Question 1. How does internal analysis fit within a SWOT approach?
Question 2. How does a firm's industry life cycle impact strategy formulation? What competencies and skills are needed at which evolutionary stage?
Question 3. What is the social responsibility (CSR) of the firm in a competitive marketplace?
Question 4. How does the stakeholder approach assist in developing CSR strategies?
Question 5. What is the difference between a merger and an acquisition? Which seems riskier? Why?
Question 6. Why would a firm use joint ventures, strategic alliances, and outsourcing? How do these strategies reduce risk?
Question 7. Mergers and Acquisitions are once again becoming "popular" - explain why!
Question 8. What are the opportunities and threats of a firm which employs a single or dominant product business model?
Question 8. What are the opportunities and threats of a single product/dominant product firm in emerging industries, transition industries, mature, declining, and fragmented industries?
Question 9. Give two examples of a single/dominant product firms, their competitive strategy, and why that strategy fits or does not fit their industry life cycle.