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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Final Examination: MGT 404: Strategic Management


MANARAT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (MIU)
Department of Business Administration (DBA)
Program: BBA. Semester: Spring-2011. Section: 20th M & F
Final Examination
Course Title- MGT 404: Strategic Management
Time: 02.30 hrs.                                                                                                             Full Marks: 50

Ø   Give Correct Answer of All questions.
Ø   Chronological Answer of Questions is a Must.
Ø   Wrong Answer may lead to the Negative Marking.
Ø  After Completion of the Examination Return the Question Paper with the Answer Script.

01. (a) Define resource strength. Identify several forms of resource strengths of a diversified company.
      (b) What tests a company has to pass to prove the competitive power of its resource strength?
      (c) List a set of questions, the answer of which helps a co. to reveal its overall situation (with the help of SWOT listing).
      (d) What do you know about the concepts Benchmarking and Core Competencies?
      (e) How the components of a single-business company’s strategy can be identified? Exhibit.

02. (a) Summarise and exhibit the five distinct competitive strategy approaches which the company may follow.
     (b) When a low-cost provider strategy works best?
      (c) When a differentiation strategy works best?
      (d) Do you have any idea about the pitfalls of a differentiation strategy?
      (e) Define in brief the perceived value and the signaling value.

03. (a) Why companies expand into foreign markets?
      (b) List some common strategy options for entering & competing in foreign markets.
      (c) When a company should concentrate its activities in a few locations?
      (d) State three additional types of offensive strategies which are suited to companies competing in foreign markets.
      (e) How a localized or multicountry strategy differs from a global strategy? Show in a figure.

04. (a) Who is the father of modern management? Summarise the principles of modern management.
      (b) Who is the father of scientific management? State the principles of scientific management.
      (c) Write short notes on MBO and MBE.

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