Chapter 1- Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness
Risk
an investor's uncertainty about the economic gains or losses that will result from a particular investment.
Core competencies
are capabilities that serve as a source of competitive advantage for a firm over its rivals.
Global Economy
is open in which goos, services, people, skills, and ideas move freely across demographic borders.
Organizational culture
refers to the complex set of ideologies, symbols, and core values that are shared throughout the firm and that influences how the firm conducts business.
Strategic management process
the full set of commitments, decisions, and actions required for a firm to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above-average returns.
Strategy
an integrated and coordinated set of commitments and actions designed to exploit core competencies and gain a competitive advantage.
Strategic Flexibility
A set of capabilities used to respond to various demands and opportunities existing in a dynamic and uncertain competitive environment.
Strategic Competitiveness
Is achieved when a firm successfully formulates and implements a value creating strategy.
Capability
Is the capacity for a set of resources to perform a task or an activity in a integrative manner.
Competitive Advantage
When it implements a strategy competitors are unable to duplicate or find too costly to try to imitate.
Strategic leaders
are people located in different parts of the firm using the strategic management prices to help the firm reach its vision and mission.
Average returns
are returns equal to those an investor expects to earn from other investments with a similar amount of risk
Above-average returns
are returns in excess of what an investor expects to earn from other investments with a similar amount of risk.
Stakeholders
are the individuals and groups who can affect the firm's vision and mission, are affected by the strategic outcomes achieved, and have enforceable claims on the firm's performance.
Profit Pool
entails the total profits earned in a industry at all points along the value chain.
Resources
inputs into a firm's production process, such as capital equipment, the skills of individual employees, patents, finances, and talented managers.
Vision
is a picture of what the firm wants to be and, in broad terms, what it wants to ultimately achieve.
Mission
specifies the business or businesses in which the firms intends to compete and the customers it intends to serve.