Chapter 6Corporate-Level Strategy
ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS
Answer any 5 questions –In YOUR OWN WORDS and give real-life examples to illustrate your answers.
1. What is corporate-level strategy and why is it important?
2. What are the different levels of diversification firms can pursue by using different corporate-level strategies?
3. What are three reasons firms choose to diversify their operations?
4. How do firms create value when using a related diversification strategy?
5. What are the two ways to obtain financial economies when using an unrelated diversification strategy?
6. What incentives and resources encourage diversification?
7. What motives might encourage managers to overdiversify their firm?
Chapter 7Merger and Acquisition Strategies
ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS
Answer any five questions – IN YOUR OWN WORDS and give real-life examples to illustrate your answers
1. Why are merger and acquisition strategies popular in many firms competing in the global economy?
2. What reasons account for firms’ decisions to use acquisition strategies as a means to achieving strategic competitiveness?
3. What are the seven primary problems that affect a firm’s efforts to successfully use an acquisition strategy?
4. What are the attributes associated with a successful acquisition strategy?
5. What is the restructuring strategy, and what are its common forms?
6. What are the short- and long-term outcomes associated with the different restructuring strategies?
