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Strategic management is defined as the process of evaluation, planning, and implementation designed to maintain or improve competitive advantage. The process of evaluation is concerned with assessment of the external and internal environments. Planning involves developing business models, corporate direction, competitive tactics, international strategy, acquisitions, and collaborative action. The implementation phase requires leadership to build the appropriate organizational structure, develop management culture, control the strategic processes, and steer the organization through ethical corporate governance. The outcomes of strategic activity are visible in the change in revenues, market shares, profits, and return on investment for stakeholders. The outcomes create a feedback loop which in turn affects the external and internal environment of the organization.
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strategic management
Tanya Sammut-Bonnici
CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW
Strategic management is dened as the process
of evaluation, planning, and implementation
designed to maintain or improve compet-
itive advantage. The process of evaluation
is concerned with the external and internal
environments. Planning involves developing
business models, corporate direction, competi-
tive tactics, international strategy, acquisitions,
and collaborative action. The implementa-
tion phase requires leadership to build the
appropriate organizational structure, develop
management culture, control the strategic
processes, and steer the organization through
corporate governance (Figure 1).
Firms are observed to use two perspectives
when going through the strategic management
process of analysis: planning and implementa-
tion.
Resource-based view. This perspective suggests
that a rm’s unique internal resources are the
critical determinant of strategic competitive-
ness. If a rm’s resources are unique, difcult
to imitate, and without close substitutes that
competitors can adopt, they will create compet-
itive advantage. When these conditions are
maintained over time, the rm’s resources will
create the foundations for sustainable long-term
competitive advantage.
Industrial organization. This is the second
perspective, which assumes that the external
environment determines the strategic actions a
rm can deploy. The corollary of this concept is
that a rm should identify and seek to operate
in environments that allow strategic activity
creating competitiveness and protability.
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROCESS
International competition has increased the
accessibility that customers have to products
around the globe. Intense competition has called
for a concerted effort to build strategic action
through the process of environmental evalu-
ation, developing a set of strategic plans and
implementing them.
Phase 1: Strategic evaluation. The strategic
management process starts with an in-depth
evaluation of the internal organizational envi-
ronment and the external environment. The
evaluation is a component of SWOT analysis
(internal strengths and weaknesses, external
opportunities and threats).
The main components of an internal anal-
ysis are the rm’s resources (such as premises,
machinery, nancial capital, human capital, and
distribution networks), which can be combined
and developed into capabilities. Examples of
capabilities are
developing innovative technology products,
reducing the time to market,
creating more efcient distribution channels
and retail outlets,
capturing the consumer’s attention through
marketing, and
managing customer relationships for long-
term brand loyalty.
Capabilities are converted into core compe-
tences, which are difcult to imitate and lead to
a position of competitive advantage. An internal
analysis evaluates how they can be developed
to continue creating competitive advantage for
the rm.
The external macroenvironment consists of
variables that are beyond the control of an orga-
nization, but require analysis in order to realign
corporate and marketing strategy to shifting
business environments. Firms are affected
by forces that can be political, economic,
social, or technological (summarized in the
mnemonic PEST) as well as legal, ecological,
demographical, ethical, or regulatory.
Phase 2: Planning strategic activity. A compre-
hensive set of strategic plans would include a
roadmap for the rm’s business-level, corporate-
level, competitive, international, collaborative,
and acquisition strategies:
1. Business strategy is formulated around
the customer perspective and aim for lead-
ership and differentiation in both product
and pricing policies. The business-level
strategy denes which customer segments
and needs will be addressed, and how the
customer need will be satised.
Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, edited by Professor Sir Cary L Cooper.
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2 strategic management
Business strategy
Corporate strategy
International
strategy
Mergers and
acquisitions
Internal
environment
Leadership
Corporate governance
External
environment
Strategic
evaluation
Planning
strategic
activity
Implementation
of strategic
activity
Outcome of
strategic action:
Competitive
strategy
Collaboration
strategy
Phase 1
Phase 2
Performance feedback on
Phase 3
Phase 4
Management factors
Environmental factors
Competitiveness,
market shares,
profits and growth
Internal and external environment
Strategic plans
Figure 1 Components of strategic management. Source: Adapted from McGee, Thomas, and Wilson (2010) and Hitt,
Ireland, and Hosskisson (2012).
2. Corporate strategy denes how the rm
can widen its scale of operation from a single
business to a portfolio of businesses, oper-
ating in international markets. The strategy
helps companies with strategic positioning
of their products and brand.
3. Competitive strategy focuses on how the
rm will defend and protect its resources,
capabilities, and core competences that have
created its current competitive advantage.
This part of the plan includes reactive stra-
tegies that preserve the current core compe-
tences, and proactive responses that develop
the rm’s competences even further.
4. International strategy denes which
products and businesses are assigned to
different geographic regions and countries.
International corporations are observed to
use three types of international strategies:
national, global, and transnational.
National strategy is created for each country
in which the rm operates. The strategy is
sensitive to the national context and builds
on the knowledge of the local competitive
landscape. It denes the products, pricing
policies, distribution strategies, and adver-
tising campaigns for each country. National
strategies may include country-specic
procurement policies, manufacturing, and
human resource management. National
strategies are instrumental in creating the
core competences of a rm which are later
aggregated into global and transnational
strategies. When a rm operates in several
countries, the complexity of handling too
many national strategies would lead the
rm to introduce a more harmonized global
approach.
Global strategy determines the standard-
ization of products and processes across
strategic management 3
geographic boundaries and harmonizes
national strategies into a more homoge-
neous format. The objective is to reduce the
complexity of managing diverse markets,
lower the need for local responsiveness,
and gain economies of scale. With a global
strategy in place, best practices are easier to
replicate across different locations. Global
strategies work when the customer needs
are similar across the different markets.
Another prerequisite for a global strategy to
work is the standardization of operational
and nancial reporting, which provides
head ofce with the tools of analysis and
control.
Transnational strategy integrates the bene-
ts of both national strategies and global
strategies. It aims to emphasize local sensi-
tivity and increasing local responsiveness
while standardizing operations in different
regions in order to gain from economies of
scale. The duality of the strategy makes it
difcult to conceptualize and implement.
Successful transnational strategies are built
around a strong common vision for local
orientation and an equally strong oper-
ational infrastructure which is common
across different countries. It requires a
substantial investment in infrastructure and
managerial resources.
HSBC has embraced the role of “world’s
local bank,” which epitomizes the essence
of transnational strategy. However, post
the recession in 2011 the bank declared it
would have to abandon the concept as costs
to maintain an intensive local sensitivity was
spiraling. Lower prot margins were placing
pressure on the rm to focus more on oper-
ational efciency and standardization across
all geographic regions.
5. Collaboration strategy is based on both
competition and cooperation between a
rm and its competitors, suppliers, distrib-
utors, partners, and regulators. The most
common motives for rms to engage in
collaboration are to develop larger markets,
improve industry standards, spread the
costs of research and development, and
increase consumer awareness for the benet
of all the industry players.
In the communications industry, Vodafone,
T Mobile, and Orange, among others, coop-
erate to maintain interconnected telephony
platforms, which in turn generate a larger
subscriber base for the industry. Coopera-
tion in telecommunications is ubiquitous.
It created compatible communications
networks, uniform technology standards
(such as global system for mobile (GSM),
universal mobile telecommunications
system (UMTS), and 3G), and facilitated
the coordination of complex subscriber
billing across networks and borders.
6. Mergers and acquisitions strategies are
carried out to improve a rm’s competitive
position through two main venues. First,
economies of scale and synergies are gained
from combining similar operations and
overhead costs. Second, core competences
are bought in, which are otherwise difcult
to replicate. Firms would gain access to
new products, new distribution networks,
established customer bases, and nancial
resources.
International mergers and acquisitions were
dominant strategies in the 1990s. In more
recent corporate history, rms are favoring
the more exible and adaptive collaborative
strategies over the high cost and commit-
ment of mergers and acquisitions.
In international mergers and acquisitions,
the inefcient integration and develop-
ment of the incumbent cultures may cause
strategic challenges. During the integration
process of the two rms, much attention
is given to drawing synergies through cost
reduction at the expense of developing new
strategies. The leading party in a merger
tends to force its managerial culture and
mode of operation on the target organiza-
tion. Managers assume that the methods
deployed to run the original organization
will function equally well in creating a new
strategy involving new corporate partners.
The misplaced paradigm often leads to the
inefcient distribution of physical resources
and tacit capabilities, and eventually leads
to strategic drift.
Phase 3: Implementation of strategic activity. It
requires two main capabilities: leadership and
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corporate governance. Strategic leadership is
necessary to communicate the vision of the rm
and objectives of the strategic plans (outlined
above) to the management level. Leadership
captures the cognitive side of management
which goes beyond nancial performance
measurement. It can be the source of motiva-
tion, empowerment creativity, and innovation,
which often are required to steer rms out of
challenging situations. Corporate governance
is a rm’s underlying infrastructure that facil-
itates and controls strategic action. It provides
a monitor for ethical behavior and regulatory
compliance. Corporate governance determines
the relationships among the shareholders, the
board of directors, and the company’s manage-
ment. The traditional mechanisms of corporate
governance were the stakeholders, the board
of directors, and executive compensation. The
triad of control mechanisms has come under
criticism and scrutiny. Trends in corporate
governance are to include business performance
measurement and stakeholder feedback with
traditional nancial measures of control.
Phase 4: Outcomes of strategic activity. These
are visible in increases in revenues, market
shares, prots, and return on investment for
stakeholders. The outcomes create a feedback
loop, which in turn affects the external and
internal environment of the organization.
See also strategic management
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