What Major themes that can be addressed in lectures or class discussions
What will be an ideal response?
? Industry structural characteristics including costs, entry and exit barriers, technological change,
product and service complementarity value-adding supply chains etc., using the worksheet of 3.11
? The considerable uncertainty arising from the combination of environmental complexity, dynamic
change and competitive hostility
? Bargaining power relative to new entrants in the downstream supply chain, mercurial music
recording artists; managing these crucial resources effectively
? Identification of major threats and opportunities and how to understand and respond constructively
to them.
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Accounts payable represent:
a. Amounts which are due to stockholders. b. Amounts which have been borrowed to finance operations. c. Amounts which are owed to the company by its customers resulting from credit sales. d. Amounts which are owed by the company to its suppliers for past purchases.
In a condominium:
a. all residents own shares in the corporation that owns the building. b. each resident purchases a living unit in the building. c. the tenant owns a reversionary interest in the property. d. the tenant creates a future interest in the property known as a possibility of reverter.
The managers at Camphor Plastics decided that their firm needed to diversify because of overall falling sales and lower performance in one sector. How does diversifying compensate for the lackluster performance in this sector?
A. by having higher performance in another sector B. by increasing the firm's risk in another sector C. by motivating managers D. by sharing their market power
Browser-based applications ________.
A. are more vulnerable to security threats than are traditional applications B. do not need to be encrypted C. run within a corporate network that is protected from the Internet D. need to be preinstalled on the users' computers E. eliminate the need to check for data consistency