Strategic Management PU Spring 2024 question paper

Mention any two features of strategic vision.

Write any four components of economic environment.

State any two ways of creating barriers to entry by the existing firms in an industry.

What do you mean by value chain analysis?

Define operationalization strategy.

| What do you mean by retrenchment strategy

Enlist any two benefits of merger.

| Write down any two limitations of BCG matrix.

Define core competency.

Differentiate between operationalizing strategy and _institutionalizing strategy. Section “B” Descriptive Answer Questions Attempt any six questions. [6x10]

“A company’s vision, objectives, strategy and approaches to strategy execution are never final, Why is it so? Explain.

“Strategic management plays a significant role for gaining long-term sustainable competitive advantage for the company”. Justify. 13. Discuss the influence of economic and ecological environment on electric vehicles business in Nepal. 14. A team of Non-Resident Nepalese (NRN) is willing to invest its money in a new business in Pokhara, Nepal i.e. Five Star Hotel in the initial stage, the team has planned to introduce its service in Pokhara and gradually will extend the service to other major cities of Nepal. You have been asked by the team to analyze the competitive environment of such business. With reference to the five-force model of competition, analyze the competitive environment of this new business and give recommendation to the team whether or not they should start the business. 15. What do you mean by strategic control? how does strategic control is differ from operational control? Explain with illustration. 1013 FMieroEnotes 16. What do you mean by organizations structure? Why the simple structure is not suitable with larger construction business? Briefly describe with suitable example. 17. Explain the concept of BCG matrix. How is the concept of BCG matrix model helpful to manage the portfolio of a business company. Section “C” Case Analysis 18. Read the case situation given below and answer the questions that follow: [20] India's ambition to promote the use of electric vehicles will probably lead to another wave of investment, after the country became a top investment destination for Chinese Smartphone vendors. In the past three years, Chinese Smartphone brands have stepped up their investment in India, one of the fastest growing Smartphone markets in the world. Now it seems the scenario is likely to be repeated in the electric car sector. China's leading new energy vehicle maker BYD was quoted by Reuters as saying recently that it has "a lot more confidence" to enter the Indian market, after India's most influential government think-tank earlier this month recommended policies aiming to electrify all vehicles in India by 2032. In recent years, some Chinese electric car makers have used competitive prices and successful branding strategies to expand rapidly in the domestic market, which is now one the world's fastest growing markets for electric vehicles. According to industry experts, China's new energy vehicle ownership is likely to increase from 1.09 million in 2016 to 5 million in 2020. Chinese electric car makers are expected to grow in strength, technology and capital during this period, and will probably see an outbound investment boom from 2020-32 as China's domestic market starts to become saturated. Chinese electric cars have a comparative price advantage, which will be conducive for making inroads in the Indian market. Chinese Smartphone brands like Oppo and Vivo seem set to beat their Western rivals in India thanks to affordable prices, and the future competition between Chinese electric car makers and their western counterparts such as Tesla may follow similar road map in India. The current popularity of affordable Chinese Smart phones makes it possible for more Indian people to be connected to the Internet. If New Delhi wants to push the use of electric vehicles in a bid to improve country's energy structure and curb pollution, Chinese electric car makers should be allowed to play a bigger role. Without China's help, India's ambition to electrify all vehicles by 2032 will be hard to achieve. 2o0f3 It is inevitable that Chinese companies will bring competition and challenges for local Indian electric car makers. But hopefully New Delhi will take a considered, long-term view to give top priority to promoting electric vehicles in the country instead of just protecting the interests of its local electric car firms. It would be in the interests of Indian people for Chinese firms to set up plants in the country and employ local workers. But any efforts to raise trade protectionism barrier would be counter- productive. Questions:

• a) Write how government policy in India created business opportunity to Chinese electric car makers?
• b) Analyze the competitive environment of Indian car industry.
• c) What would be the possible business level strategy of the Chinese car makers in India?
• d) How the trade protectionism barriers would be counter-productive to Chinese car makers? 3 of