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Change in industries is driven chiefly by the forces of technology, market demand and economics.
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Massive and unpredictable changes occur in some industries, but less so in others.
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Firms are continually trying to erode the competitive advantage of rivals, and to build and maintain their own competitive advantage.
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The industry life cycle comprises 4 stages: introduction, growth, maturity, decline - so is indistinguishable from the product life cycle.
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Two main factors drive industry evolution: demand growth and the production and diffusion of knowledge.
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The introduction to maturity phases of the industry life cycle curve is characteristically U-shaped.
True
False
False
The industry life cycle consists of four stages: 1)
Introductory, 2) Growth, 3) Plateau, and 4) Rejuvenation.
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False
The duration of the industry life cycle varies greatly from one industry to another.
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False
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Over time, industry life cycles become longer and longer.
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A dominant design is one which is the most noticeable, or receives the most publicity.
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The emergence of a dominant product design tends to coincide with a shift towards process innovation
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A dominant design defines the look, functionality and production
method for a product and becomes accepted by the industry as a whole.
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False
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Technical standards have the most dramatic effect in markets exhibiting network effects because users not adopting the standard risk isolation.
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False
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Emphasis often shifts from product innovation to process innovation,
once a dominant design emerges.
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Firms often imitate each other's strategies in order to gain legitimacy
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Anderson and Tushman point out that all technological change is "competence destroying"
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Established firms often find it difficult to adapt to new technologies even though they are well aware of these technologies
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The emphasis of organizational development is upon individual organizational units and bottom-up change
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False
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A firm is said to be "ambidextrous" when
it is able to exploit its existing technology successfully
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False
False
Change in the industry environment faced by a firm is:
a. Massive and unpredictable
b. Gradual and predictable
c. Could be either answer a or b, depending on the industry and the prevailing conditions
d. Easier for large firms to cope with
c. Could be either answer a or b, depending on the industry and the prevailing conditions
Change in an industry is the result of:
a. The forces of technology, consumer preferences, and economic growth
b. Both external forces and the incumbents' competitive strategies
c. The effect of the "5 forces" model of competition
d. Economic and psychological factors
b. Both external forces and the incumbents' competitive strategies
The industry life cycle:
a. Is an extension of the concept of the product life cycle
b. Uses the same stages as the product life cycle
c. Often lasts much longer than a typical product life cycle
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
The text claims that two factors are fundamental to the industry life cycle. One of these is:
a. The production and diffusion of
knowledge
b. Industrial production and the diffusion of knowledge
c. Demand during the growth phase
d. Demand for growth in the diffusion of knowledge
a. The production and diffusion of knowledge
The decline phase of the industry life cycle is caused by:
a. The emergence of a radically better substitute product, representing a new industry
b. Tired old firms running out of new ideas
c. Existing
firms leaving the industry to move to a more profitable one
d. Excessive market saturation
a. The emergence of a radically better substitute product, representing a new industry
A new industry life cycle begins when:
a. A very large gap in the market emerges
b. Another industry dies
c. New knowledge manifests itself in the guise of a sufficiently radical product innovation
d. There are sufficient
entrepreneurs
c. New knowledge manifests itself in the guise of a sufficiently radical product innovation
A dominant design is:
a. One which has won the most industrial design awards
b. An emergent de facto industry standard broad product format
c. The one advertised most strongly by the market leader
d. The latest new product which gains the most media attention
b. An emergent de facto industry standard broad product format
A technical standard:
a. Only occurs in computing when there is a network effect
b. Emerges when there are interconnectivity and interface compatibility issues
c. Can emerge for safety and other reasons from standards bodies
d. Answers b and c
d. Answers b and c
The different stages of the
industry life cycles are characterised by:
a. The evolution of the industry growth rate over time
b. The evolution of the competition in the industry
c. The evolution of a firm's market share
d. None of the above
a. The evolution of the industry growth rate over time
An industry life cycle:
a. Always follows the theoretical pattern
b. May never enter the decline phase in industries supplying
basic essential products or services
c. Must be the same everywhere, due to globalisation
d. Can never really experience a resurgence
b. May never enter the decline phase in industries supplying basic essential products or services
The PC industry clearly began in the 1970's because:
a. It did not exist at all prior to this time
b. The introduction phase was typical: no mass market, many product
variants, small firms
C. By the 1980's, the growth phase had begun, with a design standard emerging
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
As the industry life cycle progresses, overall strategies need to:
a. Stay steady and not waver; don't change anything
b. Change in most major aspects
c. Primarily focus on cost-cutting
d. None of the above
b. Change in most major aspects
Start-up firms in a new industry are also sometimes known as:
a. de alio entrants
b. de novo entrants
c. de bono entrants
d. de facto entrants
b. de novo entrants
Firms entering a new industry who were already established in a related industry are sometimes known as:
a. de alio entrants
b. de novo entrants
c. de facto
entrants
d. Both b and c
a. de alio entrants
The basis of entering a new industry at the Introduction phase is:
a. Effective product innovation
b. Effective process innovation
c. Effective promotional material
d. Effective sales people
a. Effective product innovation
A "born global" company is one which:
a.
Interacts across the world from the outset - especially regarding selling
b. Is a "virtual" company
c. Is spun out of an existing global company
d. Has an international cultural appreciation
a. Interacts across the world from the outset - especially regarding selling
Often, to succeed in the evolution from introduction to growth a firm:
a. Needs to acquire an injection of cash from a venture capital
company
b. Needs to be closely associated with the dominant design which emerges
c. Needs to buy a major competitor
d. Needs to pull back on product innovation
b. Needs to be closely associated with the dominant design which emerges
The key challenges for firms entering the growth phase of the industry life cycle is
a. "scaling up" its output
b. obtaining sufficient resources and capabilities to
support effective scaling-up of operations
c. adapting their product designs and manufacturing capabilities to accommodate large-scale production
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
To survive going into the maturity phase of the industry life cycle a firm needs to:
a. Outsource all production
b. Get rid of all research and development staff
c. Emphasise cost efficiency
d. Cut
wages
c. Emphasise cost efficiency
With the onset of the maturity stage, the number of firms in most industries:
a. Remains relatively stable
b. Tends to decrease significantly
c. Increases significantly
d. Decreases or increases, depending on the industry
b. Tends to decrease significantly
The typical cause of the
decline phase in an industry is:
a. Technological substitution e.g. the horse and cart replaced by the car
b. Local regional decline due to low-cost foreign competition
c. Changing consumer tastes e.g. tobacco
d. Any of the above
d. Any of the above
Key features of the decline phase of the industry life cycle typically include:
a. aggressive price competition and a declining number of
competitors
b. aggressive price competition and an increasing number of competitors
c. excess capacity and rapid technical change
d. shortages in capacity and a lack of technical change
a. aggressive price competition and a declining number of competitors
The determining factors of how calamitous the decline phase turns out to be are:
a. The way capacity is dismantled as demand declines, and how
dramatic is the decline in demand
b. Whether a price war breaks out, and how many firms remain
c. The actions of foreign competition, and how fast workers can be fired
d. How quickly the new industry can ramp up production, and what prices they sell at
a. The way capacity is dismantled as demand declines, and how dramatic is the decline in demand
The key success factor in the Introduction phase of the
industry is:
a. Effective product innovation i.e. getting new products launched and in front of customers
b. Making sure the workforce is multi-skilled
c. Having a committed workforce, e.g. prepared to work weekends for no extra wages
d. Just being creative
a. Effective product innovation i.e. getting new products launched and in front of customers
The key success factor for leading firms in the
Growth phase is:
a. Knowing what competitors are doing - even resorting to espionage
b. Taking business away from rivals
c. Employing a commission-oriented sales force
d. Being able to scale up volume production and operations effectively and efficiently
d. Being able to scale up volume production and operations effectively and efficiently
The key success factor for firms surviving in the Maturity
phase is:
a. Buying as many competitors as you can
b. Maintaining cost efficiency that matches or exceeds that of competitors
c. "Two for One" deals and other special offers
d. All of the above
b. Maintaining cost efficiency that matches or exceeds that of competitors
Which of the following elements function as limitations for organizational change?
a. anthem quest for satisfactory rather than
optimal performance
b. Managers limiting the scope of options they are able or willing to consider
c. Preference for exploitation rather than exploration
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
The fact that some firms such as BASF, Exxon, and General Electric have been leaders in their industries for almost a century, indicates that:
a. Some firms have built the capability to adapt themselves to
change in their environment time after time
b. Economies of scale are the most powerful drivers of performance
c. Size is the key predictor for success
d. A firm's age is the critical variable for profitability
a. Some firms have built the capability to adapt themselves to change in their environment time after time
Firms that create new products or services are often not the ones that successfully
market them. The reason is that:
a. The capabilities needed for invention are different and even conflict with those required for commercialization
b. There is a connection between the stage of the industry life cycle and the age of firm
c. Large companies steal their ideas.
d. The innovators have shifted their strategic orientations to different products or services
a. The capabilities needed for invention are different and even conflict with those required for commercialization
Disruptive technologies are:
a. Innovations that threaten existing industry leaders and generally offer potentially superior performance at lower price than existing products
b. Innovations that radically change the product or service
c. Innovations that overcome existing barriers to entry in the industry
d. Quite normal in an industry's life
a. Innovations that threaten existing industry leaders and generally offer potentially superior performance at lower price than existing products
The starting point for managing change is:
a. For managers to recognize the sources of inertia or barriers to change
b. That managers do not let their own agenda supersede the firm's overall interest
c. To possess enough resources to implement change
d. That managers exhibit enough courage and will to
change
a. For managers to recognize the sources of inertia or barriers to change
Some firms create new organizational units instead of modifying the existing structure, because:
a. Existing structures are often locked into existing routines
b. There is not enough time to transform existing structures
c. These firms want a fresh start
d. These firms do not plan; they manage change
reactively
a. Existing structures are often locked into existing routines
A firm can simultaneously pursue dual strategies:
a. This goes against all the theory on strategy
b. It can, so long as it maintains separate organizations to pursue each strategy
c. This is impossible
d. This is only possible in large multinational firms.
b. It can, so long as it maintains separate organizations to pursue each strategy
Radical top-down organizational change:
a. Is usually only successfully implemented if the workforce is convinced that a crisis looms
b. Often should be implemented in advance of a crisis occurring
c. Is typically only undertaken following declining performance.
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
Dynamic
capabilities:
a. Are the capacity to learn new capabilities
b. Can be acquired through 'reverse takeovers'
c. Develop rapidly in some industries, then die
d. Answers b and c
a. Are the capacity to learn new capabilities
Scenario analysis is usually used to deal with:
a. What a firm might do in the long-term future
b. The uncertainty and consequences of radically different possible futures
c.
How flexibly managers should think in coping with uncertain futures
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
The value of the scenario analysis lies in:
a. The results of the analysis
b. The process of managers being involved in the analysis
c. The practical implications of the results
d. Its low cost
b. The process of managers being involved in the analysis
A succession of management gurus including Tom Peters to Gary Hamel have argued that the key to achieving competitive advantage is:
a. adapting quickly to external change
b. changing incrementally
c. initiating change and achieving internal "revolution"
d. adapting to change in an orderly fashion
c. initiating change and achieving internal "revolution"
The
statement that organizational capabilities are path dependent means that:
a. past circumstances influenced past capabilities
b. a company's capabilities today are the result of its history
c. a company needs to plan how it develops new capabilities
d. Both a and c
b. a company's capabilities today are the result of its history
The building for developing new capabilities include:
a. creating
mechanisms that facilitate "learning by doing"
b. locating the people that can contribute to the capability in the same organizational unit
c. ensuring the components of the capability are aligned
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
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