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Firms must consider social responsibility beyond short-term profit. Strategic analysis involves advance work to formulate and implement strategies. The value net analyzes how interactions between players in a game affect a firm's ability to generate value. Business-level strategy focuses on what businesses to compete in and managing synergy among businesses.

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Strama Answer

Firms must consider social responsibility beyond short-term profit. Strategic analysis involves advance work to formulate and implement strategies. The value net analyzes how interactions between players in a game affect a firm's ability to generate value. Business-level strategy focuses on what businesses to compete in and managing synergy among businesses.

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1.

Firms must be aware of goals other than short-term profit


maximization. One area of concern should be social responsibility
which is:

the expectation that business will strive to improve the overall welfare
of society

2. __________ may be considered the advance work that must be done in


order to effectively formulate and implement strategies.

Strategy analysis

3. The value net is a game-theoretic approach that _____________.

is a way to analyze all the players in a game and analyze how their
interactions affect the ability of a firm to generate and appropriate value

4. Business-level strategy focuses on (1) what businesses to compete


in, and (2) the management of the business portfolio to create
synergy among its businesses.

False

5. Five-Forces analysis implicitly assumes a zero-sum game, a


perspective that can be short-sighted

True

6.
Former Chrysler vice chairman Robert Lutz observed that companies
exist to serve the shareholder and create shareholder value. He insisted that
the only person who owns the company is the person who paid good money
for it. This is an example of a symbiotic approach to stakeholder
management.

False

7.
Which of the following statements about strategic groups is FALSE?
Strategic groupings are of little help to a firm in assessing mobility
barriers that protect a group from attacks by other groups.

Question 8
A danger of forecasting discussed in the text is that________________

managers may view uncertainty as “black and white” while ignoring


important “gray areas”.

Question 9
Even with all of the advances in recent years, forecasting is typically
considered more of an art than a science and it is of little use in generating
accurate predictions.

False

Question 10

Which of the following would be an entry barrier?

large economies of scale

Question 11
According to Henry Mintzberg, a management scholar, most firms
realize their original intended strategy.

False

Question 12
Shell, NEC, and Procter and Gamble have been measuring their
performance according to what has been called a triple bottom line. This
technique involves an assessment of financial, social, and environmental
performance.

True

Question 13
In general, the threat of substitutes is heightened because the Internet
____________.

introduces new ways to accomplish the same task

Question 14
Environmental scanning and competitor intelligence provide important
inputs for forecasting activities.

True

Question 15
The four key attributes of strategic management include the idea that:

strategy must be directed toward overall organizational goals and


objectives

Question 16
An automobile manufacturer acquires a rental car company. This is an
example of _____.

forward integration

Question 17
New communication technology can impact seemingly unrelated
industries such as the airline industry. This would be an example of a
______________.

threat of substitute products

Question 18
The most intense rivalry results from _____________.

numerous equally balanced competitors, slow industry growth, high


fixed or storage costs

Question 19
The aging of the population is a hard trend.

True

Question 20
Competitive intelligence generally does not benefit very much from
gathering information on competitors from sources in the public domain.

False

Question 21
Much research has supported the notion that individuals work much
harder when they are asked to do their best rather than when they are
striving toward a specific goal.

False
Question 22
A mission statement encompasses both the purpose of the
organization as well as its basis of competition, and the basis of its
competitive advantage.

True

Question 23
The hierarchy of organizational goals is in this order (least specific to
most specific):

vision statements, mission statements, strategic objectives

Question 24
Environmental scanning and competitor intelligence provide important
inputs for forecasting activities.

True

Question 25
The strategic groups in the worldwide automobile industry have been
very stable and unchanging in recent years.

False

Question 26
The text argues that a strategic perspective in an organization should
be emphasized:

throughout the organization


Question 27
Effectiveness is often defined as:

doing the right thing

Question 28
The three primary participants in corporate governance are: (1) the
shareholders, (2) the management (led by the chief executive officer), and (3)
the employees.

False

Question 29
Examples of __________ include: To be the happiest place on earth
(Disneyland), and Restoring patients to full life (Medtronic).

vision statements

Question 30
Business-level strategy focuses on (1) what businesses to compete in,
and (2) the management of the business portfolio to create synergy among
its businesses.

False

Question 31
The text addresses two perspectives of leadership as well as their
implications. These two perspectives are:
romantic and external control

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