Chapter 1
Strategic Management and
Strategic Competitiveness

PART 1 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INPUTS

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Learning Objectives
Studying this chapter should provide you with the strategic management knowledge needed to:
1. Define strategic competitiveness, strategy, competitive advantage, above-average returns, and the strategic management process.
2. Describe the competitive landscape and explain how globalization and technological changes shape it.
3. Use the industrial organization (I/O) model to explain how firms can earn above-average returns.
4. Use the resource-based model to explain how firms can earn above-average returns.
5. Describe vision and mission and discuss their value.
6. Define stakeholders and describe their ability to influence organizations. 7. Describe the work of strategic leaders.
8. Explain the strategic management process.
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Twenty-First Century Competition

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Strategic Competitiveness
Formulation and implementation of a superior valuecreating strategy

Commitments and actions to achieve above-average performance and returns

What the firm will do

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What the firm will not do

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Figure 1.1
Process

The Strategic Management

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Increasing
Increasing

The Global Competitive Landscape
• Market volatility and instability due to the rapid pace of change in markets
• Blurring of market boundaries
• Globalized flow of financial capital
• Need for flexibility, speed, innovation, and integration in the use of technology
• Strategic and operational complexity of global-scale competition
• Rising product quality standards

Decreasing
Decreasing

• Traditional time for adapting to change
• Traditional sources of competitive advantage
• Traditional managerial mindset

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Hypercompetition

Global economy Use of price-quality positioning to build market presence Strategic options in hypercompetitive environments

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Technology

Protection or invasion of established geographic or product markets

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Competitive Success Factors

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