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Global StrategyGlobal StrategyMike W. PengMike W. Peng
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Global Strategic ManagementGlobal Strategic ManagementMike W. PengMike W. Peng
Chapter 1
Strategy Around the
Globe
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Why Study Global Strategy?
• Job and career aspiration opportunities
• Awareness of what is going on in the world
• Avoid downside risks of globalization
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What is Strategy?
• Origin-Greek word (strategos)-art of the general Sun Tzu, Chinese military strategist in 500 B.C.
Modern-day application to business and competition dates to the 1960s
• Plan versus Action - strategy is “explicit, rigorous formal planning” versus “a set of flexible, goal-oriented actions”
• Strategy as Theory-how to compete successfully Firms have both intended and emergent strategies
One firm’s strategies may not work in all situations
Past success does not guarantee future success
It is often difficult to change strategy
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What is Strategy? Cont’d
Strategy should give coherence to decisions and actions
Managers must exert effective strategic leadership
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What Is Strategy?
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The Essence of Strategy
Figure 1.3
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Our definition: Strategy as theory
• Integrating both planning and action schools
• Leveraging the concept of “theory” A theory serves two purposes: Explanation and
prediction
• Requiring replications and experimentationsTo establish the temporal (time-related) and
geographic limits of an existing theory
• Understanding the difficulty of strategic change
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Fundamental Questions in Strategy
• Why do firms differ? Cultural differences between Western firms and Japanese
companies
Networks of relationships have powerful effect - keiretsu, guanxi, chaebol, blat
• How do firms behave? Industry-based view - focus on competitive forces within an
industry that impact all firms
Resource-based (capabilities) view - focus on internal strengths and weaknesses, firm specific resources and capabilities
Institution-based view - focus on government and societal forces
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Fundamental Questions in Strategy cont’d
• What determines the scope of the firm?
• What determines the international success or failure of firms? Industry-based view - degree of
competitiveness in the industry
Resource-based view - firm specific differences in capabilities
Institution-based view - institutional forces, such as economic reforms and government policy
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The “Strategy Tripod”Three Leading Perspectives on
Strategy
Figure 1.4
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What Is Global Strategy?
• Provide standardized products and/or services on a worldwide basis (i.e., traditional view)
• Any strategy outside one’s home country
• Our definition of global strategy:Strategies of firms around the globe
Both international and non-international (domestic)Both developed and emerging economies
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What is Globalization?
• A new phenomenon since the late 20th century?
• A part of long-run human history?
• A pendulum view: Transportation and communication revolutions + breakdown of artificial barriers in trade and investment
A process similar to the swing of a pendulum: Postwar history
Semiglobalization?
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Global Strategy and Globalization at a Crossroads
• Three Defining Events - have brought corporate social responsibility, ethics, and governance to the forefront of strategic decisions
Anti-globalization protests - lost jobs, downward pressure on wages for unskilled labor, environmental destruction
Terrorist attacks
Corporate governance crisis (Asian financial crisis, U.S. scandals)
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Global Strategy and Globalization at a Crossroads, Cont’d.
•Know Yourself, Know Your Opponents
Understand strengths AND limitations
Recognize the social, political, and environmental costs associated with globalization
Current business school students exhibit values and beliefs different from the general public
Be aware of bias and strategic blind spots
Do not ignore non-government organizations (NGOs)-view them as partners