Alfredo Strategy test

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Region where costs are minimized
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heterogeneity of resources and capabilities. Aka. Not all competing firms in the industry have the same resources and capabilities
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1 spreading of fixed costs 2 specialization 3 saving on inventories 4 the cube-square rule
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5 steps to trigger sustainable innovation
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A non profit will sell to other no profits at a discount due to aligned mission statements
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Healthy CSR understands
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The weakness of prevailing justifications for CSR is that they don’t recognize the interdependence of
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Firm achieves savings as it increases the variety of goods and services produces
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4 reasons to vertically integrate
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4 prevailing justifications for CSR
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Economies of scale, economies of scope, learning curve
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Internal obstacles to CSR
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Identify the production activities that a firm performs
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When coordination is crucial there is
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A dense web of overlapping property rights that a company must hack its way through in order to actually commercialize new technology. Can stifle innovation
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Higher levels of competition are strongly associated with better management practices
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Being a good citizen and mitigating existing adverse effects from business activities, good citizenship (beyond a check) mitigating harm from value chain
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Large firms and small firms tend to innovate differently with small firms doing more ___________ innovation and large firms doing more ____________ innovation
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Free entry and imitation:
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When firms engage in activities that appears to advance a social agenda beyond that which is required by law
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Mission statement alignment is important but high powered incentives can substitute for mission alignment
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The combination of strategies in a game such that neither player has an incentive to change the strategies of his opponent
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It is easier to cooperate with _____ ________ rates
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If: immediate benefit – PV of future cost =or< 0
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______________ levels of competition are associated with large levels of innovation
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Agreement between two companies that grants each the right to practice the others patents, settles all existing patent disputes, and applies to the entire portfolio.
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2 ways to think about compliance
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To continue to make profits despite differentiation
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_____________________ identify the quantity and varieties of products and services that firm produces.
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An entire group of patents is licensed in a package either by one of the patent holders or by a new entity established for this purpose
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Do not over integrate unless absolutely necessary. Vertical integration is expensive, risky, and difficult to reverse.
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If: immediate benefit – PV of future cost > 0
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Range of outputs when average cost declines over that range
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A new technology may cannibalize an existing product and as such there is no need to innovate – just wait and see. However, if someone else is bringing the tech to market then cannibalization may be justified.
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A strategy that produces the highest payoff to a player regardless of the other players actions
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__________ firms have advantage in dealing with new technology

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activities that a firm does especially well compared with other firms
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_______________ used to avoid the threat of a hold up. Hard to use in complex environment and weak _____________ enforcement.
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3 categories of social issues
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Test to guide good CSR
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Patents are for things that are:
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if there are persistent asymmetries among resources of firms and it is difficult for underperforming firms to obtain the resources or capabilities of the top performers then
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Beyond a certain size bigger is not better
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Key requirements to be successful in green innovation
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Do: avoid detection, differentiate, customer focus, learn & experiment, speed up!! Don’t: awake the giant, try to rush the S-curve, underestimate the costs of value chain building.
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Find CSR strategy that renders company unique and maximizes impact on firm and society. Inside out and outside in, exploits value chain to find activities with dual benefits
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Begins with acquisition of raw materials, ends with sale of finished goods/services, includes support services such as finance and marketing
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1 increasing labor costs 2 bureaucracy effects 3 scarcity of specialized resources 4 conflicting out
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Rules for green innovation
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When conflict of interest is extreme there is a