Chapter 6 Flashcards
A worldview that values assertiveness, performance, success, and competition
Achievement orientation
Favors that make it difficult and costly for an organization to enter a particular task environment or industry
Barriers to entry
Customers preference for the products of organizations currently existing in the task environment
Brandon loyalty
A worldview that values subordination of the individual to the goals of the group and adherence to the principal that people should be judged by their contribution to the group
Collectivism
Organizations that produce goods and services that are similar to a particular organization’s goods and services
Competitors
individuals and groups that buy the goods and sercies that an organiztion produces
Customers
outcomes of changes in, or changing attitudes toward, the characteristics of a population, such as age, gender, ethnci origin, race, sexual orientation, and social class
Demographc Factors
organzations that help other organizations sell ther goods or services to customers
distributors
interest rates, inflation, unemployment, econmic growth, and other factors that affect the general health and wll bieng of a nation or the regional economy of an organization
economic forces
cost advantages associated with large operations
economies of scale
the idea that if each country specializes in the production of the goods and services that it can produce most efficiently, this will make the best use of gobal r4esources.
free trade dcotrine
the routine social conventions of everyday life
folkways
the wide ranging global, economic, technologicalm sociocultrural, deomgraphic, political, and lega forces taht affect an organization and its task environment
general environment
the set of global forces and conditions that operate beyond an organizations bourndaries but affect a mangers ability to acquire and tilize resources.
global environment
the set of specific and general forces that work together to integrate and connect economic, political, and social systems across countriesm cultures, or geographical regions so that nations become increasingly interdependent and similar
globalization
an organization that operates and competes in more than one country
global organization
the purchase of inputs from overseas suppliers or the production of inputs abroad to lower production costs andimprove product quality or design
global outsourcing
a woldview that values individual freedom and self expression and adherence to the principle that peope should be judged by their individual acheivements rather than by their social background
individualism
a wolrdview that values thrist and perisitence in achieving goals
long term orientation
norms that are considered to be central to the funcitoning of society and to social life
mores
the set of values that a society considers impoertant and the norms of behavior that are approved or sanctioned in that society
national culture
unwritten rules and codes of condut that prescibe how oeople should act in particular situations.
norms
a wolrdview that values th qualtiy of life, warm personal friendships, and services and care for the weak
nurturing orientation
outcomes of changes in laws and reulations, such as the deregulation of industries, the privatiziation of organizationsm and the increased emphasis on evinmental protections
political and legal forces
organizations that presently are not in a task enviroment bu could enter if they so choose
potential competitors
the degree to which societies accept the idea that inequalities in the power and well bieng of their citizens are due to differences in individuals physical and intellectual capabilities and heritage
power distance
a wolrdview that values perosnal stability or happiness and living for the present
short term orientation
the arrangement of relationships between individuals and groups in a society
social structure
pressues emanting from the social structure of a country or society or form the national culture
sociocultural forces
indivuals and organizations that provide an organization with the input resources that it needs to produce goods and services
suppliers
a tax that a government imposes on imprted or, occasiaonally exported goods
tarriff
the set of forces and conditions that orginate with suppliers, distributors, customers, and competitors and affect an organizations ability to obtain inputs and dispose of its outputs because they influence managers on a daily basis
task environment
the combination of skils and equipment that mangers use in th edsign, producion, and distribution of goods and services
technology
outcomes of changes in the techonlogy that managers use to design, produce, and distribute goods and services
technological forces
the degree to which societies are willing to tolerate uncetrainty and risk
uncertainty avoidance
ideas about what a society believes to be good, right, desirable, or beautiful
values
