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Global Strategy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Each firm's theory about how to compete successfully in whatever
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global markets the firm chooses to compete
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Stragegy as a Plan - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Suggests that strategy is embodied in the same explicit rigorous
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formal planning as in the military
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Strategy as an Action - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Suggests that strategy is most fundamentally reflected by firms'
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patterns of action
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Strategy as an Integration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Defines strategy as "a firm's theory about how to compete
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successfully"
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Multi-market competition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Occurs when firms engage the same rivals inmultiple
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markets
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Mutual forbearance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Reduction of competitive intensity among rivals of multi-market
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competition industries
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,Industry-based considerations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Always concerned with inter-firm rivalry
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Concentration; industry leader; product homogeneity; stability of demand and supply; entry barriers; market
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commonality with rivals
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Collusion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Collective attempts to reduce competition
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Tacit collusion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔when firms indirectly coordinate actions by signaling intent to reduce
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output andmaintain pricingabove competitive levels
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Explicit collusion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔when firms directly negotiate production output and pricing
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agreements to reduce competition and divide markets
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Cartel - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔An output and price-fixing entity involving multiple competitors
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Resource-based considerations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Include: value; rarity; imitability; organization;
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resource similarity; and fighting low-cost rivals
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valuable capabilities to attack, deter or retaliate; rarity of certain assets; imitability of competition;
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organizational skills for actions; resource similarity with rivals
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Institution-based considerations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Advise managers to be well versed in the "rules of
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the game" governing domestic and international competition
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domestic competition: primarily competition/anti-trust policy
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International competition: primarily trade/anti-dumping policy
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, American Anti-trust policy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Pro-consumer
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Collusive price setting - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Anti-trust law that refers to monopolists or collusion parties
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setting prices at a level higher than the competitive level
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Predatory pricing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Anti-trust lawthat refers to practices of setting prices below costs in
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the short run to destroy rivals with the intent of raising prices to cover losses in the longrun after eliminating
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rivals
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Extraterritoriality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The reach of one country's laws to other countries j j j j j j j j j j j
Dumping - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔An exporter selling below cost abroad and planningto raise prices after
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eliminating local rivals in an attempt to manipulate international competition
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Export cartels - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Alliances of firms that cooperate inexporting
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Attack - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔An initial set of actions to gain competitive advantage.
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Counterattack - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a set of actions in response to an attack j j j j j j j j j j j
3 main types of attack - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Thrust: brute force
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feint: attack on a focal arena important to a competitor
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gambit: a move that sacrifices a low-value piece inorder to capture a high-value piece or improve one's position
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