Strategic Management,1/e

6 Corporate Level Strategies

You can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and still be in business tomorrow

—Alfred Chandler

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Identify different strategies adopted by organizations at headquarter-level contrasted with business-level strategies
• Learn different types of strategies adopted by firms with different ambitions and requirements
• Familiarize with the tools used in corporate analysis and resource allocation among different businesses of a firm
• Understand the issues of diversification and how firms maintain focus and identify with inorganic growth trajectories
• Identify the rationale of the firms in strategic decisions of make, buy, ally, swap, or network
• Understand the relevance or irrelevance of core competencies, ...