Questions and Answers of Strategic Management

In what circumstances is the symbiotic mode of integration appropriate?
What are the most frequent sources of failure in M&As?
The text distinguishes between market reach, global leverage and learning alliances. In which category would you place the alliance in vaccines between Pfizer (USA) and BioNtech (Germany)? What do
What are the sources of value creation in an alliance?
What are the criteria to be assessed in order to determine the strategic fit between partners?
What is an extractive agenda in an alliance?
What distinguishes an ecosystem from a multilateral alliance?
When looking at Figure 8.24 can you explain why in 2021 the main electric vehicle companies were obliged to reduce their production? Materials suppliers Equipment and applications providers Component
What impact may cultural differences between partners have on global alliances?
What are the six domains that need to be negotiated in relation to the interface and governance of an alliance?
What are the different types of local partner in joint ventures for market entry?
What are the benefits of global standardization?
Can you identify ten ‘global’ products?
In Table 9.4 most of the top global brands are from the United States. Why do you think this is? Table 9.4 Top ten relevant brands, 2019 CHINA USA 1 Alipay 2 Huawei Spotify 3 Android Android Apple UK
Why did Unilever announce that it was reducing the number of its brands from 1,600 to 400? What were the risks of doing so?
What potential problems will a marketer encounter in having a ‘global’ advertising campaign?
What are the benefits of using a single advertising agency?
Why can global pricing lead to sub-optimization?
What is the difference between global account management and global solution selling?
What are the typical problems associated with global account management?
The development of the internet has considerably expanded the already well-established practice of making individually owned private assets or services available to other individuals. For instance,
Created in Stockholm in 1876 where Lars Magnus Ericsson designed telephones, Ericsson in 2021 is a global company that supplies communication infrastructure, services and software to the telecom
Compare Singapore and Malaysia as a possible location for: 1) a PC assembly plant;2) a semiconductor wafer factory; 3) a regional maintenance centre; 4) a customer training centre for international
According to Ferdows (1997), what are the differences between a ‘contributor’ factory and an ‘outpost’ factory?
What are the new roles that De Meyer and Vereecke (1995) assign to ‘foreign’ factories?
What differentiates global manufacturing of goods from global production of services?
What are the three major functions of global logistics?
From the viewpoint of the client of an infrastructure project, compare the relative advantages and disadvantages of turnkey projects, direct project management and BOT.
What is the ‘hostage’ problem in BOT contracts?
Based on your personal experience, give concrete examples of the reach and richness capabilities of the internet.
Why do you think business-to-consumer(B2C) transactions are less likely to develop on the internet, both domestically and globally?
Do you know of any other cases similar to Airbnb’s and Uber’s problems with local government? What are the pros and cons of government regulation of internet platforms?
What do you think are the benefits and constraints of global e-learning platforms(education programmes offered through the internet)?
eBay is a virtual auctioneer. How do you think it can globalize its activities?
What new capabilities does 3D printing bring to global firms?
Can you give examples of ‘internet of things’in 1) medicine, 2) retailing, 3) a private home?
Throughout its 120-year history, Barça has been a symbol of pride for Spain, Catalonia and the Catalan people. Its on-field success and star players have captured over 340 million fans worldwide who
Siemens is a global electronics and electrical engineering corporation, operating in energy, healthcare, infrastructure and industrial solutions sectors. Founded in Germany in 1925, the company has
Why is the international product life cycle model no longer appropriate to explain global innovation?
What are the constraints on implementing a distributed R&D network?
What are the appropriate HRM practices conducive to global R&D?
When is technology transfer complete?
Give two examples of ‘explicit’ knowledge and two examples of ‘tacit’ knowledge in a business context of your choice.
What are the major challenges that the ‘meta national’ model of knowledge creation, sharing and ‘melding’ tries to address?
How can global open innovation help companies be cost efficient whilst remaining innovative?
How can research performance be measured?
How can you protect intellectual property rights (IPR) in a global firm through reciprocity and trust to achieve efficient and equitable outcomes in partnerships?
Cleanwater Inc. is an Australian public company involved in water treatment projects.In early 2020 it was involved in negotiations with the provincial government of Da Nang in Vietnam.Following the
What are the three types of risk that a global company is exposed to as a consequence of currency fluctuations?
On 14 January 2002 it was announced that the US carrier JetBlue would buy ten Airbus 320 aircraft for $500 million. The planes were to be delivered over four years (two in 2002, two in 2003, three
In the UK referendum on EU membership in June 2016, why were most major British financial institutions against Brexit?
What are the benefits and problems for a Japanese firm being listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
Why is the adjusted present value (APV) method preferred to the cost of capital adjustment (CCA) method in valuing international projects?
How can a company deal with strategic exposure?
Why are the correlation coefficients between stock market returns so high?
What type of global financial management tools would a global firm have used to counteract the adverse impacts of the 1997 Asian financial crisis?
The central finance function is one of the central corporate functions of a conglomerate.Do you foresee a trend towards the formation of a global swapping bank account? What are the pros and cons of
Can companies take advantage of favourable exchange or tax rates to make purchases in different currencies/countries?
Name six commodity products which have forward and futures trades. Can you think of a commodity product not related to natural resources which has forward and futures trades?
When a global company originates from a country that may not have a sound financial system (e.g. Argentina), should its overseas offices/subsidiaries hedge their local currencies against the currency
Why do you think the Japanese stock market, as shown in Table 12.3, has not correlated to other markets?Table 12.3 DOWJ USA AORD Australia DOWJ AORD USA 1 0.73 Nikkei Japan CAC 40 France DAX Germany
Pedro Aguilar, twenty-nine, and John Anderson, thirty, graduated in 2017 from Caltech (California Institute of Technology), both obtaining a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. Pedro, a
In May Joseph Laval was appointed managing director of the French–Thai joint venture mobile telephony company Siammobile. The personnel in the joint venture were people who had transferred from the
What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of having a high proportion of global managers to local ones?
What are the main difficulties that confront expatriate managers when they are assigned to an emerging country?
What are the main problems of short expatriate assignments?
One of the main problems that confronts global firms in countries such as China is the turnover of local managers. How can this be prevented?
What are the benefits of mentoring an expatriate?
More and more Western countries’ expatriation packages are disappearing and being replaced by local contracts. Why? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
What are the benefits and problems of applying a standardized performance evaluation system across the world?
Why is global mobility reducing in the 2020s?
Is digital remote working (working from anywhere) consolidating the globalization of enterprise? What is your answer If you are pro-globalization, and if you are anti-globalization?
What will be the key content of a management programme designed to train managers to become ‘country managers’?
The ACER group, created in Taiwan in 1976, was by 2011 the second-biggest PC and notebook company in the world. With revenue of around $20 billion it employs 8,000 people worldwide. Since its
What are the benefits of having a geographical organization?
What are the typical difficulties in implementing a matrix organization?
What are the characteristics of the transnational model?
To what extent does the transnational model differ from the other organizational model?
Is holocracy a managerial illusion?
What does digital technology bring to global organizational design?
Does digital technology favour geographical decentralization or functional centralization?
What is the role of a ‘coordinator’ regional headquarters?
Following the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, which did not affect his territory, the Minister of Health of Pulau Vicente, a fictional South Pacific island, was concerned about future possible pandemic
Why is globalization increasingly being called into question?
Does globalization increase the income gap?
What are the consequences for the global economy of the global economic/political power of China?
How will the ‘global warming issue’ affect the global economy?
Assuming that you are a global company producing cosmetics, what are the variables you would take into consideration to build a ten-year scenario for China?
How do the four components of a business model affect each other? For example, how can the depth of value to customers influence the means of revenue generation?
What difficulties does an organization face when seeking to change its business model? In your opinion, why have Barnes & Noble and Kodak struggled to shift their business models?
How can a new business model become a competitive advantage for an organization?
What changes could hospitals, physicians, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance companies make to their business models to position them more advantageously for the future?
Generic strategies’ dimensions include type of competitive advantage and target market. In your opinion, how would a focused strategy differ from a broad strategy?
Are middle strategies most commonly used? Why or why not?
What actions can an organization take to offer a product at the lowest cost?
When is low cost a viable strategy in healthcare? When would it not be viable?
Which shift in strategy would be most difficult in your opinion:moving from low cost and high differentiation to high cost and high differentiation, or moving from high cost and high differentiation
A first mover can sustain its market advantage through technology, control of scarce resources, and reputation. Look at the first movers you are familiar with. Which of these approaches have they
How does technological change affect a first mover?
Integral Healthcare System (IHS), a not-for-profit organization with a strong, service-oriented mission, is one of the largest care systems in its region. Although highly profitable, it has seen its

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