Strategic Management 4th Edition Frank Rothaermel - Solutions

Franchising is widely used in the casual dining and fast food industry, yet Starbucks is quite successful with a large number of company-owned stores. In 2016 Starbucks had more than 7,800 company-owned stores in the United States. How do you explain this difference? Is Starbucks bucking the trend
Most of us participate in one or more popular social networks online such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, or Twitter. While many of us spend countless hours in these social networks, you may not have given a lot of thought to your network strategy. Social networks describe the
In this chapter, we studied horizontal integration and the build-borrow-or-buy framework. One industry currently consolidating is furniture manufacturing, with thousands of manufacturers and suppliers. Manufacturers range from large recognizable brands, such as Baker, Steelcase, and La-Z-Boy, to
The chapter identifies three governing mechanisms for strategic alliances: non-equity, equity, and joint venture. List the benefits and downsides for each of these mechanisms.
In this chapter three main reasons are given for why one firm would acquire another. In July 2016 Verizon announced it was going to acquire Yahoo for $4.8 billion in cash. The announcement discussed Verizon’s earlier purchase of AOL and noted Yahoo would speed up the digital advertising business.
Many U.S. companies have become global players. The technology giant IBM employs over 375,000 people and has revenues of roughly $95 billion. Although IBM is headquartered in Armonk, New York, the vast majority of its employees (more than 70 percent) actually work outside the United States. IBM,
How can you develop the skills needed to succeed as an international leader? Researchers have developed a personal strategy for building a global mind-set that will facilitate success as an effective manager in a different cultural setting. A global mind-set has three components: intellectual
Professor Pankaj Ghemawat delivered a TED talk titled “Actually, the World Isn’t Flat.” Do you agree with his assessment that the world is at most semi-globalized, and that we need to be careful not to fall victim to “globalony”? View the talk at: www.ted.com/talks/pankaj_ghemawat_
The chapter notes that global strategy can change over time for a firm. MTV is highlighted as one example in Exhibit 10.8. Conduct a web search of a firm you know to be operating internationally and determine its current global strategy position. How long has the firm stayed with this approach? Can
In this exercise, we want to apply the four types of global strategy. Imagine your group works for Clif Bar (www.clifbar.com). Founded in 1992, the firm makes nutritious, all-natural food and drinks for sport and healthy snacking. Clif Bar is a privately held company with some 400 employees. About
As noted in the chapter, firms can have very distinctive cultures. Recall that Zappos has a standing offer to pay any new hire one month’s salary to quit the company after orientation. Zappos makes this offer to help ensure that those who stay with the company are comfortable in its “create fun
Your classmates are a group of friends who have decided to open a small retail shop. The team is torn between two storefront ideas. The first idea is to open a high-end antique store selling household items used for decoration in upscale homes. Members of the teamhave found a location in a heavily
The chapter describes Daniel Pink’s ROWE theory of motivation, in which he argued that the most powerful motivation occurs when there is an interest in the work and the work itself has meaning. Intrinsic motivation is highest when an employee has autonomy (about what to do), mastery (how to do
Uber is a highly valued “unicorn,” with a high disregard for regulations and other external factors that would slow its growth as discussed in this chapter. Other competing firms are taking a somewhat different route to the ride-hailing marketplace. For example, Lyft (discussed in Chapter Case
The MBA oath (shown in Exhibit 12.4) says in part, “My decisions affect the well-being of individuals inside and outside my enterprise, today and tomorrow.” One example of a large firm reorienting toward this approach is PepsiCo. In the last few years, PepsiCo has been contracting directly with
Generation Y (born between 1980 and 2001) is entering the work force and advancing their careers now, as the baby boomers begin to retire in large numbers. Given the smaller size of Gen Y compared to the baby boomers, this generation received much more individual attention from their immediate and
As noted in the chapter, the average compensation for a CEO of an S&P 500 company in 2017 was $11 million, and CEO pay was 300 times the average worker pay. This contrasts with historic values of between 25 and 40 times the average pay. In 2015 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

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