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Strategic Management Theory & Processes in the Soft Drink sector - The Coca-Cola Company

Policy is bolstered by what is recognized as strategy in corporate management jargon. Strategy is the broad definition of an undertaking's aims and the identification of distinct routes of execution to fulfill the undertaking's envisaged objective. Strategy configuration, similar to policymaking, may be regarded as a decision-making mechanism that is broadly associated with the conception of an enterprise's ambitions, the deployment of its assets, and the environmental considerations. Strategic management, on the other hand, comprises the mechanism of establishing an organization's purposes, formulating policies, initiatives, frameworks, and schemes to fulfill such objectives, and allocating resources to execute the policies, initiatives, frameworks, and plans. To contextualize, strategic management comprises the management of the interrelated components of the strategy framework, encompassing strategy formulation, strategy execution, and strategy evaluation. Premised on such arguments, I sought to elaborate and disclose a research paper in the form of a report, the core feature of which comprised reviewing and critically analyzing strategic management components, theories, and deployments in the context of the soft drink industry and relative macroeconomic complexities, with The Coca-Cola Company serving as the organization under scrutiny in terms of strategic management endeavors. The report embarks on a synopsis of the beverage behemoth, its mission and vision statements, and its standing in the marketplace. A thorough literature review pertaining to Coca-Cola's OD configuration enabled the researcher to identify the constituents of the company's decentralized model, its execution prowess in adjusting to market variations, and how it all enables the firm to stimulate protracted sustainability. The external context was then comprehensively evaluated, with the goal of identifying opportunities, unfavorable scenarios, and formulating practices that may convert existing constraints into diverse elements of profitable advantages, all while employing two among the most comprehensive instruments available in strategic formulation. An exploration of Coca-Cola's resolve in coping with relevant macroeconomic components was also undertaken. The research then underlines the significance of appraising the organization's strategic orientation, as well as the relevance, formulation, execution, and evaluation of strategic management approaches essential in attaining desired objectives and effectiveness over time. Ultimately, a range of leadership models were investigated in order to carry out the strategic management process, whereas establishing relevant effects on organizational performance, retention of corporate values, and fulfillment of the company's CSR constituents.

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The purpose of this research was to analysis the efficiency of global strategies. This paper identified six key strategies necessary for firms to be successful when expanding globally. These strategies include differentiation, marketing, distribution, collaborative strategies, labor and management strategies, and diversification. Within this analysis, we chose to focus on the Coca-Cola Company because they have proven successful in their international operations and are one of the most recognized brands in the world. We performed an in-depth review of how effectively or ineffectively Coca-Cola has used each of the six strategies. The paper focused on Coca-Cola's operations in the United States, China, Belarus, Peru, and Morocco. The author used electronic journals from the various countries to determine how effective Coca-Cola was in these countries. The paper revealed that Coca-Cola was very successful in implementing strategies regardless of the country. However, the author learned that Coca-Cola did not effectively utilize all of the strategies in each country.

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The Coca-Cola Company is a total beverage company, offering over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Coca-Cola is the world’s largest provider of carbonated soft drinks, with an over 50% market share worldwide. Through the world’s largest beverage distribution system, consumers enjoy the Coca-Cola company’s beverage at a rate of 1.7 billion servings a day - about 19,400 beverages every second. This research investigates Coca-Cola’s preeminent position in the soft drink sector, and why it enjoys it. We explore the external and internal factors which share the company and its direction, and how Coca-Cola has responded to its influences. Additionally, an overview of the company’s strategic efforts shall be undertaken, and some cautionary notes for the future will be sounded.

Michael Hitt defines strategic management process in his book titled Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases as “the full set of commitments, decisions, and actions required for a firm to achieve strategic competitiveness and earn above-average returns.” The process begins with strategic inputs, which is a result of examining the internal and external environments of the business firm. This is followed by the formulation and implementation of strategic actions and concluded by strategic outcomes. The desired outcome is competitive advantage, measured by above-average returns. This strategic management paper aims to apply the strategic management process to Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines, Inc. PCPPI is the bottler and distributor of PepsiCo beverages and snacks in the Philippines, with headquarters in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila. It is a public company, trading on the Philippine Stock Exchange with the abbreviation PIP. The company is involved in the manufacturing and sale of carbonated and non-carbonated drinks. In addition, it is also involved in the manufacturing and sale of food and food products. The strategic management process in this paper aims to target PCPPI’s operations, marketing, financial, information technology, and human resource strategies. It also aims to provide frameworks in the management of strategies in these areas.

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research, 2019

A sustentação do tema é uma das principais organizações, uma vez que a saúde é sustentável e alinhada com os indicadores sociais e ambientais para melhorar a imagem corporativa e a melhor vantagem competitiva. Por meio de componentes de Planejamento Estratégico de Negócios, contamos com as ferramentas de gerenciamento do Balanced Scorecard, é possível realizar as práticas do ambiente de produção com a implementação de metas e objetivos estratégicos, porém essa integração ainda não é traduzida como real meio ambiente e contraído pela atividade central da empresa dentro da perspectiva da sustentabilidade.Portanto, este estudo é baseado em uma estratégia de gestão baseada no Balanced Scorecard, que também considera os indicadores de desempenho de sustentabilidade, dentro da economia, dimensões sociais e ambientais, a fim de permitir que os gestores se desenvolvam e sigam a organização Planejamento Estratégico de Negócios e Gestão estática está funcionando no nível operacional de susten...

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As editors of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Management 3e, Vol. 12 Strategic Management, we aim to provide business practitioners, academics, and students of the field with a comprehensive reference relating to strategy concepts, methods, and techniques to reflect the dynamism of industry practice and academic knowledge. The juxtaposition of concepts, methods and techniques reflects the need for clarity in strategic thought as well as practicality in strategy implementation. As an encyclopedia, this volume provides a broad coverage of the field and an accessible framework for investigating its subject matter. The Strategic Management volume has been compiled through a collaborative network of over 50 professors and industry leaders from universities, business schools, and business organizations from all parts of the globe. The result is a contemporary, dynamic, and global view of strategy, which represents cutting edge thinking in the world of corporate and societal management. The text is designed to be accessible to readers from different backgrounds who contribute to the design, implementation, and use of strategy at various levels in their organizations. The ease of access to the wealth of information embodied in the encyclopedia is made possible through the modular nature of the publication whereby each strategy concept can be searched online and retrieved separately. We developed a comprehensive list of contemporary strategy topics for the third edition by looking at research published over the past decade in top academic journals, reputable industry publications, and the dominant logic of the frameworks of strategy in academic textbooks.We then organized these topics into distinct strategy themes to enable individual topics to be related to broader streams of strategic thought. The result was a significantly updated list of topics from previous editions, made up of 210 topics, 36 of which are new additions with most of the remainder being heavily revised. The new entries come mainly from the rapidly evolving nature of strategy as reflected in the content of popular textbooks on strategy and new approaches to strategic leadership advocated in business schools. There are three distinct fields that are attracting more attention in the field of strategy, which may not constitute a new core but will certainly enrich the way we think about strategy. The new themes revolve around three areas: complex behavior in organizations and industries, the psychological foundations of strategy, and strategic innovation as an area that focuses on the renewal of managerial cognition and on the responses of organizations and industries to contentious and difficult environments. Another area that has gained more citations and more interest from academics and executives in the past few years is cooperation and collaboration, which is being linked to our understanding of complex adaptive behavior. The evolution of the key terms and concepts in the encyclopedia reflects a move toward organizational strategies and resource-based views that have emerged in response to competition, regulation, social trends, and technological innovation. Our approach to building this compendium of strategic management is both conceptual and practical. Strategic management is a performance-driven discipline, with an ingrained competitive stance, that sets out to condition long-term futures. With this mindset in place, one of the major shifts in strategic thinking has been to recognize the centrality of resources and capabilities as the foundation of long-term superior results and the need to create and execute strategic plans that utilize these resources. Therefore, the resource-based view has a much more significant influence in the field of strategy. The practicalities of how the resource-based view can be captured into workable core competences and later on into dynamic capabilities that outpace the competition, will be on center stage in the foreseeable future. The nature of dynamic capabilities links back to complex adaptive behavior, a field that is yet to evolve into a robust practical toolbox for strategic decision makers. The third edition is being published in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, a crisis that has shattered many comfortable illusions about the stability of the global economy and the health and resilience of many important parts of it. The year 2014 also marks a point at which the long period of globalization and intensive technological change can be observed in new structures and strategies around the world, both political and corporate. Thus the context of the field of strategy has changed immensely and we ought to ask if it has changed the nature of strategic thinking itself. The most obvious observation to make is that the nature and importance of competition has been clearly intensified. Falling real incomes have created more demand for low price offerings and differentiated offerings have to show their value proposition more clearly. Everything we know about competition is in many senses reinforced with an override that observes that time horizons have become more compressed, strategies need to pay off earlier, and value propositions will have to be readjusted more frequently. This raises a more complex point. The tension between short-term and long-term thinking has been greatly exacerbated. The 2008 crisis pointed toward rapid financial readjustments, the primacy of cost-driven survival strategies and simultaneously the need for longer term repositioning so as to be able to create the resources and flexibility for strategies to be more reactive, more adaptive and yet more durable. Are we to see more trade-offs toward the short term or do we take from 2008 that more importance should be given to long-term durability? Part of the long-term thinking of corporations is investment and technological change. The invasion of consumer buying habits by innovations such as social networks is provoking fundamental changes in retailing and in consumer goods marketing with consequent implications for investment back down the supply chain. The pace of technical change and consumer buying habits shows no sign of diminishing. As further fuel to these changes, the significance of emerging markets has been very evident in the aftermath of 2008 with considerable visibility of China’s development into a world economic superpower (or is it going to run into bottleneck constraints and revert to more normal growth). Alongside this strand of thinking is a rethinking of globalization as a strategy. The emphasis is now on regional power coupled with increasing free trade. This is a more intricate paradigm than global standardization requiring correspondingly more complex patterns of internationalization. So change is even more positively on the agenda and the capacity to interpret and respond to contextual shifts and rapidly evolving new competitors will become a requisite core competence. Fundamentally, strategic advantage in any and all contexts is driven and fueled by the resources and capabilities of firms. The resource-based view is gaining more attention and will gain more traction in reality as firms begin to work out how to define, measure, and create core competences. The resource based view is a theory waiting for major practical advancement. Without core competences, firms are destined to be price competitors or at best rapid imitators. Long-term superior performance will accrue to those who know what are their strategic assets. The principle focus of strategy regarding the creation of wealth will continue to dominate and will remain critical to the competitive survival of firms. However, the definition of wealth in the economic literature is starting to shift toward a more holistic view that integrates financial and societal well being – a reflection probably of broader public opinion. The effect on the field of strategy is an increase in importance of areas such as corporate social responsibility as well as providing ammunition for the need for organizations to take an even longer view in spite of current short-term financial pressures. The implementation of strategy is an area that requires more attention in terms of providing a working framework of how to execute the wide variety of strategic models available in the literature. Implementation remains a minefield of mobilising financial, human, organizational and social capital, in the form of industry networks. Strategic Management Vol. 12 is a rich collection of the latest thinking on strategic management. We are indebted to our colleagues in international business schools and corporations across the globe, who have contributed with their ideas, opinions, best practices, and latest research finding. It has been a privilege to be part of this great network of strategic minds that have created this comprehensive collection of strategic management concepts.

La evolución de la investigación en dirección estratégica: Tendencias recientes y nuevos caminos Resumen La dirección estratégica es una disciplina relativamente joven que ha ido adquiriendo su madurez durante los últimos 50 años. A lo largo de este período ha ido consolidando su personalidad a la vez que aumentaba la variedad de tópicos analizados y de metodologías utilizadas en sus investigaciones. Con el fin de explicar las razones del éxito empresarial-ventaja competitiva-, se han ido desarrollando diferentes teorías y enfoques que han ido cubriendo distintos aspectos de la investigación. Los autores plantean la existencia de dos péndulos que se mueven constantemente y que reflejan la tensión que históricamente ha existido entre la atención a los factores internos o el predominio del entorno, por un lado, y la tensión entre el nivel macro de análisis, la empresa y el entorno, o el nivel micro, los individuos y sus relaciones. La frontera de la investigación en dirección estratégica quedaría así definida por el movimiento simultáneo de ambos péndulos. Strategic management is a relatively youthful discipline that has steadily matured over the past fifty years. The field has become consolidated over this period, while simultaneously expanding the range of topics analyzed and research methodologies used. Different theories and approaches, addressing different research topics, have been developed to explain the reasons underlying firms’ competitive advantage and success. In this paper, we posit the existence of two pendulums in constant motion that, on the one hand, reflect the tension that has historically existed between the focus on internal firm factors and external environmental attributes respectively and, on the other hand, the tension between a more macro level of analysis, i.e., the firm and its environment, and a more micro level one, i.e., individuals and their relations within the firm. The frontier of research in strategic management is shaped by the simultaneous movement of both pendulums.

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