PART I
The Business System and the Competitive Environment
- The firm as a system;
- The family business;
- The environment relevant to the firm;
- The competitive environment;
- The environment as perceived subjectively by the firm;
- Resources and Distinctive Capabilities in the Business System;
- The firm as a set of resources;
- From resources to distinctive capabilities;
- Resources, distinctive capabilities, and strategic orientation;
- Strategic Management;
- Strategy formulation;
- Competitive advantage;
- Competitive strategies;
- Collaborative strategies;
- Growth Strategies;
- Vertical integration strategy;
- Diversification strategy;
- Internationalization strategy;
- Strategic Planning;
- Meaning, evolution, and current role of business planning;
- Planning content: foundational conditions;
- Planning content: strategic orientation;
- Strategy Implementation: Organizational Design and Human Capital Management;
- Corporate organizational systems, organizational design, human capital, and competitive advantage;
- General aspects of organizational design;
- Network-based organizational structures;
- Organizational solutions for implementing corporate strategies;
- The role of corporate structures in implementing diversification strategies;
- Technological Innovation and Competitive Advantage: Analysis and Strategic Management of R&D Investments;
- R&D investments, technological innovation, and strategic challenges;
- Technology and profitability: innovation protection and investment incentives;
- Operational management: project-based innovation.
PART II
- Cost, Revenue, Contribution, and Profit Model;
- The structural isocost curve as a law of structural state change;
- Structural adjustments, transformations, and restructurings;
- Systemic Analysis of Operating Leverage;
- Methods of determination and significance;
- Development and Dimensional Growth;
- The development alternatives matrix;
- Risk-Return Profile;
- A model for analyzing the relationship between the business system and the financial system;
- Evolutionary Dynamics of the Firm Between Economics and Finance;
- Business development and financial compatibility;
- Opportunities and limits of debt financing;
- Operating profitability and net profitability;
- Relationships between industrial and net profitability in relation to debt and tax burden: financial leverage and governance risk.
