GE has invested $4 billion in this effort, much of it in research and development. But it reaped sales
of $17 billion in 2008, up 21% from a year earlier, and is striving for $25 billion in sales in 2010.
1. Describe the 3 Strategic Management Process GE used (please use terms that we had discussed
in class).
2. Explain the need for integrating and the use of strategic management for GE (Give 3 examples).
3. Please list 5 examples of strategic management that GE either can use or already is using.
4. What is the strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation activities that GE can
potentially use to make its innovation better than what it is now (Give 3 recommendations).
5. If .
The document provides a sample multiple choice exam for an MGT 521 management course. It contains 30 multiple choice questions testing concepts related to communication, leadership, ethics, entrepreneurship, economics, human resources, strategic planning, and tactics. The questions cover topics such as logical fallacies, stakeholder analysis, SWOT analysis, job specialization, and differences between strategic and tactical planning.
This document provides a guide to the MGT 521 Final Exam with 30 multiple choice practice questions covering topics in management such as social responsibility, the balanced scorecard, sources of power, leadership theories, organizational structure, conflict management, employee turnover, and personality traits. Each question is followed by 4 possible answer choices. The guide aims to help students prepare for the final exam through practicing example exam questions and answers.
This document contains a test bank of multiple choice questions about strategic management concepts from the 13th edition of the textbook "Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization" by Michael A. Hitt. The test bank contains 40 questions testing concepts like the industrial organization model, competitive advantage, stakeholders, vision and mission statements, and the resource-based view. It is intended to help students study for an exam on strategic management principles from this textbook.
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1. Unlike leaders, managers are those who:
encourage and motivate employees to work together to achieve a common vision.
implement procedures and processes to ensure the smooth functioning of an organization.
seek innovation rather than stability in their approach to fulfill organizational aspiration
develop relationships with employees based on trust and mutual respect.
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The document provides details of a group presentation on performing an external audit. It includes the group members' names and student IDs. It then discusses the purpose and process of an external audit, including gathering information on key external factors such as economic, social, cultural, political, and technological forces. It also explains tools for external analysis such as Porter's Five Forces model and how to develop an EFE matrix to evaluate external factors that present opportunities and threats.
This document provides 30 multiple choice questions that appear to be from a final exam for an MGT 521 management course. The questions cover topics such as communication, credibility of online sources, logical reasoning, leadership, entrepreneurship, accounting, global trade, human resources, and strategic planning.
This document provides answers to 29 multiple choice questions about business concepts. The questions cover topics such as communication, credibility of sources, logical reasoning, leadership, entrepreneurship, accounting, global trade, job specialization, economics, human resource management, and strategic planning. The answers provided are single letters A, B, C, or D with no further explanation given.
This document provides answers to 29 multiple choice questions about business concepts. The questions cover topics such as communication, credibility of sources, logical reasoning, leadership, entrepreneurship, accounting, global trade, job specialization, economics, human resource management, and strategic planning. The answers provided are single letters A, B, C, or D with no further explanation given.
Winning the 2020s - The New Logic of Competition (BCG - collected by Truong B...Truong Bomi
Today’s business leaders are having to deal with multiple and complex short-term concerns, like declining growth, political uncertainty, resistance to globalization, social division, and so on. But as the 2020s approach, leaders must also look beyond today’s situation and understand at a more fundamental level what will separate the winners from the losers in the next decade. We see 5 new aspects of competition that will come to the forefront for many businesses:
1. Increasing the rate of organizational learning
2. Leveraging multi-company ecosystems
3. Spanning both the physical and digital worlds
4. Imagining and harnessing new ideas
5. Achieving resilience in the face of uncertainty
Lots of cases, such as Netflix, Google vs. Waymo, Amazon vs. Wholefoods, John Deere of the U.S; Alibaba ecosystems as the major orchestrator to Chinese transformative economy; and even Seedcom - a venture builder in Vietnam in the show. The all are proofing the new logic of competition in the new era of digitalization and mobilization.
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Companies in virtually every industry are undergoing a secular change to new, platform- based businesses. To thrive, organizations need to digitally reinvent their enterprise business
and operating models. CFO"s continue to be instrumental in providing the analytical insights to help the enterprise invest capital into new opportunities. Essential to this process is a highly collaborative, in-synch C-suite. The CFO’s newest mandate – to help steer the strategic direction
of the enterprise and do so iteratively – requires changes to their finance organizations. Startlingly, nearly half of CFOs report their own finance organizations fall short of what’s required.
This document discusses productivity and related concepts. It begins by defining productivity improvement as a continuous process achieved through technology, management, skills development, and leadership. Total factor productivity is defined as the ratio of sales to all inputs rather than the sum of partial productivities. Partial productivities measure the relationship between individual inputs and outputs. The document notes various measures of productivity and how they provide different perspectives. It also discusses concepts like benchmarking, total quality management, and business process reengineering in relation to improving productivity.
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Textbook: book - Strategy Crafting and Executing Strategy: Competitive Advantage
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1. Good strategy and good strategy execution together provide
A. a surefire guarantee for avoiding periods of weak financial performance.
B. the two best signs that a company is a true industry leader.
C. the most trustworthy signs of good management.
D. signs of a company having a superior business model.
2. Which one of the following questions is not something that company managers should consider when choosing to pursue one strategic course or directional path versus another?
A. Is the company stretching its resources too thinly by trying to compete in too many markets or segments, some of which are unprofitable?
B. Do we have a better business model than key rivals?
C. Are changing market and competitive conditions acting to enhance or weaken the company's business outlook?
D. Will our present business generate sufficient growth and profitability in the years ahead to please shareholders?
3. Business strategy, as distinct from corporate strategy, is chiefly concerned with
A. deciding what new businesses to enter, which existing businesses to get out of, and which existing business to remain in.
B. forging actions and approaches to compete successfully in a particular line of business.
C. coordinating the competitive approaches of a company's different business units.
D. making sure the strategic intent of a particular business is in step with the company's overall strategic intent and strategy.
4. Which of the following is not one of the basic reasons that a company's strategy evolves over time?
A. An ongoing need to abandon those strategy features that are no longer working well
B. The need to make regular adjustments in the company's strategic vision so employees don't become bored executing the same strategy month after month
C. The proactive efforts of company managers to fine-tune and improve one or more pieces of the strategy
D. The need to keep strategy in step with changing market conditions and changing customer needs and expectations
5. Which of the following is an integral part of the managerial process of crafting and executing strategy?
A. Setting objectives and using them as yardsticks for measuring the company's performance and progress
B. Deciding how much of the company's resources to employ in the pursuit of sustainable competitive advantage
C. Communicating the company's mission and purpose to all employees
D. Developing a proven business model
6. Which one of the following questions can be used to test the merits of one strategy over another and distinguish a winning strategy from a mediocre or losing strategy?
A. Does the company have low prices in comparison to rivals?
B. How well does the strategy fit the company's situation?
C. How good is the company's business model?
D. Is the company putting too little emphasis on behaving in an ethical and socially responsible manner.
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Training test for the midterm mgmt 430
1. Practice Test for the Midterm MGMT 430 2015
Practice Test for the Midterm - KEY
1. Organizational vision and mission serve as emotional tools for the firm, and, as such, have
little impact on firm performance.
True/False
2. Organizational stakeholders are the firm’s internal resources, capabilities, and core
competencies that are used to accomplish what may at first appear to be unattainable goals in
the competitive environment.
True/False
3. Shareholders are satisfied when return on investment has been maximized.
True/False
4. Organizational stakeholders are the firm’s internal resources, capabilities, and core
competencies that are used to accomplish what may at first appear to be unattainable goals in
the competitive environment.
True/False
5. Organizational culture refers to the core values shared by the firm’s top-level managers but
not necessarily accepted by lower-level employees who are often transitory and not
committed to the organization.
True/False
6. Above-average returns are
a. higher profits than the firm earned last year.
b. higher profits than the industry averaged over the last 10 years.
c. profits in excess of what an investor expects to earn from a historical pattern of
performance of the firm.
d. profits in excess of what an investor expects to earn from other investments with a
similar level of risk.
7. The strategic management process is
a. a set of activities that will assure a sustainable competitive advantage and above-
average returns for the firm.
b. a decision-making activity concerned with a firm’s internal resources, capabilities, and
competencies, independent of the conditions in its external environment.
c. a process directed by top-management with input from other stakeholders that seeks
to achieve above-average returns for investors through effective use of the
organization’s resources.
d. the full set of commitments, decisions, and actions required for the firm to achieve
above-average returns and strategic competitiveness.
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8. Which of the following statements about organizational knowledge is correct?
a. Knowledge is an intangible resource.
b. The importance of knowledge is increasing.
c. The value of knowledge as a proportion of shareholder value is increasing.
d. All of the above are correct.
9. Which of the following statements is most consistent under the I/O view? Performance of the
firm is most directly attributable to
a. the power of the financial market stakeholders.
b. the resources the firm possesses.
c. the profitability of the industry the firm competes in.
d. hypercompetition within the industry.
10. The five forces model suggests that an industry’s profitability is a function of all the following
factors EXCEPT
a. buyers.
b. competitive rivalry.
c. suppliers.
d. the economic environment.
11. A firm’s mission
a. is a statement of a firm’s business in which it intends to compete and the customers it
intends to serve.
b. is an internally-focused affirmation of the organization’s financial, social, and ethical
goals.
c. is mainly intended to emotionally inspire employees and other stakeholders.
d. is developed by a firm before the firm develops its vision.
12. The strategies that a company's managers pursue
a) have a major impact on the company's performance relative to its competitors.
b) have little or no effect on overall profitability.
c) typically result in higher per-unit cost of production.
d) result in significant industry structural changes.
e) none of the above.
13. An effective business model
A) involves how a company selects its customers.
B) creates value for its customers.
C) achieves and sustains a high level of profitability.
D) produces goods and services.
E) all of the above.
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14. Which of the following cognitive biases refers to the fact that decision makers who have
strong prior beliefs about the relationship between two variables tend to make decisions on
the basis of these beliefs, even when presented with evidence that their beliefs are wrong?
A) Prior hypothesis bias
B) Reasoning by analogy
C) Illusion of control
D) Escalating commitment
E) Representativeness
15. Sam Walton wanted Wal-Mart to keep costs low. Therefore, as an example to others, he drove
his own car and furnished his office with plain, steel desks. In this case, Mr. Walton was
displaying his
A) commitment.
B) vision.
C) astute use of power.
D) emotional intelligence.
E) eloquence.
16. Which of the following is not a characteristic of well-constructed goals?
A) They are precise and measurable.
B) They are the result of a group decision process.
C) They specify a time period.
D) They are challenging but realistic.
E) They address critical issues.
17. An important first step in the process of formulating a company's mission is to
A) describe the technological processor.
B) identify the customer segment served by the company.
C) answer the question, "What is our business?"
D) decide what the company will be like ten years from now.
E) evaluate the company's most recent performance.
18. The final result of successful strategic competitiveness is above-average returns.
True/False
19. External environmental analysis should be conducted annually.
True/False
20. Monitoring involves the development of a forecast of what might happen at a future point in
time.
True/False
21. Because the health of a nation’s economy affects the performance of individual firms and
industries, companies study the economic environment to identify changes, trends, and their
strategic implications.
True/False
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22. The importance that a society places on universal access to healthcare would be considered
part of the sociocultural aspect of the external environment.
True/False
23. A high threat of new entrants keeps pricing pressures on existing firms, keeping consumers
happy and making the industry attractive and profitable.
True/False
24. The main competitive factor facing companies offering traditional telephone service is the
existence of substitute products and services.
True/False
25. High exit barriers are factors that cause a company to remain in an industry even though the
profitability of doing may be questionable.
True/False
26. Generally, the stronger the competitive forces, the higher the profit potential of an industry.
True/False
27. Eavesdropping is an ethical way to obtain information about competitors’ actions.
True/False
28. To be effective, when should environmental analysis be conducted?
a. on an on-going basis
b. Quarterly
c. Annually
d. every 3-5 years
29. Which of the following identified in an analysis of the general environment is an opportunity
for an entrepreneur who wishes to open a business doing “Fitness for Life” physical
conditioning services (strength, balance, and flexibility training) in a city of 100,000 people?
a. the average age of the population in his community is high
b. the level of unemployment in his community is high
c. a chiropractor and two independent physical therapists are located in his community
d. the average education level of the population in his community is low
30. Given enough time, any firm’s competitive advantage can be imitated by its competitors.
True/False
31. In the global economy, traditional factors such as labor costs, access to financial resources
and raw materials, and protected or regulated markets are no longer sources of competitive
advantage.
True/False
32. A global mind-set is free of the assumptions of a single country, culture, or context.
True/False
33. Analysis of the firm’s internal organization examines the firm’s portfolio of resources but
excludes the bundles of heterogeneous resources and capabilities.
True/False
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34. Value is created when the firm exploits its core competencies or competitive advantages to
meet or exceed the demanding standards of global competition.
True/False
35. Creating customer value is the source of the firm’s potential to earn above-average returns.
True/False
36. In the long run, if an organization does not change it will fail.
True/False
37. A competitive advantage can be created when several resources are bundled together in a
unique fashion.
True/False
38. Compared to tangible resources, intangible resources are an inferior source of core
competencies.
True/False
39. The capacity to manage human intellect—and to convert it into useful products and services—
is fast becoming the critical executive skill of the age.
True/False
40. Every core competence is a capability and every capability is a core competence.
True/False
41. Resources and capabilities can be a source of rigidity for the firm.
True/False
42. Criticism of 3M’s reduced spending on research and development represent concerns over
what?
a. A decline in the firm’s profitability.
b. A reduction in the firms capability for innovation.
c. The substitution of innovation for efficiency.
d. The increase in expenses for downsizing resulting from this decision.
43. Internal analysis enables a firm to determine what the firm
a. can do.
b. should do.
c. will do.
d. might do.
44. The proper matching of what a firm can do with what it might do allows the firm to
a. balance the internal characteristics of the firm with the characteristics of the external
environment.
b. overcome the rigidity and inertia resulting from a history of success.
c. develop its vision, pursue its mission, and select and implement its strategies.
d. develop core competencies based on human knowledge.
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45. Value consists of
a. A product’s proprietary characteristics and by its attributes for which customers are
willing to pay.
b. A product’s performance characteristics and by its attributes for which customers are
willing to pay.
c. A product’s proprietary characteristics and by its attributes for which customers
consider paying for.
d. A product’s performance characteristics and by its attributes for which customers
consider paying for.
46. By exploiting their core competencies to meet or exceed the standards of global competition,
firms create ____ for customers.
a. Validation
b. Valuation
c. Valuables
d. Value
47. A decision that results in failure
a. is a career-ending event because it is so unusual.
b. often results from lack of accountability.
c. fosters organizational inertia.
d. allows for learning.
48. The quality of Hyundai vehicles has increased dramatically. Its cars now rank at the top of the
list in vehicle quality, exceeding even Toyota. To management’s surprise, this has not led to
an increase in sales. From the standpoint of capabilities, what can we conclude about
Hyundai’s quality?
a. The increased quality fails the “value” test.
b. The increased quality fails the “rare” test.
c. The increased quality fails the “costly to imitate” test.
d. The increased quality fails the “nonsubstitutable” test.
49. Competitive advantage typically comes from
a. individual resources.
b. one unique resource.
c. several outstanding resources used independently.
d. the unique bundling of several resources.
50. Tangible resources include
a. assets that are people-dependent such as know-how.
b. assets that can be seen and quantified.
c. organizational culture.
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d. a firm’s reputation.
51. Compared to tangible resources, intangible resources are
a. of less strategic value to the firm.
b. not the focus of strategic analysis.
c. a more potent source of competitive advantage.
d. more likely to be reflected on the firm’s balance sheet.
52. Compared to tangible resources, intangible resources are ____ and ____.
a. less visible; more difficult to copy.
b. less visible; less difficult to copy.
c. more visible; more difficult to copy.
d. more visible; less difficult to copy.
53. An investor is considering buying a restaurant that has been in operation for a number of
years. The restaurant has a highly-reputed chef, and many long-term kitchen and wait staff
who work together smoothly. It has a reputation for dishes of consistently high quality and an
appealing dining atmosphere.
a. The success of this restaurant is so heavily based on human resources that the
business will likely be subject to inertia in the future.
b. The investor will find that the restaurant’s financial statements will undervalue the true
value of its resources.
c. The investor should be aware that intangible assets are difficult to leverage into
additional business.
d. The investor should search for a firm which has competitive advantages based on
tangible resources.
54. To provide a sustainable competitive advantage, a capability must satisfy all of the following
criteria EXCEPT
a. be technologically innovative.
b. be hard for competing firms to duplicate.
c. be without good substitutes.
d. be valuable to customers.
55. Organizational culture is
a. amorphous and changeable.
b. not easily imitable.
c. so difficult to analyze that most firms should choose to ignore it.
d. typically fragile in the face of changes in the external environment.
56. Primary activities are
a. the activities most likely to be imitated by competitors.
b. involved in a product’s physical creation, its distribution, and its service after the sale.
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c. the core competencies of the organization.
d. the activities most crucial to implementing the firm’s business strategy.
57. Value chain activities
a. are used to identify the industry profit pool that the firm should target.
b. show that there are multiple means that can be used to implement a business
strategy.
c. focus on the links between primary activities, because these are the true source of
competitive advantage for the firm.
d. can be used in not-for-profit organizations if the analysis focuses on support activities.
58. The goal of business-level strategy is to earn above-average returns.
True/False
59. Every firm uses all levels of strategy: corporate, acquisition and restructuring, international
and cooperative.
True/False
60. There are three generic business level strategies.
True/False
61. Business-level strategies detail commitments and actions taken to provide value to customers
and gain competitive advantage by exploiting core competencies in
a. the selection of industries in which the firm will compete.
b. specific product markets.
c. primary value chain activities.
d. particular geographic locations.
62. Which of the following is TRUE?
a. As customer loyalty increases, customers are more sensitive to price increases.
b. Customer loyalty has a positive relationship with firm profitability.
c. Customer loyalty is fragile and cannot reliably be considered a factor in firm success.
d. Customer loyalty is of importance only to firms using a differentiation strategy.
63. A cost leadership strategy provides goods or services with features that are
a. acceptable.
b. unique.
c. substandard.
d. mediocre.
64. A river barge company can offer cheaper, although slower, per pound transportation of
products to companies when compared with transportation by air, truck, or rail. The river
barge company should first target customers whose companies use
a. the integrated cost leadership/differentiation strategy.
b. either of the focus strategies.
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c. the cost-leadership strategy.
d. any of the strategies except the focused differentiation strategy.
65. A firm successfully implementing a differentiation strategy would expect
a. customers to be sensitive to price increases.
b. to charge premium prices.
c. customers to perceive the product as standard.
d. to have high levels of power over suppliers.
66. The differentiation strategy can be effective in controlling the power of rivalry with existing
competitors in an industry because
a. customers will seek out the lowest cost product.
b. customers of non-differentiated products are sensitive to price increases.
c. customers are loyal to brands that are differentiated in meaningful ways.
d. the differentiation strategy benefits from rivalry because it forces the firm to innovate.
67. The risks of a focus strategy include
a. a competitor’s ability to use its core competencies to outfocus the focuser by serving
an even more narrowly defined segment.
b. a competitor’s ability to use its core competencies to outfocus the focuser by serving
an even more broadly defined segment.
c. decisions by industry-wide competitors to use their resources to serve a wider range
of customers’ needs than the focuser has been serving.
d. decisions by focused competitors to use their resources to serve a wider range of
customers’ needs.
68. Land’s End offers jeans personally tailored to the customer’s individual body measurements,
resulting in a garment that is uniquely sized. This is an example of
a. Total Quality Management.
b. an enterprise resource planning system.
c. a flexible manufacturing system.
d. a customer relationship management system.
69. A firm that formulates and implements a strategy that leads to superior performance has
competitive advantage
True/False
70. In the implementation stage of scenario planning, managers will activate the dominant
strategic plan.
True/False
71. In both monopolistically competitive industries and oligopolistic industries, the ability to
differentiate a product provides a firm with pricing power.
True/False
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72. The five forces analysis is focused on factors that influence an industry's profitability
potential.
True/False
73. The primary role of R&D in achieving superior customer responsiveness is
a) Use web-based information systems to increase responsiveness to customers
b) Use information systems to reduce costs of coordination
c) Achieve rapid response through flexible manufacturing
d) Bring customers into the product development process
74. A business-level strategy indicates product markets and businesses in which the firm should
compete.
True/False
75. A major advantage of diversification is that overall monitoring costs are reduced, since each
separate business comes under the control of corporate headquarters.
True/False
76. All of Krispy Kreme’s revenues come from its one main product, doughnuts. It can be
considered a classic example of a firm following a constrained strategy.
True/False
77. Related linked firms share more resources and assets between their businesses than do
related constrained firms.
True/False
78. A high number of opportunities to share activities among companies in a diversified
organization is called high operational relatedness.
True/False
79. PepsiCo uses its own distribution system to deliver multiple Pepsi branded beverage
products. Pepsi recently acquired Gatorade and delivers these products using the Pepsi
distribution system. This use of Pepsi’s outbound logistics is an example of activity sharing.
True/False
80. Economies of scope are cost savings resulting from a firm successfully leveraging, either
through sharing or transferring, some of its capabilities and competencies developed in one
business to another business.
True/False
81. Market power exists when a firm is able to sell its products above the existing competitive
level or decrease the costs of its primary and support activities below the competitive level, or
both.
True/False
82. Equator, a U.S. manufacturer of pharmaceuticals, has acquired a firm in the same industry in
Ireland. It plans to move one of its key managers from its plant in St. Louis to Ireland. This can
be considered a method of transferring corporate-level core competencies.
True/False
83. Partial vertical integration is not practical because it involves excessive levels of coordination
between internal company units and outside contractors.
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True/False
84. Contract manufacturers who manage their customers’ entire product line, and offer services
ranging from inventory management to delivery and after-sales services are prime examples
of vertical integration.
True/False
85. Virtual integration tends to erode the relationships between suppliers and customers as
personal contacts are replaced with impersonal electronic communications.
True/False
86. Firms with both operational and corporate relatedness are favorites of investment analysts
because the transparency and clarity of their financial statements clearly show the value-
creation resulting from the combination of multiple businesses.
True/False
87. A significant benefit of an internal capital market is limiting competitors’ access to information
about the performance of the individual businesses within the corporation.
True/False
88. Unrelated diversification has been the norm for the most successful firms in many
industrialized countries such as Germany, Italy, and France.
True/False
89. Low performance is associated with increased diversification.
True/False
90. Without strict governance mechanisms, the majority of executives will act in their own self-
interest rather than acting as positive stewards of firm resources.
True/False
91. On the most basic level, corporate-level strategy is concerned with ____ and how to manage
these businesses.
a. whether the firm should invest in global or domestic businesses
b. what product markets and businesses the firm should be in
c. whether the portfolio of businesses should generate immediate above-average returns or
should be troubled businesses which will create above-average returns only after
restructuring
d. whether to integrate backward or forward.
92. The ultimate test of the value of a corporate-level strategy is whether the
a. corporation earns a great deal of money.
b. top management team is satisfied with the corporation's performance.
c. businesses in the portfolio are worth more under the management of the company in
question than they would be under any other ownership.
d. businesses in the portfolio increase the firm’s financial returns.
93. A firm that earns less than 70% of revenue from its dominant business and has direct
connections between its businesses is engaging in ____ diversification.
a. Unrelated
b. related constrained
c. related linked
d. dominant-business
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94. The lowest level of diversification is the _________ level.
a. single business
b. dominant-business
c. related constrained
d. unrelated
95. The term “conglomerates” refers to firms using the ____ diversification strategy.
a. Unrelated
b. related constrained
c. related linked
d. Global
96. An office management firm has developed a system for efficiently organizing small medical
and dental practices both through proprietary software and through unique training programs
for staff. It has recently acquired a firm specializing in providing management services for
veterinary practices. The office management firm is hoping to
a. achieve economies of scope.
b. implement vertical integration.
c. achieve financial economies through an unrelated acquisition.
d. acquire specialized talent from the veterinary management company.
97. Firms seek to create value from economies of scope through all of the following EXCEPT
a. activity sharing.
b. skill transfers.
c. transfers of corporate core competencies.
d. de-integration.
98. Operational relatedness is created by ____ activities within the ____.
a. sharing; capabilities
b. sharing; value chain
c. transferring; value chain
d. transferring; capabilities
99. Research has shown that horizontal acquisitions
a. tend to have disappointing financial results in the long run.
b. are being replaced by virtual acquisitions.
c. result in lower levels of performance than unrelated acquisitions.
d. are able to use activity sharing to successfully create economies of scope.
100. A noted professional art academy has founded an “artists and friends” travel company
specializing in tours for artists to scenic locales, using its faculty as traveling teachers. In
addition, the art academy has purchased a framing company to both make frames for
academy art works, but also to sell museum-quality framing services to the public. The art
academy is engaging in diversification based on ____ relatedness.
a. Operational
b. Corporate
c. Intellectual
d. Constrained
101. The purchasing of firms in the same industry is called:
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a. unrelated diversification.
b. vertical integration.
c. networking the organization.
d. horizontal acquisition.
102. In related linked diversified firms, ____ are a complex set of resources that link the
different businesses through managerial and technological knowledge, experience, and
expertise.
a. corporate core competencies
b. Strategies
c. support activities
d. intangible assets
103. Backward integration occurs when a company
a. produces its own inputs.
b. owns its own source of distribution of outputs.
c. is concentrated in a single industry.
d. is divesting unrelated businesses.
104. Specialty Steel, Inc., needs a particular type of brick to line its kilns in order to safely
achieve the high temperatures needed for the unusually strong steel it produces. The clay to
make this brick is very rare and only two brick plants in the U.S. make this type of brick.
Specialty Steel has decided to buy one of these brick plants. This is an example of
a. backward integration.
b. forward integration.
c. horizontal integration.
d. virtual integration.
105. Luxottica is a sunglass manufacturer which has traditionally served the fashion segment.
Luxottica recently purchased Oakley, Inc., a manufacturer of sunglasses in the sportswear
segment. The potential synergies from this acquisition include
a. Operational relatedness.
b. Corporate relatedness.
c. Both operational and corporate relatedness.
d. Neither operational nor corporate relatedness.
106. Successful unrelated diversification through restructuring is typically accomplished by
a. focusing on mature, low-technology businesses.
b. a “random walk” of good luck in picking firms to buy.
c. seeking out high technology firms in high growth industries.
d. a top management team that is not constrained by pre-established ideas of how the firm’s
portfolio should be developed.
107. Free cash flows are
a. liquid financial assets for which investments in current businesses are no longer
economically viable.
b. liquid financial assets that for tax purposes must be reinvested in the firm if not distributed
as dividends to shareholders.
c. the profits resulting after a restructured firm has been sold.
d. dividends that have been distributed to shareholders that are taxed as capital gains.
108. Synergy exists when
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a. cost savings are realized through improved allocations of financial resources based on
investments inside or outside the firm.
b. two units create value by utilizing market power in their respective industries.
c. firms utilize constrained related diversification to build an attractive portfolio of
businesses.
d. the value created by business units working together exceeds the value the units create
when working independently.
109. Personal motives for managers to seek diversification include a desire to
a. improve their marketability to other firms.
b. effectively use corporate resources.
c. provide higher returns to corporate stakeholders.
d. increase their compensation.
110. As a formerly innovative product becomes standardized, its production can be moved out
of the U.S. to a country with low manufacturing costs, thus extending the product's life cycle.
True/False
111. Universal product demand has permeated all types of goods and services so thoroughly
that firms rarely find they need to customize products for particular cultures or nations.
True/False
112. The requirement for local repair and service capabilities has discouraged manufacturers
of household appliances, such as General Motors and Toyota, from diversifying
internationally.
True/False
113. Part of Japan’s success in the video game industry is derived from two related and
support industries, cartoons and animation, and electronics.
True/False
114. A company that chooses a truly global corporate-level strategy assumes that the liability
of foreignness will be minimal.
True/False