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1 - MGT 499 || Chapter 2 Summary
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Undergraduate 4
01/22/2019

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What is a group of companies offering products or services that are close substitutes for each other?
Definition
Industry
Term
What are products or services that satisfy the same basic customer needs?
Definition
Close Substitutes
Term
What are the six competitive forces?
Definition
Potential Competitors

Rivalry among established firms

Bargaining Power of Suppliers

Bargaining Power of Buyers

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Compliments
Term
The stronger each competitive force, the more what?
Definition
Competitive the industry and the lower the rate of return that can be earned.
Term
What is a function of the height of barriers to entry?
Definition
Potential Competitors
Term
The higher the barrier entry rate, the lower the?
Definition
Risk of entry and the greater the potential profits in the industry.
Term
What is a function of industry's competitive structure, demand conditions, cost conditions and barriers to exit?
Definition
Rivalry among established firms
Term
What moderate the competition among established companies and create opportunities for expansion?
Definition
Strong Demand Conditions
Term
When does intensive competition that can develop, particularly in consolidated industries with high exit barriers?
Definition
When Demand Is Weak
Term
When are buyers most powerful?
Definition
When a company depends on them for business, but they are not dependent on the company.
Term
When are suppliers most powerful?
Definition
When a company depends on them for business but they are not dependent on the company.
Term
What are products of companies serving customer needs similar to the needs served by the industry being analyzed?
Definition
Substitute Products
Term
How can a company avoid losing customers to similar substitutes?
Definition
Charge a lower price
Term
What may have a strong positive impact on demand in an industry?
Definition
Powerful and vigorous complementors.
Term
What are most industries composed of?
Definition
Strategic groups of companies pursuing the same or a similar strategy.
Term
What constitutes a company's immediate competitors?
Definition
The members of a companies strategic group.
Term
Companies in different strategic groups have different what?
Definition
Strategies
Term
What is the feasibility of a company changing its strategic group to improve performance a function of?
Definition
Height of mobility barriers
Term
Why are the competitive forces and strategic group views limited?
Definition
They both don't acknowledge the power of innovation and its effect on competition.
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