# Unique ID Case Ticker Primary Industry Sector
Industry Type
Firm Size Public
Chapter Part 1: Analysis Part 2: Formulation Part 3: Implementation
Retail Mfg Service Tech Primary Secondary
Vision, Mission, Values
Strategic Leadership
Strategy Process
External Analysis
Internal Analysis
Sustainability, Triple Bottom Line
Business Models
Business Strategy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Corporate Strategy
Strategic Alliances
Mergers & Acquisitions
Global Strategy
Structure & Culture
Control & Reward Systems
Corporate Governance
Business Ethics
1 MHE-FTR-037-1259420477 Facebook, Inc. FB Social Media ■ ■ medium yes 5, 6 4, 7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
2 MHE-FTR-030-1259420477 Better World Books and the Triple Bottom Line N/A Retail — ECommerce & Books ■ ■ ■ small no 1, 5 2, 3 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
3 MHE-FTR-032-1259420477 Tesla Motors, Inc. TSLA Electric Cars & Battery Storage ■ ■ ■ medium yes 3, 4 6, 7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
4 MHE-FTR-031-1259420477 Apple, Inc. AAPL Consumer Electronics & Online Services ■ ■ ■ large yes 6, 7 4, 10 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
5 MHE-FTR-040-1259420477 The Movie Exhibition Industry N/A Entertainment ■ ■ medium no 1, 3 5, 6 ■ ■ ■ ■
6 MHE-FTR-038-1259420477 McDonald's Corporation MCD Restaurant—Fast Food ■ ■ large yes 6, 10 3, 4 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
7 MHE-FTR-035-1259420477 Google Inc. GOOG Online Advertising & Information Industry ■ ■ large yes 3, 7 4, 8 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
8 MHE-FTR-039-1259420477 Best Buy Co., Inc. BBY Retail—Consumer Electronics ■ ■ large yes 3, 4 6, 9 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
9 MHE-FTR-028-1259420477 Delta Air Lines, Inc. DAL Airline ■ large yes 6, 10 3, 4 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
10 MHE-FTR-033-1259420477 Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN Retail—Ecommerce & Web Services ■ ■ ■ large yes 3, 8 4, 7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
11 MHE-FTR-029-1259420477 Merck & Co., Inc. MRK Pharmaceutical & Biotech ■ ■ large yes 7, 9 8, 11 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
12 MHE-FTR-034-1259420477 IBM at the Crossroads IBM IT & Big Data ■ ■ large yes 3, 8 6, 7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
13 MHE-FTR-036-1259420477 General Electric after GE Capital GE Conglomerate ■ ■ ■ large yes 8, 11 9, 12 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
14 MHE-FTR-025-1259420477 Grok: Action Intelligence for Fast Data N/A IT & Big Data ■ ■ small no 4, 5 6, 7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
15 MHE-FTR-020-1259420477 Make or Break at RIM: Launching BlackBerry 10 BBRY Consumer Electronics & Services ■ ■ ■ ■ medium yes 3, 7 4, 6 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
16 MHE-FTR-014-1259420477 Genentech: After the Acquisition by Roche RHHB Y Biotechnology ■ ■ large yes 9, 11 7, 8 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
17 MHE-FTR-013-1259420477 UPS in India—A Package Deal? UPS Delivery & Logistics ■ ■ large yes 3, 10 8, 9 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
18 MHE-FTR-007-1259420477 Bank of America and the New Financial Landscape BAC Banking ■ ■ large yes 3, 12 9, 11 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
19 MHE-FTR-011-1259420477 Siemens Energy: How to Engineer a Green Future? SI Energy & Sustainability ■ ■ ■ large yes 8, 9 3, 11 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
20 MHE-FTR-012-1259420477 Infosys Consulting in the U.S.— What to Do Now? INFY IT & Big Data ■ ■ large yes 3, 10 8, 12 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
21 MHE-FTR-005-1259420477 InterfaceRAISE: Raising the Bar in Sustainability Consulting TILE Sustainability Consulting ■ ■ ■ medium yes 2, 11 4, 5 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
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THIRD EDITION
Frank T. Rothaermel Georgia Institute of Technology
Strategic Management
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, THIRD EDITION
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DEDICATION
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PART ONE / ANALYSIS 2
CHAPTER 1 What Is Strategy? 4
CHAPTER 2 Strategic Leadership: Managing the Strategy Process 32
CHAPTER 3 External Analysis: Industry Structure, Competitive Forces, and Strategic Groups 64
CHAPTER 4 Internal Analysis: Resources, Capabilities, and Core Competencies 104
CHAPTER 5 Competitive Advantage, Firm Performance, and Business Models 140
PART TWO / FORMULATION 172
CHAPTER 6 Business Strategy: Differentiation, Cost Leadership, and Blue Oceans 174
CHAPTER 7 Business Strategy: Innovation and Entrepreneurship 208
CHAPTER 8 Corporate Strategy: Vertical Integration and Diversification 252
CHAPTER 9 Corporate Strategy: Strategic Alliances, Mergers and Acquisitions 294
CHAPTER 10 Global Strategy: Competing Around the World 326
PART THREE / IMPLEMENTATION 362
CHAPTER 11 Organizational Design: Structure, Culture, and Control 364
CHAPTER 12 Corporate Governance and Business Ethics 400
PART FOUR / MINICASES 427
HOW TO CONDUCT A CASE ANALYSIS 516
PART FIVE / FULL-LENGTH CASES All available through McGraw-Hill Create, www.McGrawHillCreate.com/Rothaermel
CONTENTS IN BRIEF
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MINICASES / 1 Michael Phelps: Strategy Formulation &
Implementation 428
2 Teach for America: How to Inspire Future Leaders 430 3 PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi: Performance with Purpose 432 4 How the Strategy Process Kills Innovation
at Microsoft 435
5 Strategy and Serendipity: A Billion-Dollar Business 438 6 Apple: What’s Next? 440 7 Starbucks: Schultz Serves Up a Turnaround 443 8 Nike’s Core Competency:
The Risky Business of Fairy Tales 446
9 When Will P&G Play to Win Again? 449 10 Trimming Fat at Whole Foods Market 452 11 Is Porsche Killing the Golden Goose? 454 12 LEGO’s Turnaround: Brick by Brick 457 13 From Good to Great to Gone:
The Rise and Fall of Circuit City 460
14 Cirque du Soleil: Searching for a New Blue Ocean 462 15 Competing on Business Models: Google vs. Microsoft 465 16 Assessing Competitive Advantage: Apple vs.
Blackberry 469
17 Wikipedia: Disrupting the Encyclopedia Business 475 18 Standards Battle: Which Automotive Technology Will
Win? 478
19 “A” Is for Alphabet and “G” Is for Google: Alphabet’s Corporate Strategy and Google’s Strategy Process 480
20 HP’s Boardroom Drama and Divorce 484 21 Hollywood Goes Global 488 22 Does GM’s Future Lie in China? 492 23 Flipkart Is Fulfilling Its Wish and Beating
Amazon.com 494
24 LVMH in China: Cracks Its Empire of Desire? 497 25 Sony vs. Apple: Whatever Happened to Sony? 501 26 Struggling Samsung Electronics 505 27 Alibaba and China’s ECommerce: Reality Bites 509 28 UBS: A Pattern of Ethics Scandals 513 How to Conduct a Case Analysis 516
FULL-LENGTH CASES / All available through McGraw-Hill Create, www.McGrawHillCreate.com/Rothaermel
Facebook, Inc.
Better World Books and the Triple Bottom Line
Tesla Motors, Inc.
Apple, Inc.
The Movie Exhibition Industry +
McDonald’s Corporation
Google Inc.*
Best Buy Co., Inc.
Delta Air Lines, Inc.*
Amazon.com, Inc.
Merck & Co., Inc.
IBM at the Crossroads
General Electric after GE Capital*
Grok: Action Intelligence for Fast Data
Make or Break at RIM: Launching BlackBerry 10
Genentech: After the Acquisition by Roche
UPS in India—A Package Deal?
Bank of America and the New Financial Landscape
Siemens Energy: How to Engineer a Green Future?
Infosys Consulting in the U.S.—What to Do Now?
InterfaceRAISE: Raising the Bar in Sustainability Consulting
MINICASES AND FULL-LENGTH CASES
* NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED FOR THE THIRD EDITION + THIRD-PARTY CASE
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CHAPTERCASES / 1 Does Twitter Have a Strategy? 5 2 Marissa Mayer: Turnaround at Yahoo? 33 3 Tesla Motors and the U.S. Automotive Industry 65 4 Dr. Dre’s Core Competency: Coolness Factor 105 5 The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Apple vs.
Microsoft 141 6 JetBlue: “Stuck in the Middle”? 175 7 Netflix: Disrupting the TV Industry 209 8 How Amazon.com Became the Everything
Store 253 9 Disney: Building Billion-Dollar Franchises 295 10 The Wonder from Sweden: Is IKEA’s Success
Sustainable? 327 11 Zappos: From Happiness to Holacracy 365 12 Uber: Most Ethically Challenged Tech
Company? 401
STRATEGY HIGHLIGHTS / 1.1 Threadless: Leveraging Crowdsourcing to Design
Cool T-Shirts 10 1.2 BP “Grossly Negligent” in Gulf of Mexico
Disaster 20 2.1 Merck: Reconfirming Its Core Values 41 2.2 Starbucks’ CEO: “It’s Not What We Do” 51 3.1 Blackberry’s Bust 71 3.2 The Five Forces in the Airline Industry 74 4.1 Applying VRIO: The Rise and Fall of Groupon 117 4.2 Dynamic Capabilities at IBM 123 5.1 Interface: The World’s First Sustainable
Company 161 5.2 Airbnb: Tapping the Value of Unused Space 162 6.1 Dr. Shetty: “The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery” 189 6.2 How JCPenney Sailed Deeper into the Red
Ocean 198 7.1 How Dollar Shave Club Is Disrupting Gillette 236 7.2 GE’s Innovation Mantra: Disrupt Yourself! 237 8.1 Is Coke Becoming a Monster? 263 8.2 The Tata Group: Integration at the Corporate
Level 276 9.1 IBM and Apple: From Big Brother to Alliance
Partner 301 9.2 Food Fight: Kraft’s Hostile Takeover of
Cadbury 312 10.1 The Gulf Airlines Are Landing in the United
States 334 10.2 Walmart Retreats from Germany 337 11.1 The Premature Death of a Google-like Search
Engine at Microsoft 370 11.2 W.L. Gore & Associates: Informality and
Innovation 374 12.1 GE’s Board of Directors 411 12.2 Did Goldman Sachs and the “Fabulous Fab”
Commit Securities Fraud? 416
CHAPTERCASES & STRATEGY HIGHLIGHTS
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CONTENTS
PART ONE / ANALYSIS 2 CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS STRATEGY? 4
CHAPTERCASE 1 Does Twitter Have a Strategy? 5
1.1 What Strategy Is: Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage 6
What Is Competitive Advantage? 8 Industry vs. Firm Effects in Determining Firm Performance 11
1.2 Stakeholders and Competitive Advantage 12 Stakeholder Strategy 14 Stakeholder Impact Analysis 15
1.3 The AFI Strategy Framework 20 1.4 Implications for the Strategist 22
CHAPTERCASE 1 / Consider This... 23
CHAPTER 2 STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP: MANAGING THE STRATEGY PROCESS 32
CHAPTERCASE 2 Marissa Mayer: Turnaround at Yahoo? 33
2.1 Vision, Mission, and Values 34 Vision 35 Mission 36 Values 36
2.2 Strategic Leadership 40 What Do Strategic Leaders Do? 42 How Do You Become a Strategic Leader? 43 Formulating Strategy across Levels: Corporate, Business, and Functional Managers 43
2.3 The Strategic Management Process 46 Top-Down Strategic Planning 46 Scenario Planning 47 Strategy as Planned Emergence: Top-Down and Bottom-Up 49
2.4 Implications for the Strategist 53
CHAPTERCASE 2 / Consider This... 55
CHAPTER 3 EXTERNAL ANALYSIS: INDUSTRY STRUCTURE, COMPETITIVE FORCES, AND STRATEGIC GROUPS 64
CHAPTERCASE 3 Tesla Motors and the U.S. Automotive Industry 65
3.1 The PESTEL Framework 66 Political Factors 67 Economic Factors 68 Sociocultural Factors 69 Technological Factors 70 Ecological Factors 70 Legal Factors 72
3.2 Industry Structure and Firm Strategy: The Five Forces Model 72
Competition in the Five Forces Model 73 The Threat of Entry 75 The Power of Suppliers 79 The Power of Buyers 80 The Threat of Substitutes 81 Rivalry among Existing Competitors 82 A Sixth Force: The Strategic Role of Complements 89
3.3 Changes over Time: Industry Dynamics 89 3.4 Performance Differences within the Same Industry: Strategic Groups 90
The Strategic Group Model 91 Mobility Barriers 93
3.5 Implications for the Strategist 93
CHAPTERCASE 3 / Consider This... 95
CHAPTER 4 INTERNAL ANALYSIS: RESOURCES, CAPABILITIES, AND CORE COMPETENCIES 104
CHAPTERCASE 4 Dr. Dre’s Core Competency: Coolness Factor 105
4.1 Core Competencies 108 4.2 The Resource-Based View 111
Two Critical Assumptions 112 The VRIO Framework 113 Isolating Mechanisms: How to Sustain a Competitive Advantage 118
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4.3 The Dynamic Capabilities Perspective 122 4.4 The Value Chain Analysis 127 4.5 Implications for the Strategist 129
Using SWOT Analysis to Combine External and Internal Analysis 130
CHAPTERCASE 4 / Consider This... 132
CHAPTER 5 COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE, FIRM PERFORMANCE, AND BUSINESS MODELS 140
CHAPTERCASE 5 The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Apple vs. Microsoft 141
5.1 Competitive Advantage and Firm Performance 142
Accounting Profitability 143 Shareholder Value Creation 149 Economic Value Creation 151 The Balanced Scorecard 156 The Triple Bottom Line 159
5.2 Business Models: Putting Strategy into Action 160
Popular Business Models 163 Dynamic Nature of Business Models 164
5.3 Implications for the Strategist 165
CHAPTERCASE 5 / Consider This... 166
PART TWO / FORMULATION 172 CHAPTER 6 BUSINESS STRATEGY: DIFFERENTIATION, COST LEADERSHIP, AND BLUE OCEANS 174
CHAPTERCASE 6 JetBlue: “Stuck in the Middle”? 175
6.1 Business-Level Strategy: How to Compete for Advantage 177
Strategic Position 178 Generic Business Strategies 178
6.2 Differentiation Strategy: Understanding Value Drivers 180
Product Features 182 Customer Service 182 Complements 182
6.3 Cost-Leadership Strategy: Understanding Cost Drivers 183
Cost of Input Factors 184 Economies of Scale 184 Learning Curve 187 Experience Curve 190
6.4 Business-Level Strategy and the Five Forces: Benefits and Risks 191
Differentiation Strategy: Benefits and Risks 192 Cost-Leadership Strategy: Benefits and Risks 192
6.5 Blue Ocean Strategy: Combining Cost Leadership and Differentiation 194
Value Innovation 194 Blue Ocean Strategy Gone Bad: “Stuck in the Middle” 197
6.6 Implications for the Strategist 200
CHAPTERCASE 6 / Consider This... 200
CHAPTER 7 BUSINESS STRATEGY: INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 208
CHAPTERCASE 7 Netflix: Disrupting the TV Industry 209
7.1 Competition Driven by Innovation 211 The Innovation Process 212
7.2 Strategic and Social Entrepreneurship 215 7.3 Innovation and the Industry Life Cycle 217
Introduction Stage 219 Growth Stage 220 Shakeout Stage 223 Maturity Stage 224 Decline Stage 224 Crossing the Chasm 225
7.4 Types of Innovation 231 Incremental vs. Radical Innovation 232 Architectural vs. Disruptive Innovation 234 Open Innovation 238
7.5 Implications for the Strategist 241
CHAPTERCASE 7 / Consider This... 242
CHAPTER 8 CORPORATE STRATEGY: VERTICAL INTEGRATION AND DIVERSIFICATION 252
CHAPTERCASE 8 How Amazon.com Became the Everything Store 253
8.1 What Is Corporate Strategy? 255 Why Firms Need to Grow 255 Three Dimensions of Corporate Strategy 257
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8.2 The Boundaries of the Firm 258 Firms vs. Markets: Make or Buy? 259 Alternatives on the Make-or-Buy Continuum 261
8.3 Vertical Integration along the Industry Value Chain 264
Types of Vertical Integration 266 Benefits and Risks of Vertical Integration 267 When Does Vertical Integration Make Sense? 269 Alternatives to Vertical Integration 270
8.4 Corporate Diversification: Expanding Beyond a Single Market 271
Types of Corporate Diversification 273 Leveraging Core Competencies for Corporate Diversification 275 Corporate Diversification and Firm Performance 279
8.5 Implications for the Strategist 282
CHAPTERCASE 8 / Consider This... 283
CHAPTER 9 CORPORATE STRATEGY: STRATEGIC ALLIANCES AND MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS 294
CHAPTERCASE 9 Disney: Building Billion-Dollar Franchises 295
9.1 How Firms Achieve Growth 296 The Build-Borrow-Buy Framework 297
9.2 Strategic Alliances 299 Why Do Firms Enter Strategic Alliances? 300 Governing Strategic Alliances 304 Alliance Management Capability 307
9.3 Mergers and Acquisitions 309 Why Do Firms Merge with Competitors? 310 Why Do Firms Acquire Other Firms? 311 M&A and Competitive Advantage 313
9.3 Implications for the Strategist 315
CHAPTERCASE 9 / Consider This... 316
CHAPTER 10 GLOBAL STRATEGY: COMPETING AROUND THE WORLD 326
CHAPTERCASE 10 The Wonder from Sweden: Is IKEA’s Success Sustainable? 327
10.1 What Is Globalization? 329 Stages of Globalization 331 State of Globalization 332
10.2 Going Global: Why? 333 Advantages of Going Global 333
Disadvantages of Going Global 336 10.3 Going Global: Where and How? 338
Where in the World to Compete? The CAGE Distance Framework 339 How Do MNEs Enter Foreign Markets? 342
10.4 Cost Reductions vs. Local Responsiveness: The Integration-Responsiveness Framework 343
International Strategy 344 Multidomestic Strategy 345 Global-Standardization Strategy 346 Transnational Strategy 347
10.5 National Competitive Advantage: World Leadership in Specific Industries 348
Porter’s Diamond Framework 350 10.6 Implications for the Strategist 352
CHAPTERCASE 10 / Consider This... 353
PART THREE / IMPLEMENTATION 362 CHAPTER 11 ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN: STRUCTURE, CULTURE, AND CONTROL 364
CHAPTERCASE 11 Zappos: From Happiness to Holacracy 365
11.1 Organizational Design and Competitive Advantage 367
Organizational Inertia: The Failure of Established Firms 368 Organizational Structure 371 Mechanistic vs. Organic Organizations 372
11.2 Strategy and Structure 374 Simple Structure 375 Functional Structure 375 Multidivisional Structure 377 Matrix Structure 381
11.3 Organizational Culture: Values, Norms, and Artifacts 384
Where Do Organizational Cultures Come From? 386 How Does Organizational Culture Change? 386 Organizational Culture and Competitive Advantage 387
11.4 Strategic Control-and-Reward Systems 389 Input Controls 390 Output Controls 390
11.5 Implications for the Strategist 391
CHAPTERCASE 1 / Consider This... 392