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Test 1 Flashcards

1
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A.Profound understanding of the competitive environment

B.Objective appraisal of resources

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Strategic Choice
A.External analysis
B. Internal analysis

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A set of integrated and coherent choices and actions that allow firms to provide unique value that is superior to the competition

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Strategy Statement

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3
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The expectation that businesses or individuals will strive to improve the overall welfare of society

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Social Responsibility

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4
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Make a number of possible paths about a future and assign their likliehood

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Scenario Planning

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PESTEL

General Environment

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Political
Economic
Social
Technological
Environment
Legal
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Book says

General Environment

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Demographic
Sociocultural
Political/legal
Technological
Economic
Global
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Encompass the broad environmental context in which a company’s industry is situated

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Macro-environment

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  • High capital requirement

- Economies of Scale

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Cost disadvantage of new entrants

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9
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Limit the potential returns of an industry by placing a ceiling on the prices that firms can profitably charge

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Substitute products/services

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  • small # of firms
  • unique/highly differentiated products
  • Threaten “forward vertical integration”
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Supplier Bargaining power

Profit

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11
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  • ability to do backward vertical integration
  • product sold are undifferentiated and price transparent
  • switching costs to competing sellers
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Powerful Buyers bargaining power

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12
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The degree to which a seller can steal buyers from other sellers

cost involved if buyers wants to
switch to different firms

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Switching costs

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13
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Group of firms producing products or services that are perceived by customers as meeting the same needs

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Industry

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14
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Strategies as building defenses against the competitive forces or finding a position where the forces are weakest

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Positioning the company

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15
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Technology, regulation, social trend may change the bases of industry structure
(shifting threats of five forces)

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Exploiting Industry change

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16
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Leaders guide their industries toward a new ways of competing that alter the five forces for the better

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Shape Industry structure

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17
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The value net

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Remedy of the problem in the Five Force Model

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18
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Clusters of firms that share similar strategies:
Price/quality
Degree of vertical integration
type of distribution

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Strategic Grpups

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19
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Involves surveillance of a firm’s external environment

  • predicts changes to come
  • allows firm to be procactive
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Environmental Scanning

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20
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tracks evolution of environmental trends
hard- measurable facts
soft- estimated, probable events

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Environmental monitoring

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21
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Helps firm define and understand their industry

-identify rivals strengths/weaknesses

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Competitive intelligence

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22
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predicts change

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Environmental forecasting

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23
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involves detailed assessments of the ways trends may affect an issue and development of alternative futures based on these assessments

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Scenario analysis

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24
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Forces managers to consider both internal and external factors
Makes firms act proactively
Raises awareness about role of strategy

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SWOT Analysis

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25
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forces influence the values, beliefs, and lifestyles of a society
-more women in workforce

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Sociocultural

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26
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processes and legislation influence environmental regulations with which industries must comply

  • ADA (disabilities)
  • Deregulation of utilities
  • increase min wage
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Political/legal

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27
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Developments lead to new products and services; can create new industries and alter existing ones

  • Genetic engineering
  • wireless commmunication
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Technological

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28
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Affect all industries

  • interest rate
  • unemployment
  • consumer price index
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Economic Forces

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29
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offer both opportunities and risks

  • currency exchange rates
  • trade agreements
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Global

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30
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consists of factors in the task or industry environment that are particularly relevant to a firm’s strategy

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Competitive environment

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31
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Looks at the sequential process of value-creating activities
-how is value created within organization?

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Value-chain analysis

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32
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contribute to the physical creation of the product or service; the sale and transfer to the buyer; and service after the sale

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Value-chain PRIMARY activities

  • Inbound logistics
  • operations
  • outbound logistics
  • marketing and sales
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33
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Either add value by themselves or add value through important relationships with both primary activities and ___ activities

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Value-chain SUPPORT activities

  • procurement
  • tech development
  • human resource mgmt
  • general admin
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34
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-Expand value chain by exchanging resources

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Interrelationships among value-chain activities

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35
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Combines internal and external analysis of the industry and its competitive environment

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Resource-based view of firm

RBV

36
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-Physical assets - plant, machinery and equip

Financial Assets - cash

Tech assets - patents, copyrights

Organizational resources - effective planning processes and control sytems

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Tangible resources

easy to identify

37
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  • Human resources - trust, capabilities of employees
  • Innovation resources - technical and scientific expertise and ideas
  • Reputation resources - brand names
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Intangible resources

difficult for competitors to account for or imitate - embedded in unique culture

38
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Competencies or skills that a firm employs to transform inputs into outputs; the capacity to combine tangible and intangible resources to attain desired ends

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Organizational capabilities

39
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  1. Valuable
  2. Rare
  3. Difficult to imitate
  4. Difficult to substitute
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Strategic resources 4 attritubutes

40
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  • Balance sheet
  • income statement
  • market valuation
  • Historical compensation
  • comparison with key competitors
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Financial Ratio Analysis

evaluating firm performance

41
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  1. Short term solvency or liquidity
  2. long-term solvency measures
  3. Asset management or turnover
  4. Profitability
  5. Market Value

Meaningful ____ must include

  • How rations change over time
  • how ratios are interrelated
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5 types of financial ratios

42
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  • Employees
  • owners
  • customer satisfaction
  • internal processes
  • Innovation, learning, and improvement activities
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Balanced scorecard

evaluating firm performance

43
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A meaningful integration of many issues that come into evaluating performance

  • how do customers see us?
  • how do we look to shareholders?
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Balanced scorecard

44
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A company’s value is not derived solely from its physical assets. Rather it is based on knowledge, know-how, and intellectual assets - all embedded in people

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Central role of knowledge

45
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Wealth is increasingly created by effective management of knowledge workers instead of by the efficient control of physical and financial assets

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Knowledge Economy

46
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measure of value of firm’s intangible assets- the difference between a firms market value and book value

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Intellectual capital

  • reputation
  • employee loyalty
  • customer relationships
  • company values
47
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includes individual capabilities, knowledge, skills, and experience of company’s employees and managers

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Human capital

48
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The friendships and working relationships among talented individuals- helps tie knowledge workers to a given firm

Interaction, sharing, collaboration will help develop firm

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Social capital

49
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codified, documented, easily reproduced, widely distributed

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Explicit knowledge

50
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in minds of the employees, based on their experiences and backgrounds

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Tactic knowledge

51
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  • Hiring via personal social networks

- pied piper effect -same job candidates may bring other talent with them

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How social capital helps attract and retain talent

52
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Depicts the pattern of interactions among individuals and helps to diagnose effective and ineffective patterns

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Social Network

53
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The degree to which all members of the social network have relationships with other group members

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Closure relationships

social network

54
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Structural holes

-Connect otherwise disconnected people

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Bridging Relationships

social network

55
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Groupthink

  • dysfunctional human resource practices
  • expensive socialization processes
  • individuals distort or selectively use information to favor themselves
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Limitations to Social capital

56
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capacity to build and protect a competitive advantage

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Dynamic capabilities

57
Q

Overall cost leadership
Differentiation
Focus

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Porters 3 generic strategies

58
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  • Creating low-cost position relative to a firm’s peers

- managing relationships throughout the entire value chain to lower costs

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Overall cost leadership

McDonalds, Walmart

59
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Products and/or services that are unique and valued

-emphasis on nonprice attributes for which customers will gladly pay premium

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Differentiation

Apple

60
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Narrow product lines, buyer segments, or targeted geographic markets
-advantages obtained either through differentiation or cost leadership

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Focus

Ikea,Costco

61
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  • Vigorous pursuit of cost reductions from experience
  • Tight cost reductions from experience
  • Lower costs through experience curve
  • Competitive parity - “on par” with competitors in low-cost, differentiation, or other strategies
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Cost Leadership involves

62
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  • Too much focus on one or a few value chain activities
  • Increase in the cost of inputs on which the advantage is based
  • strategy can be imitated easily
  • reduces flexibility
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Pitfalls to cost leadership

63
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  • prestige or brand image
  • technology
  • innovation
  • features
  • customer service

A level of cost parity relative to competitors

  • superior material handling
  • personal relationships with key customers
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Differentiation Strategy

64
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  • Creates higher entry barriers due to customers loyalty
  • higher margins
  • reduces buyer power because buyers lack suitable alternatives
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Advantages to Differentiation

65
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  • Uniqueness that is not valuable
  • too high a price premium
  • dilution of brand identification through product line extension
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Pitfalls to differentiation

66
Q

Based on choice of narrow competitive scope within an industry
-firm selects a segment and tailors its strategy to serve them

Cost focus
-creates cost advantage in its target segment

Differentiation focus

  • differentiates itself in its target market
  • exploits special needs of buyers
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Focus Strategy

67
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  • Erosion of cost advantages within the narrow segment

- still subject to competition from new entrants and imitation

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Pitfalls of Focus

68
Q

Makes it difficult for competitors to duplicate or imitate strategy

Combination strategy to provide unique value in efficient manner

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Combination strategy: low-cost and differentiation

69
Q
  • creates higher entry barriers due to both ___
  • Can provide higher margins that enable the firm to deal with supplier power
  • reduces buyer power because of fewer competitors
  • an overall value proposition reduces threat from substitutes
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Integrated overall low cost and differentiated strategy

70
Q

New technologies, shifting social and demographic trends, and sudden changes in the business environment can create opportunities

  • involves value creation and the assumption of risk
  • startup ventures
  • major corporations
  • nonprofit organizations
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Entrepreneurial Strategy

71
Q
  • attractive
  • achievable
  • durable
  • value-creating
A

Viable opportunities

72
Q

depend on stage of venture development and venture scale

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Financial resources

73
Q

Personal savings, family, and friends

-crowdfunding

A

Initial start up financing

74
Q

Bank financing, angel investors

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Early stage financing

75
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Commercial banks, venture capitalists equity financing

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Later stage financing

76
Q

An entrepreneur’s most important asset

- requires transformational leadership

A

Vision

77
Q

Helps explain why strategies evolve and how to respond:

  • New competitive action
  • threat analysis
A

Competitive dynamics

78
Q

involves an assessment of

  • market commonality
  • resource similarity

-what is the intent of the competitive response?

A

Threat Analysis

79
Q

Strategic actions - entering new markets, new product introductions, changing production capacity, mergers/alliances

Tactical actions - price cutting(or increases), product/service enhancements, increased marketing efforts, new distribution channels

A

Competitive dynamics types

80
Q

Market dependence

  • competitor’s resources
  • the reputation of the firm that initiates the action -actor’s reputation
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Likelihood of competitive reaction

81
Q

Forbearance

co-operation- working together behind the scenes to achieve industrywide efficiencies

A

Choosing not to respond

82
Q

Analysis
-vision, mission, internal and external environment

Decisions -formulation
-what industries should we compete in?

Actions - implementation
-allocate necessary resources

A

Strategic management

83
Q

Starting point in strategic mgmt process
-involves careful analysis of the overarching goals of the organization

  • Establish hierarchy of goals
  • vision, mission, objectives

Analyze external environment
-managers must monitor and scan environment as well as competitors

Assessing internal environment
-strengths and relationships

Assessing firms intellectual assets
- knowledge workers and networks and relationship

A

Strategy analysis

84
Q

the relationship among various participants in determining the direction and performance of corporations

  • shareholders
  • mgmt (CEO)
  • board of directors
A

Corporate governance

85
Q

Zero sum

  • stakeholders compete for attention and resources
  • gain of one is loss to the other

Symbiosis

  • stakeholders are dependent upon each other for success and well being
  • receive mutual benefits
A

2 views of stakeholder management

86
Q

the expectation that businesses or individuals will strive to improve the overall welfare of society

-firms must create shared value -identify and expand connections between societal and economic progress

A

Social responsibility

87
Q

Firms can measure a triple bottom line

-assessing financial, social, and environmental performance

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Environmental sustainability

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