Chapter 5: Internal Scanning: Organizational Analysis 5.1 A Resource-Based Approach to Organizational Analysis Analysts must also look within the corporation itself to identify internal strategic factors—critical strengths and weaknesses that are likely to determine whether a firm will be able to take advantages of opportunities while avoiding threats Core and Distinctive Competencies Types of resources Tangible Assets- plant‚ equipment‚ finances‚ and location Human Assets- number of
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CHAPTER 5: MASTER TEST BANK UNDERSTANDING CONSUMER BEHAVIOR Test Item Table by Major Section of the Chapter and Bloom’s Level of Learning Bloom’s Level of Learning (LL) Level 1 Knowledge (Knows Basic Terms & Facts) Major Section of the Chapter Level 2 Comprehension (Understands Concepts & Principles) Level 3 Application (Applies Principles) Chapter Opener: Enlightened Carmakers (pp. 108-109) 1‚ 2 3‚ 4‚ 5 6 Consumer Purchase Decision Process and Experience
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Chapter 5 REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. How did the described volcanoes in Iceland and the Philippines change the environment to lesser or greater extents? 2. Name and describe the attributes of the two categories into which all organisms can be divided based on how they obtain nutrition. All organisms can be divided into autothrops‚ which produce their own food‚ and heterothrops‚ which need to get their food from somewhere else. 3. Name and describe the roles of the three main trophic categories that make
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Chapter 5 Social • Major population boom! o by 1775 there were 2.5 million people in 13 colonies o youthful and growing quickly • they were slowly moving westward past the Alleghenies • most populous colonies o Virginia o Massachusetts o Pennsylvania o North Carolina o Maryland • Cities o Philadelphia o New York o Boston o Charleston • Many races settled in America o Germans – fled religious persecution‚ for economy‚ and fleeing war mainly in Pennsylvania – Lutheran‚ very loyal
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Chapter 5 |Activity-Based Cost Systems |[pic] | QUESTIONS 5-1 Traditional volume-based cost allocation systems that use only drivers that vary directly with the volume of products produced—such as direct labor dollars‚ direct labor hours‚ or machine hours—are likely to systematically distort product costs because they break the link between the cause for the costs and the basis for assignment
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Justin Rayome Dr. Ditloff International Relations 6 March 2014 Levitt‚ Steven D‚ and Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. New York: Harper Collins‚ 2005. Print. The authors of Freakonomics‚ Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner‚ were very clear in the fact that they did not want their book to simply revolve around one single theme‚ thus making it difficult to discern a distinct thesis statement or theory. Some may perceive this type of approach
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5-1 Chapter 5 MASS AND ENERGY ANALYSIS OF CONTROL VOLUMES Conservation of Mass 5-1C Mass‚ energy‚ momentum‚ and electric charge are conserved‚ and volume and entropy are not conserved during a process. 5-2C Mass flow rate is the amount of mass flowing through a cross-section per unit time whereas the volume flow rate is the amount of volume flowing through a cross-section per unit time. 5-3C The amount of mass or energy entering a control volume does not have to be equal to the amount
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The theme of chapter five of Freakonomics is involving parenting and whether parents really do affect their children as much as it is believed; whether the parents really matter. Levitt and Dubner discuss the roles of parents in the lives of their children‚ including the choices they make to protect them. They provide situations to show how the conventional wisdom of parenting is constantly changing‚ certain beliefs going in and out of style and ideas contradicting one another arising. Parents do
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Chapter Five Summary There are comparatively few rules to violate‚ and people are socialized into long standing traditions in a communal society. Because associated societies are complex‚ they require many laws and rules. Also‚ they are impersonal‚ and tradition is not adequate to prevent deviance. However‚ many associational societies are diverse‚ and the mix of ethnicities‚ language‚ and regional differences requires coordination‚ which in turn requires laws and rules. The focus in an associational
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CHAPTER 5 ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING AND ACTIVITY-BASED MANAGEMENT 5-16 (20 min.) Cost hierarchy. 1. a. Indirect manufacturing labor costs of $1‚450‚000 support direct manufacturing labor and are output unit-level costs. Direct manufacturing labor generally increases with output units‚ and so will the indirect costs to support it. b. Batch-level costs are costs of activities that are related to a group of units of a product rather than each individual unit of a product. Purchase order-related
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