Question Description
Available from the textbook (6th edition): Essentials of Strategic Management: The Quest forCompetitive Advantage 6th edition by Gamble, Peteraf, and Thompson (case 7- page 307)
Case Questions:1. What are GoPro’s resources?➢ Use table 4.1 as a guide.➢ Classify the resources into tangible and intangible.➢ Name 2-3 tangible and 2-3 intangible resources and briefly explain.➢ Use bullet points.➢ Maximum length for your answer to this question: 100 words.
2. What are GoPro’s competitive capabilities?➢ Name 2-3 capabilities and briefly explain.➢ Be concise and to the point.➢ Use bullet points.➢ Maximum length for your answer to this question: 100 words.
3. Identify a potential core competency for GoPro and determine whether it leads to sustainablecompetitive advantage.➢ Identify a bundle of resources and capabilities that has potential to be a corecompetency.➢ Run the VRIN tests and conclude whether it is a core competency or not.➢ Be concise and to the point.➢ Use bullet points.➢ Maximum length for your answer to this question: 150 words.
4. Which one of the five generic competitive strategies discussed in Chapter 5 most closelyapproximates the competitive approach that GoPro is employing?➢ Maximum length for your answer to this question: 50 words