Chapter 3 - The Marketing Environment, Ethics, and Social Responsibility Flashcards
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Environmental Scanning
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- The process of collecting information about the external marketing environment to identify and interpret potential trends
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Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
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- Responsible for keeping unsafe products out of the US marketplace
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Environmental Management
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- Attainment of organizational objectives by predicting and influencing the competitive, political-legal, economic, technological, and social-cultural environments
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Strategic Alliances
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- Partnership in which two or more companies combine resources and capital to create competitive advantages in a new market
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Competitive Environment
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- Interactive process that occurs in the marketplace among marketers of directly competitive products, marketers of products that can be substituted for one another, and marketers competing for the customer’s purchasing power
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Monopoly
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- Market structure in which a single seller dominates trade in a good or service for which buyers can find no close sustitutes
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Antitrust
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- Laws designed to prevent restraints on trade such as business monopolies
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Oligopoly
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- Market structure in which relatively few sellers compete and where high start-up costs form barriers to keep out new competitors
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Types of Competition
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- Direct - among marketers of similar products
- Indirect - products that are easily substituted
- All - competition over the limited amount of dollars consumers will spend
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Competitive Strategy
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- Methods through which a firm deals with its competitive environment
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Time-Based Competition
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- Strategy of developing and distributing goods and services more quickly than competitors
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Political-Legal Environment
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- Component of the marketing environment consisting of laws and their interpretations that require firms to operate under competitive conditions and to protect consumer rights
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Phases of US Government Regulation
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- Anti-monopoly Period - antitrust legislation
- Protecting Competitors - small firms wanting legal protection
- Consumer Protection - underlies most laws
- Industry Deregulation - increase competition in certain areas
- Cyberspace - regulating the internet
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FTC
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- The most powerful federal agency
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Gross Domestic Profit
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- Sum of all goods and services produced by a nation in a year