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Business Policy explores the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of strategies that guide organizations toward achieving their long-term objectives. The course examines the roles of top management in decision-making, environmental analysis, and strategic planning in a competitive global landscape. Students learn to integrate knowledge from various business disciplines, apply analytical tools to real-world cases, and develop critical thinking skills necessary for addressing complex business challenges. Emphasis is placed on ethical considerations, corporate social responsibility, and effective communication to align organizational vision with actionable policies.
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Strategic Management 4th Edition by Frank Rothaermel
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Chapter 1: What Is Strategy
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Q1) Strategic commitments are actions that are
A) inexpensive.
B) long-term oriented.
C) easy to reverse.
D) easy to imitate.
Answer: B
Q2) Visionary companies are able to outperform their competitors because
A) their vision statements are more product-oriented.
B) they provide more aspirational visions.
C) their visions are primarily financial.
D) they isolate internal stakeholders in defining their visions.
Answer: B
Q3) ________ is best described as a set of goal-directed actions a firm takes to gain and sustain superior performance relative to competitors.
A) Behavior modification
B) Strategy
C) Credo
D) Competency management
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Strategic Leadership: Managing the Strategy Process
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Q1) To support the rise of emergent strategies, an organization should
A) centralize decision making and all other activities.
B) empower lower-level employees to take up autonomous actions.
C) limit serendipity that is in the form of random events and accidental happenstances.
D) rely solely on hard data to formulate strategies.
Answer: B
Q2) A firm is required by society and its shareholders to meet its ethical and philanthropic responsibilities.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Under the strategy as a planned emergence model, even entry-level employees can help generate strategic initiatives.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: External Analysis: Industry Structure,
Competitive Forces, and Strategic Groups
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Q1) The government of Filvia has mandated that the standard minimum wage in the country be increased to $8,000 per year. Which of the following factors in a firm's general environment does this mandate best indicate?
A) ecological factors
B) sociocultural factors
C) technological factors
D) legal factors
Answer: D
Q2) The ________ allows the scanning, monitoring, and evaluating of changes and trends in a firm's macro environment.
A) VRIO framework
B) SWOT analysis
C) BCG matrix
D) PESTEL framework
Answer: D
Q3) Firms within the same industry automatically belong to the same strategic group.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Internal Analysis: Resources, Capabilities, and Core Competencies
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Q1) Which of the following provides an example of how a firm's valuable resource can be imitated?
A) To compete with Build Your Own's model of the Eiffel Tower, Best Replica came out with a model of a generic medieval cathedral.
B) To compete with Build Your Own's model of the Eiffel Tower, Best Replica came out with a model of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
C) To compete with Build Your Own's model of the Eiffel Tower, Best Replica came out with a model of the U.S.S. Enterprise aircraft carrier.
D) To compete with Build Your Own's model of the Eiffel Tower, Best Replica came out with a model of a castle from a fantasy movie.
Q2) As manager of a relatively new company, you are tasked with analyzing company resources to identify core competencies capable of supporting a competitive advantage. Which of the following resources is most likely to generate a competitive advantage?
A) new production facilities
B) large cash holdings
C) stockpile of supplies
D) enthusiastic company culture
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Chapter 5: Competitive Advantage, Firm Performance, and Business Models
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Q1) Rock Bottom Tiles has developed a new customer-oriented business model. Rather than maintain a network of showrooms across the country, the business will now let customers choose several styles that interest them from an online site, and will ship samples of each of the styles to the customer to test in their home free of charge. Once they have settled on a tile choice, Rock Bottom will send a representative to their home to schedule installation. The company has determined that busy middle-class customers will value the convenience of the new model, which allow them to upgrade the look of their homes without spending time browsing showrooms. The new model will be created by selling the old showrooms and shifting resources to the new online site and regional offices for sales personnel. What question remains for Rock Bottom to ask in order to put its strategy into action?
A) Why does the business model create value?
B) What activities need to be performed to create and deliver the offerings to consumers?
C) How are the offerings to the customers created?
D) Who are the main stakeholders who will be performing the activities?
Q2) Discuss the four key questions managers need to answer when using the balanced scorecard to develop strategic objectives.
Q3) What are the advantages of the balanced scorecard?
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Chapter 6: Business Strategy: Differentiation, Cost
Leadership, and Blue Oceans
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Q1) The strategy canvas for movie theaters includes factors such as prices, comfort, customer service, concessions variety, and hours of operation. Which of the following value curves is most likely to represent a theater that successfully positions itself as a differentiator?
A) high price, high comfort, high customer service, high concessions variety, low hours of operation
B) low price, high comfort, high customer service, high concessions variety, low hours of operation
C) high price, low comfort, low customer service, high concessions variety, low hours of operation
D) low price, low comfort, low customer service, low concessions variety, low hours of operation
Q2) What are the pricing options available to a firm following a differentiation strategy?
Q3) The primary goal of a firm pursuing a blue ocean strategy should be to
A) create the highest perceived value in its respective industry.
B) build a reputation of being the lowest-cost producer in its chosen industry.
C) offer a differentiated product or service at a low cost.
D) achieve a less steep learning curve.
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Chapter 7: Business Strategy: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Platforms
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Q1) Describe network effects and their potential to help or hurt a platform business.
Q2) Lillypad Toys is a manufacturer of educational toys for children. Six months ago, the company's research and development division came up with an idea for a unique touchscreen device that can be used to introduce children to a number of foreign languages. Three months ago, the company produced a working prototype, and last month the company successfully launched its new device on the commercial market. What should Lillypad's managers prepare for next?
A) increased competition from imitators
B) a prolonged period of uncontested success
C) a sharp decline in demand for the product
D) a difficult struggle to move from invention to innovation
Q3) When firms innovate by leveraging existing technologies into new markets, they are said to be involved in
A) incremental innovations.
B) radical innovations.
C) architectural innovations.
D) disruptive innovations.
Q4) What happens during the shakeout stage of the industry life cycle?
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Chapter 8: Corporate Strategy: Vertical Integration and Diversification
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Q1) Why is following an unrelated diversification strategy especially advantageous in an emerging economy?
A) It allows the conglomerate to overcome institutional weaknesses in emerging economies.
B) It allows the conglomerate to form a monopoly in emerging economies.
C) It allows the conglomerate to use well-defined legal systems in emerging economies.
D) It allows the conglomerate to take advantage of strong capital markets in emerging economies.
Q2) A strategy of ________ will be most beneficial for a firm to enhance its overall corporate performance.
A) unrelated level of diversification
B) single-business level of diversification
C) dominant-business level of diversification
D) related-linked diversification
Q3) Explain the two types of related diversification strategy with the help of examples.
Q4) How are information asymmetries created? What are the implications?
Q5) List the five reasons why firms need to grow.
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Chapter 9: Corporate Strategy: Strategic Alliances, Mergers, and Acquisitions
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Q1) Which of the following scenarios best illustrates horizontal integration?
A) King Autos Inc. enters into a licensing contract with a distributor in a new international market.
B) King Autos Inc. acquires a component parts manufacturer who previously supplied to King Autos' competitor.
C) King Autos Inc. sets up its own distribution channel and retail stores.
D) King Autos Inc. joins with Dimitra Motors Inc., one of its direct competitors.
Q2) Why did incumbent pharmaceutical firms enter into hundreds of strategic alliances with biotech start-ups?
A) to pursue an unrelated-options perspective without disrupting existing market economics
B) to make small-scale investments in ventures poised to disrupt existing market economics
C) to invest their excess cash flow in the superior technology of the biotech start-ups
D) to share their continuously updated research technology with the biotech start-ups
Q3) Define horizontal integration and provide a successful or unsuccessful example.
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Chapter 10: Global Strategy: Competing Around the World
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Q1) The cultural distance between Australia and the United States is relatively high because of the physical distance between the two nations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The administrative and political distance between two trading countries decreases when
A) there are Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) restrictions in the host country.
B) the host country lacks an independent central bank.
C) tariffs and trade quotas exist in the host country.
D) there is a well-functioning capital market in the host country.
Q3) Unilever's new-concept center is situated in downtown Shanghai, China, attracting hundreds of eager volunteers to test the firm's latest product innovations on-site while Unilever researchers monitor consumer reactions. In this example, Unilever is trying to reap the benefits of
A) location economies.
B) economies of scope.
C) learning races.
D) network effects.
Q4) How do firms make decisions to pursue a global strategy?
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Chapter 11: Organizational Design: Structure, Culture, and Control
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Q1) Avalanche operates as a strategic business unit (SBU) under Snowfall Inc., a home-furnishings manufacturer. From this information, it may be reasonable to infer that
A) Avalanche does not have its own profit and loss responsibility.
B) Avalanche is dependent on the other SBUs in Snowfall Inc.
C) Avalanche has a matrix organizational structure.
D) Avalanche is led by its own CEO (or equivalent general manager).
Q2) Once a firm finds success in a given organizational structure, it should seek to reinforce and maintain that structure for the life of the firm.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the characteristics of organic organizations?
Q4) What are the implications of centralization on strategic management processes in an organization?
Q5) An open innovation model reduces a firm's absorptive capacity.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe a global matrix structure. Why do firms use it?
Q7) What are multidivisional structures? How are they implemented?
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Chapter 12: Corporate Governance and Business Ethics
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Q1) Which of the following is true of business ethics?
A) Certain notions such as fairness, honesty, and reciprocity are universal norms.
B) Business ethics is an agreed-upon code of conduct in business, based on laws.
C) The perception of what is ethical and what is not is similar across different cultures.
D) Business ethics needs to be codified into law in order to be followed.
Q2) Which of the following could be used as an example of why a stakeholder strategy approach to business has shortcomings?
A) the nonsustainable debt levels incurred by sovereign governments to fund social programs
B) the financial crisis in Europe brought about by money lenders seeking to make quick money
C) the collapse of the economy in the United States brought about by the housing crisis
D) the rise of GDP in countries that do not believe in Milton Friedman's philosophy
Q3) How does GE exemplify the creation of a shared value creation framework?
Q4) How does a leveraged buyout affect a public company?
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