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The module on Strategy, Organisations and Society is divided in 6 broad themes. Underlying these themes are Strategic core concepts such as value creation and value capturing. In order to understand how strategy impacts organisation’s performance, we explore the role of positioning, process and design, resources and capabilities, collaboration, and networks of organizations and non-market actors.

For this essay, you have to select one of the three topics above and elaborate on the strategic, organization, and society implications of the phenomenon. Your analysis must be based on a firm/organisation/industry of your choice. Be aware that your organization/industry/case must be sufficiently different from those we analysed during the course.

In order to complete any of these essays, you are expected to understand the forces driving the firm/organization/industry economic success and survival. This will demand to understand the firm/industry external environment (industry analysis: e.g., competition, suppliers, customers, stakeholders, political and economic environment) and a firm/organization’s sources of competitive advantage (firm analysis: e.g., resources, learning capabilities, collaborations, and partners, etc). You may use any framework you believe appropriate to organize your data (e.g., five forces model, PESTEL, value chain analysis, VRIN/VRIO, Responsiveness/Integration framework, stakeholder analysis, etc.)  Do not try to use all of them! Parsimony is a sign of understanding and promotes clarity in the response.

Those analyses will be the foundation you will use to illustrate your argument regarding the topic of your choice. Each essay has a better fit with one or two of the themes covered in the course.  Your ability to identify the information and the tools to address the essay you choose shows your understanding of the concepts, and how to apply them to the phenomenon.

Here is the topic: Choose one from the following three options.

1. Despite slow global growth in 2024, no economic risks are in the World Economic Forum's 2025 top 10 risk ranking. With inflation expected to fall to 3.5% by year-end, concerns about inflation and economic downturn have decreased. However, the risk of an economic downturn has risen due to geopolitical turmoil. Choose one industry (Pharmaceuticals, Agricultural Commodities, Logistics, or Energy) and critically analyse how firms in the industry can adapt to confront an economic downturn. Incorporate strategic management concepts, review current concerns about geopolitical instability and cybersecurity, and draw on lessons from past events.

2. The Scaling Solar initiative by the World Bank Group exemplifies a successful public-private partnership (PPP), enabling affordable solar power in countries like Zambia and Senegal, contributing to SDG 7. PPPs have shown their potential to efficiently, responsively, and responsibly build infrastructure. Choose an industry or region and critically analyse how a PPP could impact infrastructure or business opportunities in less favoured regions. Incorporate strategic management concepts, review current challenges, and draw on lessons from past events.

3. Critically evaluate a company's environmental strategy utilizing the "information warfare" framework. In the process and building on other strategic models, address how the firm's resources, environment, non-market actors, NGOs, customers, and other stakeholders shape the firm's actions and environmental strategy. Use a specific example of a company (other than ExxonMobil) to illustrate your analysis.