CANS 406 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - International Law, Feminism, Christianity
12 Oct 2018
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CANS 406
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Intro to Strategic Management
Texbook: Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, Robert E Hoskisson, Strategic Management: Competitiveness
and Globalization (2016)
Key strategic questions and processes
Strategy
• What is strategy ?
o Competitive advantage
o Blueprint to meet company objectives
o Economic growth
• Why is it important ?
o Earn money, make profit
o Meet stakeholders objectives
• Origin of word strategy: art of war, order of general
• Definition of strategy:
• "an integrated and coordinated set of commitments and actions designed to exploit core
competencies and gain a competitive advantage" textbook, p.4
• "an integrated set of actions designed to create a sustainable advantage over competitors"
McKinsey & Company
o Working definition
• Strategy is the path needed in order to get from point A (where we are today) to point B
(where we want to be)
• Involves "long-term" thinking
• Definition of "long term" can vary depending on context
• Most times: multiple strategies that take place concurrently
• Tactics (or actions) are the steps used in order to take the path to your destination
January 11, 2017
POLI 448
What is gender and why does it matter for IR?
-Class perspectives on gender:
-Part of identity
-Social construct, rules tied to female or male behavior
-Scale from femininity to masculinity
-Socially constructed self-identity spectrum
-Comes with normative expectations/stereotypes
-Gender does not equal sex
-Performative
-Peterson and Runyon: sex is “the biological distinction between males and females”
-Reflects a common understanding of sex, but is rather old school
-Sex is classically determined in relation to anatomical and genetic characteristics
-Think of sex as a constantly evolving
-Sex is not necessarily just biological/physical – it is a legal status (indicated on legal
documentation), a political category
-Shepherd: “gender does not ‘read’ from sex in any straight-forward way…sex is as much a
fiction as gender”
-Sex is similarly a social construct
-Moving away from biological foundationalism
-New option for Canadian passports to indicate the option X rather than male or female
(unspecified)
-The legitimacy of “X” as a category is not necessarily widely accepted – Canadian
government cannot guarantee that this will be recognized when you try to enter another
question
-Why indicate sex at all? Passports are a form of identification and classification, a way
of governing human mobility
-In relation to security issues, sex might be a category used to organize and
recognize people
-Government of Pakistan also instituted a similar provision in 2017
-Challenges how sex and gender are perceived
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