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98 Part 1: Strategic Management Inputs Alternatively, the firm could decide to outsource a function or activity where it is weak ...

Chapter 3: The Internal Organization: Resources, Capabilities, Core Competencies, and Competitive Advantages 99 provides the bas ...

100 Part 1: Strategic Management Inputs Mini-Case Zara: The Capabilities behind the Spanish “Fast Fashion” Retail Giant Amancio ...

Chapter 3: The Internal Organization: Resources, Capabilities, Core Competencies, and Competitive Advantages 101 Sources: E. Car ...

102 Part 1: Strategic Management Inputs D. Piaskowska & G. Trojanowski, 2014, Twice as smart: The importance of managers’ f ...

Chapter 3: The Internal Organization: Resources, Capabilities, Core Competencies, and Competitive Advantages 103 competitive beh ...

104 Part 1: Strategic Management Inputs J.-Y. Lee, D. G. Bachrach, & D. M. Rousseau, 2015, Internal labor markets, firm-spe ...

Chapter 3: The Internal Organization: Resources, Capabilities, Core Competencies, and Competitive Advantages 105 H. A. Ndofor, ...

106 Part 1: Strategic Management Inputs R. Kapoor & N. R. Furr, 2015, Complementarities and competition: Unpacking the driv ...

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4 Business-Level Strategy Studying this chapter should provide you with the strategic management knowledge needed to: 4-1 Define ...

This chapter is about a firm’s business-level strategy, and what it takes to be successful in creating a strategy that allows a ...

110 To deal with the slump, different strategic approaches have been taken. Smucker’s, for example, has moved into pet food thro ...

Chapter 4: Business-Level Strategy 111 the actions taken to achieve them. Information about a host of variables including mar- k ...

112 Part 2: Strategic Actions: Strategy Formulation Descriptions of the purpose of business-level strategies—and of the five bus ...

Chapter 4: Business-Level Strategy 113 recognized for the quality of information it maintains about its customers, the services ...

114 Part 2: Strategic Actions: Strategy Formulation 4-1c Who: Determining the Customers to Serve Deciding who the target custome ...

Chapter 4: Business-Level Strategy 115 may lose its customers to competitors whose products can provide more value to the focal ...

116 Part 2: Strategic Actions: Strategy Formulation of rivals’ products or services to gain or sustain a competitive advantage. ...

Chapter 4: Business-Level Strategy 117 4-3 Types of Business-Level Strategies Firms choose between five business-level strategie ...