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CH 8-12 Flashcards

1
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List 5 entrepreneurial contexts

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  1. Start up venture
  2. Major corporation
  3. Family owned business
  4. Non-profit organization
  5. Established institution
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(T/F) An entrepreneur creates a company from scratch

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True

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3
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What is needed to create a business?

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  1. Opportunity
  2. Resources
  3. Entrepreneurs
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Characteristics of opportunity are…

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  1. Attractive (demand)
  2. Achievable (realistic/ practical)
  3. Durable (window of opportunity)
  4. Valuable (profitable)
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Resources include..

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  1. Financial capital
  2. Human capital
  3. Social capital
  4. Government
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Where do start ups get their financial capital?

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*Most money come from insider equity (family and friends)

Other sources of money:

  • investor
  • personal debt
  • business debt
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List the entry strategies to entrepreneurship

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  1. Pioneering - radically different
  2. Imitative - proven product into new market
  3. Adaptive - moderately different product or market
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8
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List the 5 hardball strategies

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  1. Devastate rival’s profit sanctuaries
  2. Plagiarize with Pride
  3. deceive the competition
  4. Unleash massive and overwhelming force
  5. Raise competitor’s cost
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Give an example of devastating rival’s profit sanctuaries

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Walmart hurts Best Buy by offering electronic warranties

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Give an example of plagiarize with pride

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Samsung copies Apple

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Give an example of deceive the competition

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Buy small farms secretly

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Give an example of unleash massive and overwhelming force

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Unilever detergent 65% of market share in Vietnam with massive marketing

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Give an example of raise competitor’s costs

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Explain allows competitors to win bids for “no profit” customers

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List 8 theories of Strategic Control

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  1. Expectancy theory
  2. Need theory
  3. Motivator- Hygiene theory
  4. Equity Theory
  5. Goal- setting theory
  6. Operant conditioning theory
  7. Social learning theory
  8. Achievement, affiliation and power
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15
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What is the motivator for the following:

  1. Expectancy theory
  2. Need theory
  3. Motivator- Hygiene theory
  4. Equity Theory
  5. Goal- setting theory
  6. Operant conditioning theory
  7. Social learning theory
  8. Achievement, affiliation and power
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  1. Effort creates outcomes
  2. Need is a motivator
  3. Intrinsic and extrinsic needs
  4. Fairness and justice
  5. Goal provides motivation
  6. Link behavior to outcome
  7. Learning from others and self
  8. Achieving, personal relationships, control
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List external governance

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  1. Market for corporate control (stockholders sell, value goes under book value)
  2. Auditors
  3. Banks
  4. Analysts
  5. Regulatory agencies
  6. Media
  7. Public activists
17
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Corporate governance players (the triangle)

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  1. Shareholders
  2. Board of directors
  3. Management
18
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Types of traditional organizations

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  1. Simple
  2. Functional
  3. Divisional
  4. International
19
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Other Structures of creating an effective organizational design

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  1. Matrix
  2. Strategic business units
  3. Barrier free
  4. Holding company
  5. Virtual organizations
  6. Modular (outsource non-vital sections)
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Effective leadership

  • Set ______
  • ______ an organization
  • Nurture a ______
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  1. Set Direction
  2. Design an organization
  3. Nurture a culture
21
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Emotional intelligence consist of

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  1. Self awareness
  2. Self - regulation
    3: motivation
  3. Empathy
  4. Social skills
22
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Learning organization

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  1. Empower employees
  2. Chars internal knowledge
  3. Integrate external information
  4. Challenges the status quo
  5. Creativity
23
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Ethical organization

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  1. Individual v organizational ethics
  2. Integrity v. Compliance-based
  3. Role models
  4. Corporate credits and codes of conduct
  5. Reward and evaluation system
  6. Policies and procedures
24
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Types of innovation

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  1. Product
  2. Process
  3. Radical
  4. Incremental
  5. Sustaining
  6. Disruptive
25
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Dilemmas of pursuing innovation

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  1. Seeds v. Weeds
  2. Experience v. Initiative
  3. Internal v. External staffing
  4. Build capability v. Collaboration
  5. Incremental v. Preemptive
26
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Innovator’s DNA

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  1. Associating
  2. Questioning
  3. Observing
  4. Experimenting
  5. Networking
27
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At each step of investment you should..

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  1. Continue as planned
  2. Increase
  3. Delay
  4. Reduce
  5. Stop
28
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Types of business risk

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  1. Business
  2. Financial
  3. Personal - career
29
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Formal criteria and back solving

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  1. Managerial conceit
  2. Illusion of control
    3 irrational escalation of commitment

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