Test Bank for Mastering Strategic Management, v. 2.0 by Dave Ketchen and Jeremy Short

Test Bank for Mastering Strategic Management, v. 2.0 by Dave Ketchen and Jeremy Short
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ISBN-13: 9781453386828

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 

CHAPTER 1: Mastering Strategy: Art and Science

1.1 Defining Strategic Management and Strategy

1.2 Intended, Emergent, and Realized Strategies

1.3 The History of Strategic Management

1.4 Understanding the Strategic Management Process

1.5 Conclusion

CHAPTER 2: Leading Strategically

2.1 Vision, Mission, and Goals

2.2 Assessing Organizational Performance

2.3 The CEO as Celebrity

2.4 Entrepreneurial Orientation

2.5 Conclusion

CHAPTER 3: Evaluating the External Environment

3.1 The Relationship between an Organization and Its Environment

3.2 Evaluating the General Environment

3.3 Evaluating the Industry

3.4 Mapping Strategic Groups

3.5 Conclusion

CHAPTER 4: Managing Company Resources

4.1 Resource-Based Theory

4.2 Intellectual Property

4.3 Value Chain

4.4 Beyond Resource-Based Theory: Other Views on Company Performance

4.5 SWOT Analysis

4.6 Conclusion

CHAPTER 5: Selecting Business-Level Strategies

5.1 Understanding Business-Level Strategy through “Generic Strategies”

5.2 Cost Leadership

5.3 Differentiation

5.4 Focused Cost Leadership and Focused Differentiation

5.5 Best-Cost Strategy

5.6 Stuck in the Middle

5.7 Conclusion

CHAPTER 6: Supporting the Business-Level Strategy: Competitive and Cooperative Moves

6.1 Making Competitive Moves

6.2 Responding to Competitors’ Moves

6.3 Making Cooperative Moves

6.4 Conclusion

CHAPTER 7: Competing in International Markets

7.1 Advantages and Disadvantages of Competing in International Markets

7.2 Drivers of Success and Failure When Competing in International Markets

7.3 Types of International Strategies

7.4 Options for Competing in International Markets

7.5 Conclusion

CHAPTER 8: Selecting Corporate-Level Strategies

8.1 Concentration Strategies

8.2 Vertical Integration Strategies

8.3 Diversification Strategies

8.4 Strategies for Getting Smaller

8.5 Portfolio Planning and Corporate-Level Strategy

8.6 Conclusion

CHAPTER 9: Executing Strategy through Organizational Design

9.1 The Basic Building Blocks of Organizational Structure

9.2 Creating an Organizational Structure

9.3 Creating Organizational Control Systems

9.4 Legal Forms of Business

9.5 Conclusion

CHAPTER 10: Leading an Ethical Organization: Corporate Governance, Corporate Ethics, and Social Responsibility

10.1 Boards of Directors

10.2 Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility

10.3 Understanding Thought Patterns: A Key to Corporate Leadership?

10.4 Conclusion

Test Bank for Mastering Strategic Management, v. 2.0 by Dave Ketchen and Jeremy Short 
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