reasons for an organization to choose diversification as a strategic direction. When defining strategic directions‚ an organisation needs to analyze the context in which future operations will take place. The decision of entering a new market or to develop new products and services in an existing market needs to be though through focusing on increasing market share and increasing power over suppliers and buyers. Diversification‚ sometimes described as Horizontal intergration‚ involves different
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1. Economic theory is a valuable tool for business decision making because it Answer identifies for managers the essential information for making a decision. assumes away the problem. creates a realistic‚ complex model of the business firm. provides an easy solution to complex business problems. 0.2 points Question 2 1. Economic profit is Answer the difference between total revenue and the opportunity cost of all of the resources used in production. the
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Chapter 12 Managerial Decisions for Firms with Market Power Market power is the ability of all price setting firms to raise price without losing all sales‚ which causes the price setting firm’s demand to be downward-sloping. When firms with market power raise price‚ even though sales do not fall to zero‚ sales do decrease because of the law of demand. The effect of the change in price on the firm’s sales depends to a large extent on the amount of its market power‚ which can differ greatly among
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195 9708_w12_qp_42 Q4 Some workers producing non-essential luxury goods or services are paid very highly. The wage rate is not the economic value of a good or service‚ but more to social factors or fashion. The economic theory of wages is‚ therefore‚ of little use in explaining wage differentials. Assess this argument. Intro: Labor market supply and demand‚ wage determination‚ wage differentials general‚ ECONOMIC THEORY OF WAGES P1: production of luxury goods vs. other normal/inferior/Giffen/Veblen
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perfect competitive firms only earn normal profit. This is due to the easy entry and exit of firms into the market. Easy entry is mean that a new firm can easily enter the market if it established supernormal profit in the short run‚ new firms enter the industry and this increase the supply of the product. As result‚ the price falls and reduces the profit. New firms will continue to venture into this business until the profit reach zero. Easy exit is mean that some of the existing firms will leave
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market1. Nucor Corporation‚ which is a steel minimill well-known for its leadership‚ efficient operation and well-structured compensation‚ is showing the interest in the flat sheet segment. At the same time‚ there are many new thin-slab casting technologies to help minimills enter the new market quickly and cost-efficiently. One of them is from German firm‚ SMS Schloemann-Siemag‚ who has consistently introduced its unique technology‚ Compact Strip Production (CSP)‚ to Nucor. As the chairman and chief executive
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Nescafe‚ one of the top ten most valuable brands in the world‚ has over 50% instant coffee market share of the world‚ followed by General Food‚ Maxwell House and Brooke Bond. It’s so successful that some people in some of the Asian country such as China think that instant coffee is the whole world of coffee in 1990s. Such impressive influences come from Nescafe’s insight on the market situation and its own capability‚ fast response and feasible strategies. On this analysis‚ we will try to define
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output of the firm. If the firm is to increase or decrease its output‚ the change only takes place in the quantity of variable resources such as labor‚ raw material‚ etc. Further‚ in the short run‚ the demand curve facing the firm is horizontal. No new firms enter or leave the industry. The number of firms in the industry‚ therefore‚ remain the same. Under perfect competition‚ the firm takes the price of the product as determined in the market. The firm sells all its output at the prevailing market
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for the year significantly but also reduced the excess inventory held by B&L‚ and increased their AR significantly‚ thus portraying a positive outlook on the Balance Sheet. 2. Does the new distribution and sales strategy make sense from an operational standpoint? Why or why not? The main advantages of the new distribution and sales strategy are as follows: - Marketing resources would be immediately freed up to focus on the disposable market - B&L need to hold less inventory for the conventional
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|Business Economics and the Distribution of Income | By the end of these course notes students are expected to have covered the following from the specification: • The range of market structures • How costs and revenues vary in different market structures • Changes in costs and revenues in different market structures The range of market structures |Type
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