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Chapter 5
Competitive Advantage,
Firm Performance, and
Business Models
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Learning Objectives
1. Conduct a firm profitability analysis using accounting data
to assess and evaluate competitive advantage.
2. Apply shareholder value creation to assess and evaluate
competitive advantage.
3. Explain economic value creation and different sources of
competitive advantage.
4. Apply a balanced scorecard to assess and evaluate
competitive advantage.
5. Apply a triple bottom line to assess and evaluate
competitive advantage.
6. Use the why, what, who, and how of business models
framework to put strategy into action.
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An Overview of Frameworks Discussed
Three traditional
frameworks to measure
and assess firm
performance:
• Accounting profitability.
• Shareholder value
creation.
• Economic value creation.
Two integrative
frameworks, combining
quantitative data with
qualitative assessments:
• Balanced scorecard.
• Triple bottom line.
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Three Standard Performance Dimensions
What is the firm’s accounting profitability?
How much shareholder value does the firm create?
How much economic value does the firm generate?
These performance dimensions generally correlate over time:
• Accounting profitability and economic value creation tend to be reflected in the firm’s stock price.
• Determines the stock’s market valuation.
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Accounting Profitability
Accurately assesses
firm performance.
Compares firm
performance to
competitors / industry
average.
Available through:
• Standardized accounting
metrics (GAAP, FASB).
• Form 10-K statements.
• Profitability ratios.
• Return on invested capital
(ROIC), return on equity
(ROE), return on assets
(ROA), and return on
revenue (ROR).
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Drivers of Firm Performance
Exhibit 5.1
Source: Analysis of publicly available data.
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Elements of ROIC Explained
Return on revenue:
• How much of the firm’s sales is converted into profits.
Working capital turnover:
• How effectively capital is being used to generate revenue.
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Return on Revenue Elements
Cost of goods sold (COGS) / Revenue:
• How efficiently a company can produce a good.
Research and development expense / Revenue:
• How much of each dollar earned is invested in R&D.
Selling, general, and administrative expense /
Revenue:
• How much of each dollar earned is invested in SG&A.
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Working Capital Turnover Elements
Working capital / Revenue:
• How much working capital the firm has tied up in its
operations.
PPE / Revenue:
• How much of a firm’s revenues are dedicated to cover
plant, property, and equipment.
• Critical assets and difficult to get rid of.
Intangibles / Revenue:
• Intangibles include patents, copyrights, and trademarks,
goodwill, and brand value.
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Limitations of Accounting Data
Historical and backward-looking.
Does not consider off–balance sheet items:
• For example: pension obligations, operating
leases.
Focuses mainly on tangible assets:
• May not be the most important.
• Consider: innovation, quality, customer
experience.
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The Declining Importance of Book Value in a Firm’s Stock Market Valuation, 1980–2015
Exhibit 5.2
Source: Analysis and
depiction of data from
Compustat, 1980–2015
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Shareholder Value Creation: Definitions
Shareholders
• Own shares of stock, are legal owners of public
companies.
Risk Capital:
• Money provided for an equity share.
• Cannot be recovered if a firm goes bankrupt.
Total Return to Shareholders:
• Stock price appreciation + dividends.
Market Capitalization:
• Dollar value of total shares outstanding.
• Number of outstanding shares x share price.
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Stock Market Valuations of Apple and Microsoft (in $ billion), 1990–2019
Exhibit 5.3
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Limitations of Shareholder Value Creation
Stock prices can be volatile.
• Difficult to assess short-term firm performance.
• This is due to market volatility, external factors and investor
sentiment.
Macroeconomic factors affect stock prices.
• Economic growth or contraction.
• Unemployment, interest and exchange rates.
Stock prices can reflect the mood of investors.
• Investors can be irrational.
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Economic Value Creation
The difference between:
• A buyer’s willingness to pay for a product / service and the
firm’s total cost to produce it.
• The difference between value (V) and cost (C).
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Firm B’s Competitive Advantage: Same Cost as Firm A but Firm B Creates More Economic Value Exhibit 5.4
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Firm C’s Competitive Advantage: Same Total Perceived Consumer Benefits as Firm D but Firm C Creates More Economic Value Exhibit 5.5
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The Role of Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus (Profit)
Exhibit 5.6
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Competitive Advantage and Economic Value Created: The Role of Value, Cost, and Price
Exhibit 5.7
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Opportunity Costs and Limitations of Economic Value Creation
Opportunity costs:
• The value of the best forgone alternative.
Limitations of Economic Value Creation:
• Valuing a consumer good isn’t easy.
• The value of a good changes in the eyes of consumer’s
income, preferences, time, etc.
• To measure firm-level competitive advantage, we must
estimate economic value created for all products and
services offered by the firm.
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The Balanced Scorecard
Helps managers achieve their strategic objectives.
Uses internal and external performance metrics.
Balances both financial and strategic goals.
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Balanced-Scorecard Approach to Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
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Examples of Metrics for the Balanced Scorecard
Customers:
• Revenue, profit, customer satisfaction.
Value Creation:
• Competitiveness, innovation, organizational learning.
Core Competencies:
• Key business processes.
Shareholders:
• Cash flow, operating income, ROIC, ROE, total returns to
shareholders.
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Advantages of the Balanced Scorecard
Links strategic vision to responsible parties.
Translates vision into measurable goals.
Designs and plans business processes.
Implements feedback and organizational learning.
Alerts to needed strategic goal adaptation.
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Disadvantages of the Balanced Scorecard
Focused on implementation,
• Not formulation
How to get back on track if deviations occur.
Lacks guidance:
• Which metrics to use?
• How to address setbacks?
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The Triple Bottom Line
Focus: economic, social and ecological
performance.
Three dimensions:
• Profits: Economic Dimension.
• People: Social Dimension.
• Planet: Ecological Dimension.
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Sustainable Strategy: A Focus on the Triple Bottom Line
Exhibit 5.9
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What Is a Business Model?
Details a firm’s competitive tactics and initiatives.
Explains how the firm:
• Intends to make money.
• Conducts its business with buyers, suppliers, and partners.
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The Why, What, Who, and How of Business Models Framework
Exhibit
5.10
Source: Adapted from
Amit, Raphael and
Zott, Christoph.
“Creating value
through business
model innovation.”
MIT Sloan
Management Review
53, no. 3 (2012): 41–
49.
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Popular Business Models
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Pay as you go: pay for what you consume.
Freemium: pay for extra features / add-ons.
Wholesale: products sold at a discount.
Agency: products sold on commission.
Bundling: more than one product sold at a discount.
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Dynamic Nature of Business Models
Business Models:
• Can be combined.
• Can evolve.
• Can be disrupted.
Businesses must respond to disruption and adapt.
Legal conflicts can arise.
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