- 1. The first task to be done in Wheelen and Hunger Model is ____?
A) Setting strategic objectives
B) Developing mission statement
C) Environmental Scanning
- 2. _____ tell the results to accomplish by when?
A) Mission
B) Objectives
C) Strategies
- 3. Just like humans has s has its beginning and end.
A) False
B) Sometimes
C) True
- 4. Service cycle is also called____?
A) S-Curve
B) Learning curve
C) Industry life cycle
- 5. The popularization of ____ poses as the biggest threat to business competition.
A) Business technology
B) e-Commerce
C) Cyber business
- 6. Theory of the firm is also referred to as ____?
A) Strategic inflection point
B) Market Structure
C) Triggering event
- 7. According to Bitter and Pierson ____ is an agent of change.
A) Technology
B) Plans
C) Strategy
- 8. The theory of the experience curve is also referred to as___?
A) Life cycle
B) S-curve
C) Learning curve
- 9. The sequence of steps to do the job.
A) Procedure
B) Policies
C) None of these
- 10. Thompson and Strickland model have____ specific task?
A) 5
B) 4
C) 6
- 11. A theory holds that organization can adapt to changing conditions by imitating other successful organization.
A) Institution theory
B) Chamberlin theory
C) Contingency theory
- 12. With the advent of e-commerce, the business world becomes borderless.
A) Perhaps
B) True
C) False
- 13. The plan to achieve the mission and objectives.
A) Policies
B) Strategies
C) Programs
- 14. Back in_____ Strategic management was never heard
A) 1960
B) 1961
C) 1971
- 15. Market structure is also referred to as _____?
A) Institution theory
B) Theory of the firm
C) Resource based theory
- 16. The only thing that is constant in this world is ____?
A) Change
B) Management
C) Strategy
- 17. As a strategy monopolistic firms lower prices in an effort to increase revenue.
A) Sometimes
B) True
C) False
- 18. A market structure characterized by many producers or sellers of a homogenous products.
A) Monopolistic competition
B) Perfect competition
C) Oligopolistic competition
- 19. Considered a branch of microeconomics that emphasizes the influence of industry environment upon the firm.
A) Evolution and revolution
B) Contingency theory
C) Industrial organization theory
- 20. A theory that is somehow similar to contingency theory____?
A) Institution theory
B) Evolution theory
C) Resource based theory
- 21. Change in ownership of a business will not result to a new set of strategy.
A) True
B) False
C) Maybe
- 22. Who coined the term Strategic Inflection Point?
A) Crosby
B) Groove
C) Wheelen
- 23. Business players in the cyberspace are also physically visible just like in the traditional brick -and mortar era.
A) Trru
B) False
C) Always
- 24. The use of internet in doing business resulted to the so called____?
A) cyber business
B) online business
C) e-commerce & e-business
- 25. A theory that has a premise that higher financial returns are associated with those firms that develops beneficial fit with the environment.
A) Chamberlin theory
B) Institution theory
C) Contingency theory
- 26. The theory of economics or diseconomies of scale is similar to ____?
A) Experience curve
B) Learning curve
C) S curve
- 27. A company that operates a wide variety of unrelated fields.
A) Conglomerates
B) Corporation
C) Subsidiaries
- 28. ____ are those partly capitalized or wholly owned by the mother or parent company.
A) Associates
B) Branches
C) Subsidiaries
- 29. An option of adding functionality/improving a product that is currently being offered.
A) Extend
B) Enhance
C) Expand
- 30. ____ spouse the theory that for a business to be on going and profitable it has to adapt to market changes.
A) Charles Darwin
B) Pitts and Lee
C) Andy Groove
- 31. Retrenchment means _____?
A) Downsizing
B) Promoting
C) Retaining
- 32. Business closure operationally means declaring ____?
A) Stoppage
B) Folding up
C) Bankruptcy
- 33. An option making a sacrifice b dropping some product lines and services of business units deemed uncompetitive/profitable.
A) Exit
B) Extend
C) Enhance
- 34. _____ means to prolong the business by going beyond its new current business.
A) Expand
B) Extend
C) Exit
- 35. All except____ are features of e-business.
A) no show room
B) online ordering scheme
C) need a staff to manage
- 36. ____ serves as the core of unifying factor in the over all strategic direction of the entire business.
A) Conglomerate
B) Holding firm
C) Parent company
- 37. The lead organization that influences other small business organization.
A) Parent company
B) Holding firm
C) Subsidiaries
- 38. The mother/parent company has to be concerned with the _____?
A) Budget
B) Plans and programs
C) Corporate strategy
- 39. Which of the following is the result of business reorganization?
A) Consolidation
B) Merging
C) All of these
- 40. Single Proprietorship businesses are registered with ______?
A) DTI
B) SEC
C) BRW
- 41. An undesired act of folding up/shutting down non-profitable business units to control further loss.
A) Business Reorganization
B) Business disposal
C) Business closure
- 42. Strategy and tactics are the same.
A) True
B) Perhaps
C) False
- 43. A strategy that refers to adding product/services with the context of the company's existing business
A) Enhance
B) Extend
C) Expand
- 44. ____ is seeing to it that the strategic business units plays within the industry of the economy it wants to dominate.
A) Coaching
B) Shepherding
C) Mentoring
- 45. _____ are situations and scenarios intervening the business organization on account of factors inherent to the firm.
A) Internal triggering event
B) Triggering event
C) External triggering event
- 46. ____ defined strategic management as a framework that evolves around the idea of shaping the destiny of the organization.
A) Stahl & Grigsby
B) Wright & Kroll
C) Williamson & Jenkins
- 47. As to detail, which is usually broad?
A) None of these
B) Strategy
C) Tactics
- 48. When do you formulate the strategy in business?
A) When the problem arises
B) Before operation
C) During operation
- 49. A plan to attain the outcome consistent with the organizations mission and goals.
A) Strategy
B) Policies
C) Plan
- 50. Strategy as a management game plan aims to achieve the following except_____?
A) Attract & please customers
B) Compete successfully
C) Attract competitors
- 51. When the company does not change any of its current activities it means it is ____?
A) Stable
B) Growing
C) At the peak
- 52. Do subsidiaries and affiliates formulates their own strategy at their level?
A) False
B) True
C) Sometimes
- 53. A growth strategy that in operation may take the form of acquisition or merger.
A) Business Restructuring
B) Business Reorganization
C) Business Acquisition
- 54. ____ is the unloading of some subsidiaries and affiliates deemed less profitable.
A) Business closure
B) Business Reorganization
C) Business disposal
- 55. Status quo comes in the form of pause or no change strategy as postulated by____?
A) Stahl & Grigsby
B) Parnel
C) Wheelen & Hunger
- 56. Business Reorganization may result in _____?
A) Consolidating
B) Restructuring
C) All of these
- 57. Initiatives in developing policies and strategies that comes from the higher management.
A) None of these
B) Top-bottom-top
C) Top-bottom
- 58. Is there any particular situation that policies and strategies collides resulting in dilemma.
A) Never
B) True
C) False
- 59. In business, decision making is a daily if not all the time task or duty.
A) False
B) Perhaps
C) True
- 60. Strategic management is considered as a _____ process?
A) Continuous
B) Crucial
C) Long range
- 61. ____ means asking what is missing in the existing policy that may have been missed resulting to non-achievement of objectives.
A) Performance
B) Policy Strategy profile
C) Gap Analysis
- 62. A set or rules that guides the decisions and actions of the members of the organization.
A) Business Plans
B) Business policy
C) Business Strategy
- 63. "Stratego" as a Greek word refers to ____?
A) Major
B) General
C) Captain
- 64. The first step in the formulation of strategy is _____?
A) Environmental Scanning
B) Market research
C) Business Planning
- 65. The final output of SWOT is the ____?
A) Perspective Plan
B) Strategic Plan
C) Operational Plan
- 66. Product life cycle is sometimes referred to as ____?
A) S-Curve
B) Experience Curve
C) Learning curve
- 67. The reason for existence.
A) Objectives
B) Mission
C) Vision
- 68. Whose model identified a series of six tasks?
A) F.R David
B) Rayport & Jaworsky
C) Thompson & Strickland
- 69. As categorized by Harrigan the____ integration is a short continuum.
A) Forward vertical
B) Vertical integration
C) Quasi-integration
- 70. Concentric is also known as ____ diversification.
A) related
B) unrelated
C) indirect
- 71. Conglomerate is also known as ____ diversification?
A) Indirect
B) Direct
C) Unrelated
- 72. Which component of vertical integration makes 100 percent of its key supplies and completely control its distributions.
A) Taper integration
B) Full integration
C) Long term contract
- 73. The PLDT who investedin, and eventually controlled the SMART Communication Inc. is an example of ____?
A) Vertical diversification
B) Horinzontal diversification
C) Concentric
- 74. The quick way to move into an international business arena by acquiring another company already operating in the area.
A) Franchising
B) Licensing
C) Acquisition
- 75. This scheme comes in the form of a contract of operating facility for a fee.
A) Greenfield development
B) BOT
C) Turnkey operation
- 76. Engaging in business is ____ between the raw materials and the consumers of the product.
A) Channeling
B) Bringing closer
C) Bridging the gap
- 77. The firm grants rights to another company to open a business using the firms business operation.
A) Licensing
B) Exporting
C) Franchising
- 78. An entry that refers to building its own manufacturing plant and distribution system.
A) Turnkey operation
B) Management Contract
C) Greenfield development
- 79. This scheme allows combining resources to pursue a business by sharing the proceeds as agreed upon.
A) Franchising
B) Production sharing
C) Management contract
- 80. Refers to the de-integration of certain business activities narrowing the scope of the firms operation.
A) Outsourcing
B) Turnkey operation
C) Joint venture
- 81. Withdrawal of investment or by selling shares.
A) Liquidation
B) Pause
C) Divestiture
- 82. This means converting to cash whatever is left out of the losing business venture.
A) Liquidation
B) Dissolution
C) Bankruptcy
- 83. What is the shortcoming of Rayport and Jaworski model?
A) No environmental scanning
B) No mission & vision
C) Absence of a system of feedback
- 84. A sort of time out strategy
A) No Change
B) Consolidation
C) Pause
- 85. The model that resembles that of Wheelen and Hunger which considers the importance of environment analysis before mission.
A) Hybrid
B) Pitts-Lee
C) F.R. David
- 86. Reduce the company"s level of current activities.
A) Stability
B) Growth
C) Retrenchment
- 87. Strategic plan is a product of a ____?
A) Policies
B) Process
C) Procedure
- 88. To retrench means_____?
A) All of these
B) Trimming
C) Down-sizing
- 89. A strategy that involves giving up management of the firm to the court.
A) Sell-out
B) Liquidation
C) Bankruptcy
- 90. Form of strategy where it involves a decision to do nothing.
A) No change
B) Profit strategy
C) Pause
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