Identify and evaluate the strategy or strategies followed by Wal-Mart by briefly considering the organization’s external environment.

Strategic Management

Identify and evaluate the strategy or strategies followed by Wal-Mart by briefly considering the organization’s external environment.
Drawing on the Resource based view of the firm examine how the case organization’s portfolio of resources contributes to its competitiveness.

Critically examine how Sam Walton’s ‘’Rules for Building a Business’’ develops our understanding of why successful firms fail.
Empirical evidence suggests that many international strategic alliances fail because firms fail to protect themselves from the opportunistic behaviour of their partners. Critically examine this problem and its implication for firms considering entering an international alliance.