Global Strategy Analysis

Module Readings

Complete the following readings early in the module:

· From the textbook, Strategy: A view from the top, read the following chapters:

· What is Strategy

· Analyzing the External Strategic Environment

· Analyzing an Industry Strategy and Performance

· Analyzing the External Strategic Environment (revisited)

· Analyzing an Organization’s Strategic Resource Base

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· From the University online library, read:

· Bower, J. L., & Gilbert, C. G. (2007). How managers' everyday decisions create or destroy your company's strategy. Harvard Business Review, 85(2), 72–79. (ProQuest document ID: 227849756) Retrieved from  http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/ 227849756?accountid=34899

· Decker, C., & Mellewigt, T. (2007). Thirty years after Michael E. Porter: What do we know about business exit? The Academy of Management Perspectives, 21(2), 41–55. (ProQuest document ID: 210514628) Retrieved from  http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/ 210514628?accountid=34899

· Hambrick, D. C., & Fredrickson, J. W. (2005). Are you sure you have a strategy? TheAcademy of Management Executive, 19(4), 51–62. (ProQuest document ID: 210514091) Retrieved from  http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/ 210533087/fulltext?accountid=34899 Armstrong, C., & Shimizu, K. (2007). A review of approaches to empirical research on the resource-based view of the firm. Journal of Management, 33(6), 959–986. (ProQuest document ID: 197137160) Retrieved from  http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/197137160? accountid=34899

· Leung, K., Bhagat, R. S., Buchan, N. R., Erez, M., & Gibson, C. B. (2005). Culture and international business: Recent advances and their implications for future research.Journal of International Business Studies, 36(4), 357–378. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400150

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