Strategic Choices in Corporate Management

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What is the focus of strategic choices?

  • Strategic intensification, strategic diversification, and strategic exits (correct)
  • Combination strategies and strategic alliances
  • Relative costs & risks and benefits of corporate strategies
  • Formulating strategic options

What is strategy described as?

  • A passive approach to business decision-making
  • A deliberate search for a plan of action to develop competitive advantage (correct)
  • An automatic process that leads to optimal performance
  • A random sequence of actions to achieve business success

What does strategy formulation involve?

  • Delegation of decision making to business units
  • Random allocation of resources
  • Well thought of decision making and allocation of resources (correct)
  • Hasty decision making without coordination

At what levels are strategies formulated?

<p>Different levels of an organization (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of combination strategies and strategic alliances?

<p>Necessitate coordination of strategies for optimal performance (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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Strategic Choices

  • Focus on reconciling trade-offs, allocating resources, and prioritizing opportunities to achieve organizational goals.

Strategy Definition

  • Described as a plan of action to achieve organizational goals, taking into account internal and external environments.

Strategy Formulation

  • Involves analyzing the organization's internal and external environments, identifying opportunities and threats, and making decisions about how to allocate resources to achieve strategic goals.

Levels of Strategy Formulation

  • Formulated at three levels: corporate, business, and functional.

Combination Strategies and Strategic Alliances

  • Purpose is to create competitive advantage by combining the strengths of multiple organizations or businesses to achieve shared goals or overcome shared challenges.

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