Test Bank for Strategy Theory and Practice, 4th Edition by Stewart R Clegg
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Test Bank for Strategy Theory and Practice 4e 4th Edition by Stewart R Clegg, Christos Pitelis, Jochen Schweitzer. Full Chapters (Chapter 1 to 12) are included with answers. This document has Multiple Choice questions for all chapters.
Chapter 1 Strategy: Theory and Practice – An Introduction
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Test Bank for Strategy Theory and Practice, 4th Edition by Stewart R Clegg, Christos Pitelis
Complete Chapters (Chap 1-12) included ✅
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Test Bank
Chapter 1: Strategy: Theory and practice – An
introduction
Below are a number of multiple-choice questions relevant to this chapter. There are two to
three variations on the same questions. Each question has four options; the correct answer is
written in the final column. Some questions are very simple, while others are much more
difficult; this should be considered when setting quizzes or exams.
Example of possible instruction to students:
For each of the following questions, read each question carefully and then choose the answer
you believe is most correct:
Question and options # Ans.
Strategy is all about: 1 A
a. foresight and a holistic view of the firm
b. the short-term objectives of the firm and ways of meeting them
c. defining marketing goals and targets
d. enhancing sales performance
What makes strategizing necessary? 2 D
a. rapid changes in the business landscape
b. more sophisticated organizational structures
c. pressure to innovate
d. all of these
Which of the following were not influential origins of business strategy? 3 C
a. military strategy
b. political strategy
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c. sports strategy
d. all of these
How do modern conceptions of strategy relate to classical conceptions? 4 C
a. they are the same
b. there is no relation
c. as legitimations for current views
d. none of these
Machiavelli’s contribution to strategy suggests that: 5 A
a. remaining powerful is the highest priority
b. listening to your employees’ needs is of utmost importance
c. delegation of authority enhances team performance
d. none of these
Based on Clausewitz’s arguments, we can infer that: 6 C
a. strategy is based on a predetermined wisdom and rational thinking.
b. strategy unfolds sequentially yet rationally.
c. strategy has a non-rationalistic element in it, induced by passions and
feelings.
d. strategy is based on a predetermined wisdom and rational thinking and
strategy unfolds sequentially and in a linear fashion.
The establishment of modern-day strategy as a discipline can be traced 7 A
back to:
a. economic history analysis of the emergence of US business
b. the industrial revolution in northern England
c. the 1980s, with the advent of large US multinational corporations
d. the 1930s, drawn from social psychology
Modern conceptions of strategy as planning played a major role in the 8 C
success of the victors in:
a. the First World War
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b. the Peloponnesian Wars
c. the Second World War
d. the War of the Worlds
Which of the following was a crucible of early strategy thinking? 9 C
a. Marks & Spencer’s
b. Zara
c. West Point
d. Ancient Greece
What is the Red Queen effect? 9 C
a. bureaucracy
b. checkmate
c. when competitors constantly evolve together to reach what is only ever
a provisional and uneasy balance of power
d. the revolutionary strategy of Rosa Luxemburg
Which of the following is an example of the Red Queen effect? 10 C
a. checkmate in chess
b. female revolutionary strategist Rosa Luxemburg
c. The Cold War
d. all of these
According to Chandler’s Strategy and Structure, which of the following 11 C
was vital for the emergence of a national business strategy by US
corporations?
a. typewriters
b. electricity
c. railways
d. slaughterhouses
Chandler is famous for: 12 A
a. seeing strategy as leading to structure
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b. seeing structure as leading to strategy
c. seeing strategy and structure as co-evolving
d. none of these
Which of the following does NOT feature in Igor Ansoff’s levels of 13 B
action towards planning?
a. operational
b. inter-organizational
c. administrative
d. strategic
A main feature of Ansoff’s logic is that strategy is the exclusive territory 14 B
of:
a. marketing managers
b. top management
c. sales managers
d. the founder of the company
Edith Penrose focuses on the role of: 15 C
a. technology
b. capital
c. resources
d. network
Sustained competitive advantage depends on firms developing unique 16 A
combinations of ______, providing competencies that allow for
flexible development in an uncertain and changing environment.
a. resources
b. capital
c. technologies
d. people
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