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This document provides a complete test bank for Strategic Management: Text and Cases, 11th Edition by Dess. It includes verified questions, answers, and detailed rationales covering all chapters from 1 to 12, focusing on strategic analysis, competitive advantage, and business-level and corporate strategies. The material is designed to support exam preparation, reinforce key strategic management concepts, and enhance critical thinking and decision-making skills. It is ideal for students preparing for exams, case analyses, and coursework.

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Test Bank Strategic Management Text And Cases 11th Edition
By Dess
|All Chapter (1-12) |Q&As Verified With Rationales| Grade A+
Assured
| ISBN 9781264124329

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages.................................................. 3
Chapter 2 Analyzing the External Environment of the Firm: Creating Competitive Advantages ..... 89
Chapter 03 Assessing the Internal Environment of the Firm .................................................................. 144
Chapter 03 Assessing the Internal Environment of the Firm Answer Key ............................................ 182
Chapter 4 Recognizing a Firm's Intellectual Assets: Moving beyond a Firm's Tangible Resources 318
Chapter 5 Business-Level Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantages.................. 376
Chapter 6 Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value through Diversification ................................. 429
Chapter 7 International Strategy: Creating Value in Global Markets................................................ 481
Chapter 8 Entrepreneurial Strategy and Competitive Dynamics ..................................................... 537
Chapter 9 Strategic Control and Corporate Governance ................................................................... 586
Chapter 11 Strategic Leadership: Creating a Learning Organization and an Ethical Organization 674
Chapter 12 Managing Innovation and Fostering Corporate Entrepreneurship .............................. 726

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Chapter 1 Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages

1) Lands' End's failure under the leadership of Ms. Frederica Marchionni was said to be a
direct result of the quality of her leadership. According to the text, this would be an
example of the "romantic" perspective of leadership.

CORRECT ANSWER TRUE
Explanation: In the romantic view of leadership, the implicit assumption is that the leader
is the key force in determining an organization's success or lack thereof. Under Ms.
Marchionni's leadership, the company reported a 19.5-million-dollar loss for 2016 after
having reported a 73.8-million-dollar profit for the previous year under its previous CEO.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Strategy and the Strategic Management Process
Learning Objective: 01-01 The definition of strategic management and its four key
attributes. Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

2) Strategic management consists of the analyses, decisions, and actions an
organization undertakes in order to create and sustain competitive advantages.

CORRECT ANSWER TRUE
Explanation: According to the textbook, this is the definition of strategic management.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Strategy and the Strategic Management Process
Learning Objective: 01-01 The definition of strategic management and its four key
attributes. Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Knowledge Application
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

3) Management innovations such as total quality, just-in-time, benchmarking, business
process reengineering, and outsourcing are important but not enough for building
sustainable competitive advantage.

CORRECT ANSWER TRUE
Explanation: Sustainable competitive advantage cannot be achieved through operational
effectiveness alone. Popular management innovations of the last two decades like total
quality, just-in-time, benchmarking, business process reengineering, and outsourcing are
concerned with operational effectiveness.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Strategy and the Strategic Management Process
Learning Objective: 01-01 The definition of strategic management and its four key
attributes. Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

4) Trade-off decisions between effectiveness and efficiency are important in the practice of

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strategic management.

CORRECT ANSWER TRUE
Explanation: The fourth attribute of strategic management is that it involves the
recognition of trade-offs between effectiveness and efficiency. Some authors have
referred to this as the difference between doing the right thing (effectiveness) and doing
things right (efficiency).
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Strategy and the Strategic Management Process
Learning Objective: 01-01 The definition of strategic management and its four key
attributes. Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

5) According to Henry Mintzberg, a management scholar, most firms do not realize their
original intended strategy.

CORRECT ANSWER TRUE
Explanation: Henry Mintzberg states that the intended strategy rarely survives in its
original form. Unforeseen environmental developments, unanticipated resource
constraints, or changes in managerial preferences may result in at least some parts of the
intended strategy remaining unrealized. On the other hand, good managers will want to
take advantage of a new opportunity presented by the environment, even if it was not part
of the original set of intentions.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Strategy and the Strategic Management Process
Learning Objective: 01-02 The strategic management process and its three interrelated and
principal activities.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

6) The final realized strategy of a firm is a combination of deliberate and time-tested
strategies only.

CORRECT ANSWER FALSE
Explanation: Realized strategy is that strategy of a firm in which organizational decisions
are determined by both analysis and unforeseen environmental developments,
unanticipated resource constraints, and/or changes in managerial preferences.
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Strategy and the Strategic Management Process
Learning Objective: 01-02 The strategic management process and its three interrelated and
principal activities.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Knowledge Application
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

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