INTL 4400 Study Guide - Final Guide: Theodore Levitt, Knowledge Transfer, Motivation

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Threat of new entrants: differentiation, scale, cost advantages, switching costs, capital outlays, distribution. Buyers: more buyers, product is unimportants, lots of suppliers, makes a large part of the business, threat of backward integration. Rivalry: number, industry growth, capacity, differentiation, exit barriers. Mobility barriers: factors that deter movement from one strategic position to another. Firm into various activities that help us understand the ways inputs are deployed and costs are incurred relationships. Five primary activities: outbound (, operations, inbound log, marketing and sales, and service. Support activities: general administration, hrm, technology development, procurement. Rbv: looks at the firm as a bundle of resources. Competitive advantage, based on tangible/intangible resources and core competencies. Path dependay, causual ambiguity, physical uniqueness, social complexity. Balanced scorecard: instead of using financial ratios that only look at expenses, balanced scorecard looks at different measures that assess overall business. Innovation: can we continue to improve and create value: sales, maturity time, next generation time.