Superior Strategy Execution Capabilities Are the Only Source of Sustainable

question 49

Multiple Choice

Superior strategy execution capabilities are the only source of sustainable competitive advantage:

• A) when strategies are easy for rivals to copy.
• B) because such capabilities are socially complex and develop with experience over long periods of time and thus are hard to mimic.
• C) because there is no substitute for superior strategy execution.
• D) when the only way to achieve success is to ensure the firm out-executes its competitors.
• E) All of these.

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