Below are a number of multiple choice questions relevant to this chapter. There are two to three variations on the same questions. Each question has four options; the correct answer is written in the final column. Some questions are very simple, while others are much more difficult; this should be taken into account when setting quizzes or exams.
For each of the following questions, read each question carefully and then choose the answer you believe is most correct:
Question and options | # | Ans. |
The study of the organizational work done by people when engaged in strategizing is known as the ______ approach. a. narrative b. RBV c. strategy as practice d. process | 1 | |
Which of the following are standard strategy practices? a. PESTEL b. SWOT c. BCG matrix d. all of these | 2 | |
What does O stand for in SWOT? a. organization b. opportunities c. optimization d. opposition | 3 | |
What does T stand for in SWOT? a. treats b. tensions c. threats d. terrorism | 4 | |
According to your textbook, which of the following is a way of viewing strategy as practice? a. as a perspective b. as potential c. as persuasive d. all of these | 5 | |
According to your textbook, which of the following is a way of viewing strategy as practice? a. as a picture b. as property c. as a phenomenon d. as a pest | 6 | |
According to your textbook, which of the following is a way of viewing strategy as practice? a. as philosophy b. as poetry c. as purple d. as philanthropic | 7 | |
What does it mean to say that strategy practice is ‘performative’? a. It produces performance art from real-life stories. b. It produces realities from theoretical knowledge. c. It produces plays from analysis. d. all of these | 8 | |
Strategy as practice seeks to study strategy ______ and ______. a. theoretically and practically b. anthropologically and sociologically c. empirically and a priori d. universally and specifically | 9 | |
In strategy as practice perspectives, what does rhetoric do? a. describes b. negates c. conjectures d. legitimates | 10 | |
Strategy as practice is premised on the notion that strategy analysis must take ______ seriously. a. analytic models b. strategic planning c. emergent strategy d. social practices | 11 | |
Flyvbjerg (1998, 2002) demonstrated how different agencies and authorities in the Danish city of Aalborg sought to ______ their particular versions of rationality as the strategy to be followed. a. rationalize b. romanticize c. repair d. rusticate | 12 | |
According to Samra-Fredericks, which of the following is a crucial aspect of strategic communication? a. information b. intelligibility c. intentionality d. instinct | 13 | |
According to Samra-Fredericks, which of the following is NOT a factor defining interpersonal competence as a strategist? a. analytic skill b. speaking forms of knowledge c. questioning and querying d. deploying metaphors | 14 | |
Strategy talk seeks to create ______, such as this is the competitive threat; these are the strategic opportunities; these are the desired innovations. a. slogans b. signposts c. subjective stressors d. objective facts | 15 | |
Nancy Duarte shows how stories that succeed are ones that use rhythm and repetition to contrast ______. a. rhetoric with reality b. the status quo with the future c. the mundane with the extraordinary d. belief with rationality | 16 | |
What is the narrative structure described by Campbell (1988) which is often found in biographical accounts of CEOs? a. ballad b. heroic c. poetic d. psychoanalytic | 17 | |
Kaplan analysed which mundane aspect of strategy work? a. models b. meetings c. PowerPoints d. audiences | 18 | |
What does Kaplan term the situation where a strategy is designed as a PowerPoint presentation? a. rational strategy b. cartographic strategy c. simple strategy d. stupid strategy | 19 | |
A strategy tool that allows communication across the boundaries of organizations, between different divisions, disciplines and departments is termed a ______. a. transfer object b. boundary object c. communication device d. none of these | 20 | |
Strategy as practice research has shown that strategy tends to be marked by unreflective acceptance of ______. a. unconscious assumptions and beliefs b. explicit beliefs c. hard data d. theoretical models | 21 | |
According to Spee and Jarzabkowski, strategy tools work in practice both ______. a. ideationally and pragmatically b. instrumentally and symbolically c. instrumentally and ideationally d. pragmatically and theoretically | 22 | |
Highly legitimated sensemaking forms an institutional ______. a. value b. structure c. prison d. logic | 23 | |
Why might for-profit organizations be easier to manage than not-for-profit organizations? a. They are more homogenous b. They are less socially responsible c. They have one dominating logic d. all of these | 24 | |
Consultants can introduce new ______ into practice. a. conversations b. tools c. rituals d. all of these | 25 | |
Consultants offer which of the following functions for strategists? a. organizational therapy b. organizational retooling c. organizational surgery d. all of these | 26 | |
Who is a prominent proponent of scenario planning? a. Oliver Freeman b. Carl Perkins c. Gene Vincent d. Vince Taylor | 27 | |
According to Mantere, strategic champions ______. a. influence strategic issues beyond their immediate operational responsibilities b. are usually top managers c. tend to come from consultancy firms d. all of these | 28 | |
Adaptive strategies lead to some form of ______. a. closure b. improvisation c. sensemaking d. sensegiving | 29 | |
Recursive strategies ______ the status quo. a. threaten b. change c. rattle d. none of these | 30 | |
According to Mantere, recursive approaches to strategy tend to emphasize ______. a. rational planning b. stories c. metaphors d. all of these | 31 | |
Carroll, Levy and Richmond identified seven areas of self-insight into leadership practice: ______, process, consciousness, awareness, ______, everydayness and identity. a. habits/control b. language/human resources c. errors/problems d. values/emotions | 32 | |
Transformational leaders are generally thought to need to be ______. a. pedants b. charismatic c. transactional d. all of these | 33 | |
Celebrity CEOs work on the ______ dimension of power in Lukes’ theory of power. a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd d. 4th | 34 | |
Celebrity is a key ______ for a firm. a. handicap b. problem c. tangible benefit d. intangible asset | 35 | |
When the celebrity CEO dies, retires or is discredited, the problem of ______ arises. a. finding an equally charismatic successor b. persuading investors not to leave c. routinizing charisma d. winding up the organization | 36 | |
According to Khurana, the public profile of the CEO as celebrity encourages: a. investment decisions b. employee motivation c. stock price movements d. all of these | 38 | |