Southwest Airlines Business-Level and Corporate-Level Strategies

Southwest Airlines Business-Level and Corporate-Level Strategies

This paper will also be regarding Southwest Airlines.  You MUST use the template that is attached to do this assignment.  Make sure you download it and write your paper within it and not use a new Word document.  The attached template also includes additional detailed instructions.  use at least 6 credible references.  Please make sure that for citations as well as the sources list you follow the other attached document with instructions on how to cite (this is the other attachment not the template).  This should NOT be in APA format.  One of the sources for this assignment must be the course textbook which can be found on:

https://books.google.com/books?id=wUPAAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Hitt,+Ireland,+%26+Hoskisson.+2020.+Strategic+management:+Concepts+and+cases:+Competitiveness+and+globalization+(13th+ed.).+Mason,+OH:+South-Western+Cengage+Learning&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLsuXI9uboAhUNlXIEHdfoDlYQ6AEwAXoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

use only the chapter 4, 5, and 6 from the course textbook.

This paper will be focused on the organization Southwest Airlines.  Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database ( https://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml )  and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Requirements
Write a 6 paper in which you do the following:

-Analyze the business-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the business-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
-Analyze the corporate-level strategies for the corporation you chose to determine the corporate-level strategy you think is most important to the long-term success of the firm and whether or not you judge this to be a good choice. Justify your opinion.
-Analyze the competitive environment to determine the corporation’s most significant competitor. Compare their strategies at each level and evaluate which company you think is most likely to be successful in the long term. Justify your choice.
-Determine whether your choice from Question 3 would differ in slow-cycle and fast-cycle markets.

You must use the attached template to do this and follow all of the directions on it