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MGMT 101
Chapter 1
Question | Answer |
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Business | All profit-seeking activities and enterprises that provide goods and services necessary to an economic system |
Profits | Rewards earned by businesspeople who take the risks involved in blending people, technology, and information to create and market want-satisfying goods and services |
Not-For-Profit Organizations | Businesslike establishments that have primary objectives other than returning profits to their owners |
Factors of Production | Four basic inputs: natural resources, capital, human resources, and entreprenership |
Natural Resources | All production inputs that are useful in their natural states, including agricultural land, building sites, forests, and mineral deposits |
Entrepreneurship | Willingness to take risks to create and operate a business |
Private Enterprise System | Economic system that rewards firms for their ability to identify and serve the needs and demands of customers |
Capitalism | Economic system that rewards firms for their ability to perceive and serve the needs and demands of consumers; also called the private enterprise system |
Competition | Battle among businesses for consumer acceptance |
Competition Differentiation | Unique combination of organizational abilities, products, and approaches that sets a company apart from competitors in the minds of customers |
Private Property | Most basic freedom under the private enterprise system; the right to own, use, buy, sell and bequeath land, buildings, machinery, equipment, patents, individual possessions, and various intangible kinds of property |
Entrepreneur | Person who seeks profitable opportunity and takes the necessary risks to set up and operate a business |
Consumer Orientation | Business philosophy that focuses first on determining unmet consumer wants and needs and then designing products to satisfy those needs |
Branding | Process of creating an identity in consumers' minds for a good, service, or company; a major marketing tool in contemporary business |
Brand | Name, term, sign, symbol, design, or some combination that identifies the products of one firm and differentiates them from competitors' offerings |
Transaction Management | Building and promoting products in the hope that enough customers will buy them to cover costs and earn profits |
Relationship Era | Business era in which firms seek ways to actively nurture customer loyalty by carefully managing every interaction |
Social Era | Business era in which firms seek ways to connect and interact with customers using technology |
Relationship Manangement | Collection of activities that build and maintain ongoing, mutually beneficial ties with customers and other parties |
Strategic Alliance | Partnership formed to create a competitive advantage for the businesses involved; in international business, a business strategy in which a company finds a partner in the country where it wants to do business |
Diversity | Blending individuals of different genders, ethnic backgrounds, cultures, religions, ages, and physical and mental abilities |
Outsourcing | Using outside vendors to produce goods or fulfill services and functions that were previously handled in-house or in-country |
Offshoring | Relocation of business processes to lower-cost locations overseas |
Nearshoring | Outsourcing production or services to locations near a firm's home base |
Vision | The ability to perceive marketplace needs and what an organization must do to satisfy them |
Critical Thinking | Ability to analyze and assess information to pinpoint problems or opportunities |
Creativity | Capacity to develop novel solutions to perceived organizational problems |