How companies develop distinctive competencies and how competencies

1. How companies develop distinctive competencies and how competencies lead to competitive advantage. How those distinctive competencies help a company to position itself in market?  

2. Why companies choose outsourcing and how that impact value chain activities. How value chain activities are used in outsourcing or offshoring? What outsourcing does with developing competitive advantage?  

3. Why companies diversify and how KSF's used in the process of decision-making for diversification? What kind of assets a company must have for diversification?  

4. What advantages a global market offer to a company? What are various strategies multinational choose for participating in the global market?  Which strategy better fit the goal of what company and for what purpose?  

5. What are the global drivers and how it relates to economies of scale. How economies of scale could be achieved?  

6. What are the entry modes in the Global Market and how that entry mode takes into consideration the political risk factors. Which entry mode is better to lessen the political risk. How companies choose their entry mode in the global market?