Learning Activity # 1

International managers must consider the benefits and risks of competing internationally when making international strategic decisions about whether to expand overseas or further develop their operations overseas. Now, superstitious beliefs and behaviors are widespread in virtually all countries. With the trend toward globalization, it pays for managers to be superstition-conscious and to develop an understanding of the superstitious practices in countries and companies where they operate..

Please, use your experience and knowledge and/or current events and discuss the pros and cons of integrating superstition into the strategic decision-making process in your company or organization.

Learning Activity # 2

It is broadly known that many mergers and acquisitions fail. Please, use your experience and knowledge and/or current events to answer the following question: Which of the following four alternatives you think is driving those merger and acquisition strategic decisions:

Strategic habits driven strategic decisions

Strategic analysis driven strategic decisions

Gut feeling driven strategic decisions

Superstition driven strategic decision

Please, provide an example to illustrate your argument.