- 1. The first task to be done in Wheelen and Hunger Model is ____?
A) Setting strategic objectives
B) Environmental Scanning
C) Developing mission statement
- 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) True
C) Sometimes
- 4. Service cycle is also called____?
A) S-Curve
B) Industry life cycle
C) Learning curve
- 5. The popularization of ____ poses as the biggest threat to business competition.
A) Cyber business
B) Business technology
C) e-Commerce
- 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) Strategy
C) Plans
- 8. The theory of the experience curve is also referred to as___?
A) Learning curve
B) Life cycle
C) S-curve
- 9. The sequence of steps to do the job.
A) Procedure
B) None of these
C) Policies
- 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) False
B) True
C) Perhaps
- 13. The plan to achieve the mission and objectives.
A) Policies
B) Strategies
C) Programs
- 14. Back in_____ Strategic management was never heard
A) 1961
B) 1971
C) 1960
- 15. Market structure is also referred to as _____?
A) Resource based theory
B) Institution theory
C) Theory of the firm
- 16. The only thing that is constant in this world is ____?
A) Strategy
B) Management
C) Change
- 17. As a strategy monopolistic firms lower prices in an effort to increase revenue.
A) True
B) Sometimes
C) False
- 18. A market structure characterized by many producers or sellers of a homogenous products.
A) Perfect competition
B) Monopolistic competition
C) Oligopolistic competition
- 19. Considered a branch of microeconomics that emphasizes the influence of industry environment upon the firm.
A) Contingency theory
B) Industrial organization theory
C) Evolution and revolution
- 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) False
B) True
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) Always
B) Trru
C) False
- 24. The use of internet in doing business resulted to the so called____?
A) online business
B) e-commerce & e-business
C) cyber 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) Contingency theory
B) Chamberlin theory
C) Institution 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) Corporation
B) Conglomerates
C) Subsidiaries
- 28. ____ are those partly capitalized or wholly owned by the mother or parent company.
A) Subsidiaries
B) Associates
C) Branches
- 29. An option of adding functionality/improving a product that is currently being offered.
A) Enhance
B) Expand
C) Extend
- 30. ____ spouse the theory that for a business to be on going and profitable it has to adapt to market changes.
A) Pitts and Lee
B) Andy Groove
C) Charles Darwin
- 31. Retrenchment means _____?
A) Promoting
B) Downsizing
C) Retaining
- 32. Business closure operationally means declaring ____?
A) Bankruptcy
B) Folding up
C) Stoppage
- 33. An option making a sacrifice b dropping some product lines and services of business units deemed uncompetitive/profitable.
A) Exit
B) Enhance
C) Extend
- 34. _____ means to prolong the business by going beyond its new current business.
A) Extend
B) Exit
C) Expand
- 35. All except____ are features of e-business.
A) online ordering scheme
B) need a staff to manage
C) no show room
- 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) Holding firm
B) Subsidiaries
C) Parent company
- 38. The mother/parent company has to be concerned with the _____?
A) Corporate strategy
B) Plans and programs
C) Budget
- 39. Which of the following is the result of business reorganization?
A) Merging
B) All of these
C) Consolidation
- 40. Single Proprietorship businesses are registered with ______?
A) BRW
B) DTI
C) SEC
- 41. An undesired act of folding up/shutting down non-profitable business units to control further loss.
A) Business closure
B) Business disposal
C) Business Reorganization
- 42. Strategy and tactics are the same.
A) Perhaps
B) True
C) False
- 43. A strategy that refers to adding product/services with the context of the company's existing business
A) Expand
B) Extend
C) Enhance
- 44. ____ is seeing to it that the strategic business units plays within the industry of the economy it wants to dominate.
A) Mentoring
B) Coaching
C) Shepherding
- 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) During operation
B) When the problem arises
C) Before operation
- 49. A plan to attain the outcome consistent with the organizations mission and goals.
A) Plan
B) Policies
C) Strategy
- 50. Strategy as a management game plan aims to achieve the following except_____?
A) Attract competitors
B) Compete successfully
C) Attract & please customers
- 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 Acquisition
C) Business Reorganization
- 54. ____ is the unloading of some subsidiaries and affiliates deemed less profitable.
A) Business disposal
B) Business closure
C) Business Reorganization
- 55. Status quo comes in the form of pause or no change strategy as postulated by____?
A) Wheelen & Hunger
B) Stahl & Grigsby
C) Parnel
- 56. Business Reorganization may result in _____?
A) Restructuring
B) Consolidating
C) All of these
- 57. Initiatives in developing policies and strategies that comes from the higher management.
A) Top-bottom-top
B) Top-bottom
C) None of these
- 58. Is there any particular situation that policies and strategies collides resulting in dilemma.
A) True
B) Never
C) False
- 59. In business, decision making is a daily if not all the time task or duty.
A) True
B) Perhaps
C) False
- 60. Strategic management is considered as a _____ process?
A) Crucial
B) Long range
C) Continuous
- 61. ____ means asking what is missing in the existing policy that may have been missed resulting to non-achievement of objectives.
A) Gap Analysis
B) Performance
C) Policy Strategy profile
- 62. A set or rules that guides the decisions and actions of the members of the organization.
A) Business Strategy
B) Business Plans
C) Business policy
- 63. "Stratego" as a Greek word refers to ____?
A) General
B) Major
C) Captain
- 64. The first step in the formulation of strategy is _____?
A) Market research
B) Business Planning
C) Environmental Scanning
- 65. The final output of SWOT is the ____?
A) Strategic Plan
B) Operational Plan
C) Perspective Plan
- 66. Product life cycle is sometimes referred to as ____?
A) S-Curve
B) Learning curve
C) Experience Curve
- 67. The reason for existence.
A) Objectives
B) Vision
C) Mission
- 68. Whose model identified a series of six tasks?
A) F.R David
B) Thompson & Strickland
C) Rayport & Jaworsky
- 69. As categorized by Harrigan the____ integration is a short continuum.
A) Vertical integration
B) Quasi-integration
C) Forward vertical
- 70. Concentric is also known as ____ diversification.
A) unrelated
B) indirect
C) related
- 71. Conglomerate is also known as ____ diversification?
A) Unrelated
B) Direct
C) Indirect
- 72. Which component of vertical integration makes 100 percent of its key supplies and completely control its distributions.
A) Full integration
B) Long term contract
C) Taper integration
- 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) Licensing
B) Franchising
C) Acquisition
- 75. This scheme comes in the form of a contract of operating facility for a fee.
A) BOT
B) Greenfield development
C) Turnkey operation
- 76. Engaging in business is ____ between the raw materials and the consumers of the product.
A) Bridging the gap
B) Channeling
C) Bringing closer
- 77. The firm grants rights to another company to open a business using the firms business operation.
A) Exporting
B) Franchising
C) Licensing
- 78. An entry that refers to building its own manufacturing plant and distribution system.
A) Management Contract
B) Turnkey operation
C) Greenfield development
- 79. This scheme allows combining resources to pursue a business by sharing the proceeds as agreed upon.
A) Production sharing
B) Franchising
C) Management contract
- 80. Refers to the de-integration of certain business activities narrowing the scope of the firms operation.
A) Joint venture
B) Turnkey operation
C) Outsourcing
- 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) Dissolution
B) Bankruptcy
C) Liquidation
- 83. What is the shortcoming of Rayport and Jaworski model?
A) Absence of a system of feedback
B) No environmental scanning
C) No mission & vision
- 84. A sort of time out strategy
A) Pause
B) No Change
C) Consolidation
- 85. The model that resembles that of Wheelen and Hunger which considers the importance of environment analysis before mission.
A) Hybrid
B) F.R. David
C) Pitts-Lee
- 86. Reduce the company"s level of current activities.
A) Growth
B) Stability
C) Retrenchment
- 87. Strategic plan is a product of a ____?
A) Process
B) Policies
C) Procedure
- 88. To retrench means_____?
A) Down-sizing
B) Trimming
C) All of these
- 89. A strategy that involves giving up management of the firm to the court.
A) Bankruptcy
B) Liquidation
C) Sell-out
- 90. Form of strategy where it involves a decision to do nothing.
A) Profit strategy
B) Pause
C) No change
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