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Strategic Management Text and Cases 11e Gregory Dess,
Gerry McNamara, Alan Eisner, Steve Sauerwald
Table of Contents
PART 1: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
1. Strategic Management: Creating Competitive
Advantages
2. Analyzing the External Environment of the Firm 3.
Assessing the Internal Environment of the Firm 4.
Recognizing a Firm’s Intellectual Assets: Moving beyond a
Firm’s Tangible Resources
PART 2: STRATEGIC FORMULATION
5. Business-Level Strategy: Creating and Sustaining
Competitive Advantages
6. Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value through
Diversification
7. International Strategy: Creating Value in Global
Markets
8. Entrepreneurial Strategy and Competitive Dynamics
PART 3: STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION
9. Strategic Control and Corporate Governance 10.
Creating Effective Organizational Designs 11. Strategic
Leadership: Creating a Learning Organization and an
Ethical Organization
12. Managing Innovation and Fostering Corporate
Entrepreneurship
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Chapter 1. Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages
Student name:__________
1) The success of Apple under its former CEO, Steve Jobs, was largely attributed to the quality
of its leader. According to the text, this would be an example of the “romantic” perspective
of leadership.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) Strategic management consists of the analyses, decisions, and actions an organization
undertakes in order to create and sustain competitive advantages.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Management innovations such as total quality, just-in-time, benchmarking, business process
reengineering, and outsourcing are important but not enough for building sustainable
competitive advantage.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Trade-off decisions between effectiveness and efficiency are important in the practice of
strategic management.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) According to the textbook, digitizing existing business processes rarely improves efficiency.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) A company that digitizes existing processes may achieve operational excellence on an
outdated value proposition. Airbnb is an example of a company that entered the market with
a superior digital offering, competing against hotels that had only digitized processes.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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7) According to Henry Mintzberg, a management scholar, most firms do not realize their
original intended strategy.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) The final realized strategy of a firm is a combination of deliberate and time-tested strategies
only.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Strategy analysis is the study of only the big picture external environments of the firm.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) All successful firms compete and outperform their rivals by developing bases for competitive
advantage, which can be achieved only through cost leadership.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) The three primary participants in corporate governance are:
1. (1) the shareholders,
2. (2) the management (led by the chief executive officer),
3. and (3) the employees.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) Decisions by boards of directors are always consistent with shareholder interests.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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Strategic Management Text and Cases 11e Gregory Dess,
Gerry McNamara, Alan Eisner, Steve Sauerwald
Table of Contents
PART 1: STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
1. Strategic Management: Creating Competitive
Advantages
2. Analyzing the External Environment of the Firm 3.
Assessing the Internal Environment of the Firm 4.
Recognizing a Firm’s Intellectual Assets: Moving beyond a
Firm’s Tangible Resources
PART 2: STRATEGIC FORMULATION
5. Business-Level Strategy: Creating and Sustaining
Competitive Advantages
6. Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value through
Diversification
7. International Strategy: Creating Value in Global
Markets
8. Entrepreneurial Strategy and Competitive Dynamics
PART 3: STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION
9. Strategic Control and Corporate Governance 10.
Creating Effective Organizational Designs 11. Strategic
Leadership: Creating a Learning Organization and an
Ethical Organization
12. Managing Innovation and Fostering Corporate
Entrepreneurship
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Student name:__________
1) The success of Apple under its former CEO, Steve Jobs, was largely attributed to the quality
of its leader. According to the text, this would be an example of the “romantic” perspective
of leadership.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) Strategic management consists of the analyses, decisions, and actions an organization
undertakes in order to create and sustain competitive advantages.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) Management innovations such as total quality, just-in-time, benchmarking, business process
reengineering, and outsourcing are important but not enough for building sustainable
competitive advantage.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Trade-off decisions between effectiveness and efficiency are important in the practice of
strategic management.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) According to the textbook, digitizing existing business processes rarely improves efficiency.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) A company that digitizes existing processes may achieve operational excellence on an
outdated value proposition. Airbnb is an example of a company that entered the market with
a superior digital offering, competing against hotels that had only digitized processes.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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7) According to Henry Mintzberg, a management scholar, most firms do not realize their
original intended strategy.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) The final realized strategy of a firm is a combination of deliberate and time-tested strategies
only.
⊚ true
⊚ false
9) Strategy analysis is the study of only the big picture external environments of the firm.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) All successful firms compete and outperform their rivals by developing bases for competitive
advantage, which can be achieved only through cost leadership.
⊚ true
⊚ false
11) The three primary participants in corporate governance are:
1. (1) the shareholders,
2. (2) the management (led by the chief executive officer),
3. and (3) the employees.
⊚ true
⊚ false
12) Decisions by boards of directors are always consistent with shareholder interests.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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