Strategic Management, Text And Cases 11th
Edition By Mcnamara, Eisner Ch 1 to 19
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,Table Of Contents
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PART 1: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
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1. Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages
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2. Analyzing the External Environment of the Firm
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3. Assessing the Internal Environment of the Firm
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4. Recognizing a Firm’s Intellectual Assets: Moving beyond a Firm’s Tangible Resources
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PART 2: STRATEGIC FORMULATION
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5. Business-Level Strategy: Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantages
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6. Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value through Diversification
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7. International Strategy: Creating Value in Global Markets
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8. Entrepreneurial Strategy and Competitive Dynamics
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PART 3: STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION
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9. Strategic Control and Corporate Governance
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10. Creating Effective Organizational Designs
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11. Strategic Leadership: Creating a Learning Organization and an Ethical Organization
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12. Managing Innovation and Fostering Corporate Entrepreneurship
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,Strategic Management: Text and Cases, 11e (Dess) yc yc yc yc yc yc
Chapter 1 Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages
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1) Lands' End's failure under the leadership of Ms. Frederica Marchionni was said to be a direct resul
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t of the quality of her leadership. According to the text, this would be an example of the "romantic"
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Answer: TRUE y c
Explanation: In the romantic view of leadership, the implicit assumption is that the leader is the key
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force in determining an organization's success or lack thereof. Under Ms. Marchionni's leadership, th
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e company reported a 19.5-million-dollar loss for 2016 after having reported a 73.8-million-
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dollar profit for the previous year under its previous CEO.
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Difficulty: 2 Medium yc yc
Topic: Strategy and the Strategic Management Process
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Learning Objective: 01- yc y c
01 The definition of strategic management and its four key attributes. Bloom's: Understand
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AACSB: Analytical Thinking Accessibil y c yc yc
ity: Keyboard Navigation
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2) Strategic management consists of the analyses, decisions, and actions an organization unde
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rtakes in order to create and sustain competitive advantages.
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Answer: TRUE y c
Explanation: According to the textbook, this is the definition of strategic management. Difficulty: 1
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Easy
Topic: Strategy and the Strategic Management Process
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Learning Objective: 01- yc y c
01 The definition of strategic management and its four key attributes. Bloom's: Remember
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3) Management innovations such as total quality, just-in- yc yc yc yc yc yc
time, benchmarking, business process reengineering, and outsourcing are important but not enough fo
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r building sustainable competitive advantage.
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Answer: TRUE y c
Explanation: Sustainable competitive advantage cannot be achieved through operational effectivene
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ss alone. Popular management innovations of the last two decades like total quality, just-in-
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time, benchmarking, business process reengineering, and outsourcing are concerned with operational
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effectiveness.
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Topic: Strategy and the Strategic Management Process
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Learning Objective: 01- yc y c
01 The definition of strategic management and its four key attributes. Bloom's: Understand
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ity: Keyboard Navigation
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4) Trade-off decisions between effectiveness and efficiency are important in the practice of
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, strategic management. yc
Answer: TRUE y c
Explanation: The fourth attribute of strategic management is that it involves the recognition of trad
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offs between effectiveness and efficiency. Some authors have referred to this as the difference betw
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een doing the right thing (effectiveness) and doing things right (efficiency).
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Difficulty: 2 Medium yc yc
Topic: Strategy and the Strategic Management Process
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Learning Objective: 01- yc y c
01 The definition of strategic management and its four key attributes. Bloom's: Understand
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AACSB: Analytical Thinking Accessibil y c yc yc
ity: Keyboard Navigation
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5) According to Henry Mintzberg, a management scholar, most firms do not realize their original inten
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ded strategy. yc
Answer: TRUE y c
Explanation: Henry Mintzberg states that the intended strategy rarely survives in its original form. Un
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foreseen environmental developments, unanticipated resource constraints, or changes in managerial pr
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eferences may result in at least some parts of the intended strategy remaining unrealized. On the other
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hand, good managers will want to take advantage of a new opportunity presented by the environment,
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even if it was not part of the original set of intentions.
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Difficulty: 2 Medium yc yc
Topic: Strategy and the Strategic Management Process
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Learning Objective: 01- yc y c
02 The strategic management process and its three interrelated and principal activities.
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Bloom's: Understand AACSB: y c yc
Analytical Thinking
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Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation y c yc
6) The final realized strategy of a firm is a combination of deliberate and time-tested strategies only.
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Answer: FALSE y c
Explanation: Realized strategy is that strategy of a firm in which organizational decisions are determine
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d by both analysis and unforeseen environmental developments, unanticipated resource constraints, and
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/or changes in managerial preferences.
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Difficulty: 2 Medium yc yc
Topic: Strategy and the Strategic Management Process
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Learning Objective: 01- yc y c
02 The strategic management process and its three interrelated and principal activities.
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Bloom's: Understand y c
AACSB: Knowledge Application Acce y c yc yc
ssibility: Keyboard Navigation y c yc
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