$1.$ Explain how resources and capabilities influence competitive dynamics. Find any vietnamese companies for illustration.

$2.$ As a CEO, you feel the price war in your industry is killing profits for all firms. However, you have been warned by corporate lawyers not to openly discuss pricing with rivals, whom you know personally $($you went to school with them$).$ How would you signal your intentions?

$3.$ Some argue that at a $30\%70\%$ failure rate $($depending on different studies$),$ strategic alliances and networks have a strikingly high failure rate and that firms need to scale

down their alliance and network activities. Others suggest that this failure rate is not particularly higher than the failure rate of new entrepreneurial start$-$ups, new product launches, and M&As$.$ Therefore, such a failure

rate is not of grave concern. What do you think?

$4.$ From institution$-$based and resource$-$based views, identify the liability of foreignness confronting MNEs from emerging economies interested in expanding overseas. How can such firms overcome them?