Competitive Business Strategies: Differentiation, Cost Leadership, and Organizational Models
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What is something an organization can do better than its competitors?
What are the three forms of competitive strategy that serve as sources of a firm's competitive advantage?
What strategy involves offering a product or service at a lower price than competitors?
What strategy involves offering a product or service that is unique relative to competitor offerings?
What strategy targets a market niche rather than engaging all possible customers?
What is a temporary network of independent companies linked by information technology to share skills, costs, and access to markets?
What are some organizational strategies contributing to the rise of virtual organizations?
What term describes an economic model where assets or services are exchanged between private individuals, often through a platform?
What is the practice of hiring other organizations to complete certain non-essential business operations?
What occurs when business functions are moved to an external firm rather than keeping production in-house?
What occurs when business functions are moved to an external firm, but reporting relationships are preserved?
What types of jobs are at high risk of subcontracting or outsourcing?
What are duties that must be completed on a regular basis, often with little variation?
What type of work is accomplished through physical processes?
What is the practice of sending business operations to a different country, possibly with the same or a different company?
What are some reasons for offshoring business operations?
What term describes the various steps of manufacturing and delivery of a product or service when those steps span multiple intermediate firms?
What are entities that coordinate production and typically control intellectual property?
What is the process of moving externalized organizational activities back in-house?
What is the process of moving organizational activities located abroad back in-house?
What is an economic system where assets or services are exchanged between private individuals, often through a facilitating platform?
What is a system of shared meaning held by members that guides action and distinguishes the organization from others?
What involves hierarchy and reporting relationships, explicit instructions, and extrinsic rewards?
What is a coarse means of institutionalizing learning and guiding behavior, often serving as a form of social control?
What term describes a culture that is intensely held and widely shared within an organization?
What term describes a culture where opinions and beliefs vary widely, and it is not clearly articulated or consistently internalized?
What are the different levels of cultural aggregation within organizations?
What are macrocultures, and where are they typically found?
Where are organizational cultures typically present?
What are groups within an organization that have their own distinct cultures?
What are small collectives that may exist within or outside of organizations?
What are the primary characteristics of organizational culture?
Are employees encouraged to experiment and embrace uncertainty in an organization?
Are employees expected to exhibit precision and analytical approaches in their work?
Does leadership focus on results rather than how results are achieved?
Does management take into consideration how decisions impact employees?
Are work activities organized around groups of employees rather than individuals?
Are employees competitive or easygoing in their work environment?
Do organization activities emphasize continuity over change?
What approach to building involves continuous improvement and iteration?
What are the institutional and individual practices involved in socialization?
What are the types of institutional practices in socialization?
What does it mean when new employees are identified and treated differently in an organization?
What does it mean when role models or mentors train and encourage apprentices?
What does it mean to strip away former individual qualities in an organization?
What are the types of individual practices in socialization?
What does it mean when new employees are put directly into a job without formal training?
What does it mean when employees are left alone to figure things out in an organization?
What does it mean to confirm newcomer's qualities in an organization?
What term describes an organizational culture that is highly resistant to change?
What is a form of control that guides action when uncertainty exists?
What are the processes involved in creating and sustaining organizational culture?
What are the varying academic views of organizational culture?
What academic discipline focuses on contextual knowledge that may be applied in specific social contexts?
What academic discipline views culture as a form of constraint, limiting individuals' actions?
What academic discipline focuses on behavioral tendencies rooted in cultural traditions and social practices?
What academic discipline focuses on a set of norms and values widely shared in an organization?
What is the correlation between publicly espoused values and firm short or long-term performance in the S&P 500?
What are the components of Schein's Model of organizational culture?
What are the visible and feelable features of a setting that are often ambiguous and difficult to decipher?
What are ideals, goals, aspirations, and rationalizations that may not necessarily be aligned with underlying behavior?
What are BP's espoused beliefs and values?
What are unconscious, taken-for-granted beliefs and values that determine behavior and perception?
What are the barriers that poorly aligned cultural alignment may act as?
What are the components of cultural alignment?
What is a barrier to change in organizational culture?
How can cultural reproduction minimize diversity in an organization?
How can cultural differences derail attempts to combine organizations?
What is the risk of cultural alignment if it is poorly aligned with people, tasks, strategy, and environments?
What are the elements and features within an organization that assist with coordination, task completion, and competitive advantage?
What pertains to external groups that are directly relevant to achieving an organization's goals?
What are the sources of opportunity and uncertainty in the task environment?
What includes broad factors that shape market features and result in uncertainty for organizations?
What is notably inert and difficult to alter within an organization?
When can an organization experience potentially rapid decline?
What are tools for organizations to assess profitability, shaped by rivals, new entrants, buyers, substitutes, and suppliers?
What are competitors that may undercut the firm, forcing it to lower prices?
What describes the ease at which new rivals may enter a market?
What factors influence the power of buyers in a market?
What are the alternatives that exist to the focal firm's offerings?
What factors influence the power of suppliers over a focal firm?
What theory posits that organizations have a technical core that is key to its competitive advantage and should be protected?
What are the essential tasks, offerings, and technology that make up an organization's technical core?
What is the importance of a technical core to an organization?
What disrupts the technical core of an organization?
How can an organization protect its core functions?
What theory posits that external actors controlling key resources may hold power over a resource-dependent exchange partner?
What are the central points of the resource dependency theory?
What does the resource dependence theory assert about an organization's behavior?
What are the strategies to address dependence in an organization?
What are buffering strategies in an organization?
What are examples of buffering strategies?
What does forecasting and stockpiling involve in an organization?
What does leveling (aka smoothing) involve in an organization?
What does bridging involve in an organization?
What does adjusting scale involve in an organization?
What are examples of bridging strategies?
What does negotiating involve in an organization?
What are examples of pooling resources in an organization?
joint ventures
- strategic alliances
- associations/cartels
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