What Strategic issues particular to the enterprise(s) and context described
What will be an ideal response?
? Conran’s leadership style (could contrasted with Leahy’s leadership at Tesco – see chapter 4)
? Continuing preference for store location in the high street
? Habitat’s external image
? International expansion decisions
? The competitive threat from IKEA from 1990
? Product design and sourcing
? Whether business enterprises like Habitat have an inescapable quasi-anthropomorphic life cycle of
birth, growth, decline and demise (which perhaps why IKANO could not revive its fortunes?).
? Did Habitat’s structure become ‘top heavy’ and inefficient?
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A. nonexistent over matters that affect interstate commerce. B. limited only by its own state constitution. C. exclusive in the domain of intrastate commerce. D. exclusive in the domain of interstate commerce.
During a sales presentation, the salesperson must be prepared to correct a negative impression the prospect may have about a product. Thus, a salesperson should most likely do all of the following EXCEPT:
A. emphasize the importance a prospect attaches to a product's high price. B. alter the importance of the attributes. C. change the person's search for an ideal product into a realistic product. D. alter the prospect's beliefs about the product. E. highlight unnoticed product attributes.
Senator Brown and other politicians want to restrict the flow of technologically advanced products and data from the United States to other countries. To restrict or encourage exports, Congress can
a. do nothing. b. assess antidumping duties. c. impose export taxes. d. set export quotas.
A tax on the manufacture or sale of a domestic product is known as:
a. a tariff b. a production tax c. an excise tax d. an income tax e. double taxation