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Management
Question | Answer |
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PRIMARY GOODS | satisfy essential needs |
NON-ESSENTIAL GOODS | satisfy non-essential needs |
Complementary goods | You need both to satisfy a need |
Substitute goods | You need only one to satisfy a need |
Differentiable goods | Different characteristics |
Commodities | no features |
Consumer goods | For final use |
Industrial goods | Used to produce other goods |
Disposable goods | Used once |
Durable goods | Used more than once |
Goods for individuals | Consumed by single individuals |
Collective consumption | Consumed by more individuals |
Public goods | The goods that are both non-excludable and non-rivalrous in consumption or produced by the state. |
EXCLUDABILITY | Consumption can exclude other people consumptions |
Rivalry | Consumption excludes the consumption of other similar products |
What an economic activity involves? | Technical transformation, Transactions, Complementary activities (i.e management) |
Individuals in business | - Owners - Customers - Employees |
Management | Oversees a company and manage its resources |
Marketing | Focus on the 4 P’s –product, price, place/distribution and promotion |
Finance | All the activities involving money |
Entrepreneur | An individual who risks its time, money and resources to create a profitable company |
Role of government: | - preserves competition and protects the economic agents - controls market fluctuations and reduces unemployment - stimulates the market spending |
Non-profit organizations: | - private and are not allowed to distribute their profits or assets - require skills to manage them - could involve many activities |
Business: | Any organization that is engaged in making a product providing a service for profit |
Society: | refers to human beings (members of aparticular community, nation, or interest group)and to the social structures they collectively create. |