Walmart Case

The following post has two assignments namely;

1.Walmart Case

1. Assess how Walmart is managing ethics and social responsibility as one of the largest corporations in the world. 2. Evaluate various ethical issues Walmart has faced and how the company responded to stakeholders. 3. What are Walmart's contributions to improving the well-being of consumers and the economic sustainability of society?

2.Business Strategy

1. Why is it important for a firm to study and understand the external environment? Type your answer here 2. What are the differences between the general environment and the industry environment? Why are these differences important? Type your answer here 3. What is the external environmental analysis process (four parts)? What does the firm want to learn when using this process Type your answer here 4. What are the seven segments of the general environment? Explain the differences among them. Type your answer here 4. How do the five forces of competition in an industry affect its profit potential? Explain. Type your answer here 6. What is a strategic group? Of what value is knowledge of the firm’s strategic group in formulating that firm’s strategy? Type your answer here 7. What is the importance of collecting and interpreting data and information about competitors? What practices should a firm use to gather competitor intelligence and why? Type your answer here CHAPTER 3: ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS - Answer any six (6) of the following nine (9) questions. 1. Why is it important for a firm to study and understand its internal organization? Type your answer here 2. What is value? Why is it critical for the firm to create value? How does it do so? Type your answer here 3. What is the external environmental analysis process (four parts)? What does the firm want to learn when using this process? Type your answer here 4. What are capabilities? How do firms create capabilities? Type your answer here 5. What four criteria must capabilities satisfy for them to become core competencies? Why is it important for firms to use these criteria to evaluate their capabilities’ value creating potential? Type your answer here 6. What is value chain analysis? What does the firm gain by successfully using this tool? Type your answer here 7. What is outsourcing? Why do firms outsource? Will outsourcing’s importance grow in the future? If so, why? Type your answer here 8. How do firms identify internal strengths and weaknesses? Why is it vital that managers have a clear understanding of their firm’s strengths and weaknesses? Type your answer here 9. What are core rigidities? What does it mean to say that each core competence could become a core rigidity? Type your answer here