Which of the following generally does not act to weaken the rivalry among competing sellers?

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What makes the marketplace a competitive battlefield is

the constant jockeying of industry members to deploy whatever means in their business arsenals they believe will attract and retain buyers, strengthen their market positions, improve profitability
ideally help them win a competitive edge over their rivals.

Which of the following does not tend to weaken buyer bargaining power

buyer demand is weak in relation to the available supply and industry members are eager to sell more units

Based on Figure 3.4, which of the following is not a typical competitive weapon that a company can use to battle rivals and attract buyers?

winning a bigger market share

The strongest of the competitive forces in the five-forces model of competition is usually

the competitive pressures associated with the market maneuvering and jockeying for buyer patronage among rival sellers in the industry

Which one of the following generally does not act to weaken the rivalry among competing sellers?

A situation where one or two rivals have powerful strategies and other rivals are scrambling to stay in the game

Which one of the following conditions weakens the competitive pressures associated with the threat of entry?

Existing industry members have little interest in expanding their market reach by entering product segments or geographic areas where they currently do not have a presence

Which of the following is not generally a "driving force" capable of producing fundamental changes in industry and competitive conditions?

Shifts upward or downward in interest rates, the inflation rate, and the unemployment rate

Driving forces analysis entails

identifying the driving forces are, assessing whether the drivers of a change are, on the whole, acting to make the industry more or less attractive, determining what strategy changes are need to prepare for the impacts of the driving forces.

Which one of the following is not a useful question for company managers to pose in trying to predict the likely actions of important rivals?

Which competitors are in the best strategic group in the industry

The concept of strategic groups is relevant to industry and competitive analysis because

strategic group maps help identify which industry members are close rivals and which are distant rivals

Just how strong the competitive pressures are from substitute products depends on whether

buyers have high or low costs in switching to substitutes and whether substitutes are readily available, attractively priced, and have comparable or better performance features

Which of the following is not a major question to as in gaining deep understanding about a company's industry and competitive environment?

How big is the market for the industry's product/service and how fast is it growing?

A competitive environment where there is a dead to moderate rivalry among sellers, high entry barriers, wear competition from substitute products, and little bargaining leverage on the part of both suppliers and customers

is conducive to industry members earning attractive profits

Whether an industry presents a company with good prospects for attractive growth and profitability

hinges in part on such considerations as the industry's growth potential, the anticipated strength of competitive forces, whether the company is strongly or weakly positioned on the industry's strategic group map, and whether and to what degree industry profitability will be favorable or unfavorably affected by the industry's driving forces

The best test of whether potential entry is a string or weak competitive force is whether

the industry's growth and profit prospects are strongly attractive to potential entry candidates

The rivalry among competing sellers tends to be more intense when

industry members have too much inventory or significant amounts of idle production capacity especially if the industry's product entails high storage costs or high fixed costs

The bargaining leverage of suppliers is stronger when

there are no good substitutes for the items being furnished by the suppliers and there are only a few "preferred" suppliers of a particular input

Which of the following generally do not qualify as a barrier to entry?

Rapid market growth and low degrees of customer loyalty to existing brands

The key success factors in an industry

are those competitive factors that most affect industry members abilities to prosper in marketplace-- the particular strategy elements, product attributes, resource strengths, competitive capabilities, and market achievements that spell the difference between being a strong competitor and a weak competitor (and sometimes the difference between profit and loss)

Which one of the following conditions acts to intensify the competitive pressures associated with threat of entry?

A general belief on the part of entry candidates that industry members are unwilling or unable to strongly contest the efforts of newcomers to gain a market foothold

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