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This study examines the relationship between goodwill impairment losses and bond credit ratings using regression analysis. The results show a negative relationship, such that firms with higher goodwill impairment losses receive lower credit ratings. Additional tests considering market conditions, changes over time, and addressing endogeneity support this finding. This study contributes to the literature on goodwill impairment and bond credit ratings by being the first to directly examine the relationship between the two at the firm level. The findings suggest that credit rating agencies may use goodwill impairment information when assessing firm creditworthiness.
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Utilizing an advanced research methodology, the primary objective of this paper is to provide policy-makers (and those affected by government policy) with a multi-dimensional “objective lens” through which they will be able to view the veracity of both existing as well as contemplated initiatives. The resulting insights will empower program champions to take the necessary steps to deliver tangible and sustainable results.
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This paper was was written by Trevor Brown (John Glenn School of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University), Matthew Potoski (Department of Political Science, Iowa State University), and David Van Slyke (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University) for the Kettering Symposium on Public Accountability, May 22 - 24, 2008.
It is an interestingly insightful and useful paper that has be used as a reference point for the February 4th, 2010 Contacting Intelligence Post: Complex contracting in the public sector: Managing relations and negotiating contracts in the absence of market discipline (http://wp.me/pYOvn-7u)
The document suggests moving past traditional hiring methods like resumes, cover letters, and references that may not fully capture a person's abilities. It recommends instead directly measuring a person's true contributions to determine their value.
This document provides details about Lab 2 for CIS 336 at Devry University. [1] The lab introduces Entity Relationship Diagrams and has students create an ERD for a grocery store business case. [2] It provides entity and attribute information for the grocery store and instructs students to draw the ERD using Visio with correct cardinalities and relationship names. [3] The deliverable is a Word document with the completed ERD copied from Visio.
This document provides a quiz with 30 multiple choice questions related to economics topics like insurance, risk, asymmetric information, and organizational structures. The questions cover concepts such as moral hazard, adverse selection, principal-agent relationships, and different types of business entities. Sample questions ask about examples of moral hazard, effects of asymmetric information in markets, and characteristics of sole proprietorships versus corporations.
This document provides instructions for Lab 4 of a database course. The lab introduces the SQL SELECT statement and how to retrieve data from database tables. Students are instructed to download SQL scripts to populate tables and then write 13 SELECT queries to retrieve and filter data according to the steps. The queries must be written in a script file and the output captured. Students are given guidance on formatting their queries, testing them, and submitting their work.
This study examines the relationship between goodwill impairment losses and bond credit ratings using regression analysis. The results show a negative relationship, such that firms with higher goodwill impairment losses receive lower credit ratings. Additional tests considering market conditions, changes over time, and addressing endogeneity support this finding. This study contributes to the literature on goodwill impairment and bond credit ratings by being the first to directly examine the relationship between the two at the firm level. The findings suggest that credit rating agencies may use goodwill impairment information when assessing firm creditworthiness.
Yes Virginia! A Profile In Excellence White PaperJon Hansen
Who Can Benefit from this Paper?
This thought provoking white paper is an essential resource tool for public sector organizations that are already in the midst of an established program, or ones who are contemplating a change. Although they do not operate within the same framework of a public or government entity, private sector companies can also gain important insight as the paper’s principles are universal in their applicability.
Utilizing an advanced research methodology, the primary objective of this paper is to provide policy-makers (and those affected by government policy) with a multi-dimensional “objective lens” through which they will be able to view the veracity of both existing as well as contemplated initiatives. The resulting insights will empower program champions to take the necessary steps to deliver tangible and sustainable results.
Complex Contracting in the Public SectorJon Hansen
This paper was was written by Trevor Brown (John Glenn School of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University), Matthew Potoski (Department of Political Science, Iowa State University), and David Van Slyke (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University) for the Kettering Symposium on Public Accountability, May 22 - 24, 2008.
It is an interestingly insightful and useful paper that has be used as a reference point for the February 4th, 2010 Contacting Intelligence Post: Complex contracting in the public sector: Managing relations and negotiating contracts in the absence of market discipline (http://wp.me/pYOvn-7u)
The document suggests moving past traditional hiring methods like resumes, cover letters, and references that may not fully capture a person's abilities. It recommends instead directly measuring a person's true contributions to determine their value.
This document provides details about Lab 2 for CIS 336 at Devry University. [1] The lab introduces Entity Relationship Diagrams and has students create an ERD for a grocery store business case. [2] It provides entity and attribute information for the grocery store and instructs students to draw the ERD using Visio with correct cardinalities and relationship names. [3] The deliverable is a Word document with the completed ERD copied from Visio.
This document provides a quiz with 30 multiple choice questions related to economics topics like insurance, risk, asymmetric information, and organizational structures. The questions cover concepts such as moral hazard, adverse selection, principal-agent relationships, and different types of business entities. Sample questions ask about examples of moral hazard, effects of asymmetric information in markets, and characteristics of sole proprietorships versus corporations.
This document provides instructions for Lab 4 of a database course. The lab introduces the SQL SELECT statement and how to retrieve data from database tables. Students are instructed to download SQL scripts to populate tables and then write 13 SELECT queries to retrieve and filter data according to the steps. The queries must be written in a script file and the output captured. Students are given guidance on formatting their queries, testing them, and submitting their work.
The document provides instructions for a lab assignment to create a relational database for a student information system. Students are asked to:
1. Create a SQL script file to build 7 tables from the metadata provided, including primary and foreign keys.
2. Populate the tables using sample data and INSERT statements.
3. Write SELECT statements to verify the data was inserted correctly.
This document provides instructions for Lab 5 of a database course. The lab involves writing 13 SQL queries to retrieve data from multiple tables in a database. Students are instructed to write the queries using note pad and test them in SQL*Plus before submitting their script file and output file. The output file should include both the SQL queries and resulting data sets. The lab steps provide details of the data to be retrieved by each query, such as joining specific tables, applying functions, and filtering results. Students are advised to review their work and output before submitting.
This document provides a quiz with 30 multiple choice questions related to economics topics like transaction costs, contracts, and externalities. Some key details covered include how government policies can impact transaction costs, examples of specific assets, remedies for contract breaches like expectation damages, and types of payment arrangements between parties like contingency fees.
This document provides instructions for a lab involving creating relationship diagrams from database table definitions. Students are asked to draw relationship diagrams connecting tables for customers, orders, employees, product lines, and order details. They are also asked to analyze whether a foreign key column should allow null values and identify entities and attributes from a database project specification.
This document discusses different types of guitars, including acoustic guitars made of nylon or steel strings, electric guitars, bass guitars, and other less common varieties such as cigar box guitars and fretless guitars. It groups guitars into broad acoustic, electric, and bass categories and lists some alternative guitar styles.
Este documento contiene una serie de fichas de matemáticas con operaciones aritméticas básicas como suma, resta, multiplicación y división. Cada ficha presenta 4 problemas con sus respectivas operaciones y resultados. El documento proporciona varias fichas con el fin de que los estudiantes practiquen y repasen operaciones numéricas.
This document outlines best practices for social media marketing. It discusses building a strong foundation on social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. Key recommendations include posting engaging content like images and videos, running contests to boost engagement, customizing apps, adding milestones, embracing fans, sharing behind the scenes photos on Twitter, being an expert resource, and thanking followers. It also emphasizes the importance of networking online and offline and building strategic alliances through consistent and creative social media use.
- Black & Decker pursued an international expansion strategy during the 1950s-1960s by setting up wholly owned subsidiaries in other countries that were given autonomy to operate. This decentralized structure made sense given Black & Decker's monopoly in the power tools market at the time.
- In the 1980s-1990s, increased competition from large retailers put pressure on Black & Decker's prices. The company responded by further centralizing control over subsidiaries and engaging in cost-cutting measures to lower prices.
- By the 1990s, it was clear that Black & Decker needed to make larger strategic changes beyond just cost-cutting to address the competitive environment.
This document provides an overview of the coursework for ECO 550 at Strayer University. It includes discussion questions, chapter questions, and a quiz for weeks 1 and 2 of the course. The questions cover topics such as characteristics of transactions, the role of institutions, supply and demand, market structures, and costs.
The document provides details of an assignment for an ECO 550 course. Students are asked to assume the role of a managing consultant advising a fictional company. The company uses 100 workers to produce 6,000 units per month at a total cost that exceeds total revenue. Students must analyze the company's financial performance and environmental factors to recommend whether it should continue or discontinue operations. They must also provide a plan to improve profitability if operations continue. The assignment requires calculations and at least three academic sources.
The document provides details of an assignment for an ECO 550 course. Students are asked to assume the role of a managing consultant advising a fictional company. The company produces 6,000 units per month at a cost of $70 per worker per day, plus $2,000 in other daily variable costs. It has high fixed costs. Students must analyze the company's financial performance and environmental factors to recommend whether it should continue or discontinue operations, showing calculations. They must also propose improvements and the conditions for discontinuing operations.
The document provides details of an assignment for an ECO 550 course. Students are asked to assume the role of a managing consultant advising a fictional company. The company produces 6,000 units per month at a cost of $70 per worker per day, plus $2,000 in other daily variable costs. It has high fixed costs. Students must analyze the company's financial performance and environmental factors to recommend whether it should continue or discontinue operations, showing calculations. They must also propose improvements and the circumstances for discontinuing operations.
This document provides a quiz with 30 multiple choice questions related to economics topics like insurance, risk, asymmetric information, and organizational forms. The questions cover concepts such as moral hazard, adverse selection, principal-agent problems, and different business structures involving ownership, management, and liability.
This document provides a quiz with 30 multiple choice questions related to economics topics like insurance, risk, asymmetric information, and organizational forms. The questions cover concepts such as moral hazard, adverse selection, signaling, warranties, and principal-agent relationships in insurance markets. Other questions address asset risk correlation, opportunism in corporations, institutional investors, and ways for corporations to raise initial capital like public stock offerings.
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*Task 1
4.2 Divide into small groups of five to seven persons. Select a group discussion leader and a person to record responses. Use the brainstorming guidelines to conduct a five-minute brainstorming session on the following topic. Your goal is to identify creative solutions to the problem: Employees in large companies often complain that personal worth perception is low. They feel that the company does not overtly reward them for their contributions and set procedures that allow them to be most productive and creative.
* Based on the problem given in 4.2, complete the following tasks:
a. Brainstorm how the company can reward efforts and increase the perception of personal worth other than issuing pay increases.
b. Use nominal group technique to find the best solution to the employee personal-worth perception problem. Consider the solutions from the brainstorming activity and select the "best" solution from that set.
c. Use consensus decision making with the goal of selecting a solution to the employee personalworth perception problem to which all members of the group can commit
*Task 2
5.1 Develop a set of general frames to codify the following:
• A horse
• A student
• An airline pilot
Use these frames and describe the following:
• Flashdance, an 18-hand thoroughbred
• Brenda, a medium-height, fourth-year liberal arts students
• Fred, a 30-year veteran airline captain
*Task 3
5.2 Someone suggested two types of potential knowledge developers: “Send me a well-developed computer programmer or a programmer competent in several languages, and we’ll make him or her into a successful knowledge developer.”
and
“Send me a talented generalist with well-developed interpersonal skills or somewhat more delicately, ‘a user friendly person’ and a rigorously analytical mind, and we’ll team him or her with a competent knowledge developer.”
In your opinion, which approach would be more successful in knowledge development? Why?
*Task 4
Task 1: Implementation of Knowledge Management
7.1 Give your views on failure of implementation of knowledge management at a global company based on five distinct stages of knowledge management:
Stage 1: Advocate and learn Stage
2: Develop strategy Stage
3: Design and launch KM initiatives Stage
4: Expand and support initiatives Stage
5: Institutionalize knowledge management
Case study: A global company (Source: Chua, A. and Lam, W., “Why KM projects fail: a multi-case analysis”, Journal of Knowledge Management, vol. 9, no. 3 (2005).)
A global company, which was one of the top ten organizations in its industry, lost a number of deals because of its inability to offer integrated solutions in the order handling line of business. In response, the management commissioned a KM project known as Alpha with the objective to create a “blueprint for gaining and maintaining global order handling services market leadership”. Underpinning Alpha was a comprehensive attempt to manage the knowledge across the company.
W.
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1) Flextronics was facing pressure from OEMs to reduce costs while also dealing with slowing industry orders. Their disparate systems led to purchasing compliance issues where they did not always source at the lowest prices.
2) Traditional supply chain management focused on functions rather than the whole system, and reactive problem-solving rather than prevention. Effective management requires a holistic and proactive approach.
3) Common pitfalls include focusing on parts over the whole, serial changes that confuse stakeholders, and failing to adapt to changes. Adaptive organizations like GE focus
This document provides an overview of environmental factors that influence organizations and how organizations can influence their environments. It discusses the macro environment and competitive environment that organizations operate within. Key aspects of the macro environment covered include the economy, technology, demographics, social/natural environment issues, and regulations/laws. The competitive environment includes competitors, new entrants, substitutes/complements, suppliers, and customers. The document also explores how organizations analyze and respond to their environments through environmental scanning, benchmarking, and various strategies to adapt to or influence their external surroundings. Finally, it discusses the role of organizational culture and how culture can impact an organization's response to its environment.
The document provides instructions for a lab assignment to create a relational database for a student information system. Students are asked to:
1. Create a SQL script file to build 7 tables from the metadata provided, including primary and foreign keys.
2. Populate the tables using sample data and INSERT statements.
3. Write SELECT statements to verify the data was inserted correctly.
This document provides instructions for Lab 5 of a database course. The lab involves writing 13 SQL queries to retrieve data from multiple tables in a database. Students are instructed to write the queries using note pad and test them in SQL*Plus before submitting their script file and output file. The output file should include both the SQL queries and resulting data sets. The lab steps provide details of the data to be retrieved by each query, such as joining specific tables, applying functions, and filtering results. Students are advised to review their work and output before submitting.
This document provides a quiz with 30 multiple choice questions related to economics topics like transaction costs, contracts, and externalities. Some key details covered include how government policies can impact transaction costs, examples of specific assets, remedies for contract breaches like expectation damages, and types of payment arrangements between parties like contingency fees.
This document provides instructions for a lab involving creating relationship diagrams from database table definitions. Students are asked to draw relationship diagrams connecting tables for customers, orders, employees, product lines, and order details. They are also asked to analyze whether a foreign key column should allow null values and identify entities and attributes from a database project specification.
This document discusses different types of guitars, including acoustic guitars made of nylon or steel strings, electric guitars, bass guitars, and other less common varieties such as cigar box guitars and fretless guitars. It groups guitars into broad acoustic, electric, and bass categories and lists some alternative guitar styles.
Este documento contiene una serie de fichas de matemáticas con operaciones aritméticas básicas como suma, resta, multiplicación y división. Cada ficha presenta 4 problemas con sus respectivas operaciones y resultados. El documento proporciona varias fichas con el fin de que los estudiantes practiquen y repasen operaciones numéricas.
This document outlines best practices for social media marketing. It discusses building a strong foundation on social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. Key recommendations include posting engaging content like images and videos, running contests to boost engagement, customizing apps, adding milestones, embracing fans, sharing behind the scenes photos on Twitter, being an expert resource, and thanking followers. It also emphasizes the importance of networking online and offline and building strategic alliances through consistent and creative social media use.
- Black & Decker pursued an international expansion strategy during the 1950s-1960s by setting up wholly owned subsidiaries in other countries that were given autonomy to operate. This decentralized structure made sense given Black & Decker's monopoly in the power tools market at the time.
- In the 1980s-1990s, increased competition from large retailers put pressure on Black & Decker's prices. The company responded by further centralizing control over subsidiaries and engaging in cost-cutting measures to lower prices.
- By the 1990s, it was clear that Black & Decker needed to make larger strategic changes beyond just cost-cutting to address the competitive environment.
This document provides an overview of the coursework for ECO 550 at Strayer University. It includes discussion questions, chapter questions, and a quiz for weeks 1 and 2 of the course. The questions cover topics such as characteristics of transactions, the role of institutions, supply and demand, market structures, and costs.
The document provides details of an assignment for an ECO 550 course. Students are asked to assume the role of a managing consultant advising a fictional company. The company uses 100 workers to produce 6,000 units per month at a total cost that exceeds total revenue. Students must analyze the company's financial performance and environmental factors to recommend whether it should continue or discontinue operations. They must also provide a plan to improve profitability if operations continue. The assignment requires calculations and at least three academic sources.
The document provides details of an assignment for an ECO 550 course. Students are asked to assume the role of a managing consultant advising a fictional company. The company produces 6,000 units per month at a cost of $70 per worker per day, plus $2,000 in other daily variable costs. It has high fixed costs. Students must analyze the company's financial performance and environmental factors to recommend whether it should continue or discontinue operations, showing calculations. They must also propose improvements and the conditions for discontinuing operations.
The document provides details of an assignment for an ECO 550 course. Students are asked to assume the role of a managing consultant advising a fictional company. The company produces 6,000 units per month at a cost of $70 per worker per day, plus $2,000 in other daily variable costs. It has high fixed costs. Students must analyze the company's financial performance and environmental factors to recommend whether it should continue or discontinue operations, showing calculations. They must also propose improvements and the circumstances for discontinuing operations.
This document provides a quiz with 30 multiple choice questions related to economics topics like insurance, risk, asymmetric information, and organizational forms. The questions cover concepts such as moral hazard, adverse selection, principal-agent problems, and different business structures involving ownership, management, and liability.
This document provides a quiz with 30 multiple choice questions related to economics topics like insurance, risk, asymmetric information, and organizational forms. The questions cover concepts such as moral hazard, adverse selection, signaling, warranties, and principal-agent relationships in insurance markets. Other questions address asset risk correlation, opportunism in corporations, institutional investors, and ways for corporations to raise initial capital like public stock offerings.
Task 14.2 Divide into small groups of five to seven persons. Se.docxjosies1
*Task 1
4.2 Divide into small groups of five to seven persons. Select a group discussion leader and a person to record responses. Use the brainstorming guidelines to conduct a five-minute brainstorming session on the following topic. Your goal is to identify creative solutions to the problem: Employees in large companies often complain that personal worth perception is low. They feel that the company does not overtly reward them for their contributions and set procedures that allow them to be most productive and creative.
* Based on the problem given in 4.2, complete the following tasks:
a. Brainstorm how the company can reward efforts and increase the perception of personal worth other than issuing pay increases.
b. Use nominal group technique to find the best solution to the employee personal-worth perception problem. Consider the solutions from the brainstorming activity and select the "best" solution from that set.
c. Use consensus decision making with the goal of selecting a solution to the employee personalworth perception problem to which all members of the group can commit
*Task 2
5.1 Develop a set of general frames to codify the following:
• A horse
• A student
• An airline pilot
Use these frames and describe the following:
• Flashdance, an 18-hand thoroughbred
• Brenda, a medium-height, fourth-year liberal arts students
• Fred, a 30-year veteran airline captain
*Task 3
5.2 Someone suggested two types of potential knowledge developers: “Send me a well-developed computer programmer or a programmer competent in several languages, and we’ll make him or her into a successful knowledge developer.”
and
“Send me a talented generalist with well-developed interpersonal skills or somewhat more delicately, ‘a user friendly person’ and a rigorously analytical mind, and we’ll team him or her with a competent knowledge developer.”
In your opinion, which approach would be more successful in knowledge development? Why?
*Task 4
Task 1: Implementation of Knowledge Management
7.1 Give your views on failure of implementation of knowledge management at a global company based on five distinct stages of knowledge management:
Stage 1: Advocate and learn Stage
2: Develop strategy Stage
3: Design and launch KM initiatives Stage
4: Expand and support initiatives Stage
5: Institutionalize knowledge management
Case study: A global company (Source: Chua, A. and Lam, W., “Why KM projects fail: a multi-case analysis”, Journal of Knowledge Management, vol. 9, no. 3 (2005).)
A global company, which was one of the top ten organizations in its industry, lost a number of deals because of its inability to offer integrated solutions in the order handling line of business. In response, the management commissioned a KM project known as Alpha with the objective to create a “blueprint for gaining and maintaining global order handling services market leadership”. Underpinning Alpha was a comprehensive attempt to manage the knowledge across the company.
W.
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Figure 2: The Supply Chain Performance Management Cycle
1) Flextronics was facing pressure from OEMs to reduce costs while also dealing with slowing industry orders. Their disparate systems led to purchasing compliance issues where they did not always source at the lowest prices.
2) Traditional supply chain management focused on functions rather than the whole system, and reactive problem-solving rather than prevention. Effective management requires a holistic and proactive approach.
3) Common pitfalls include focusing on parts over the whole, serial changes that confuse stakeholders, and failing to adapt to changes. Adaptive organizations like GE focus
This document provides an overview of environmental factors that influence organizations and how organizations can influence their environments. It discusses the macro environment and competitive environment that organizations operate within. Key aspects of the macro environment covered include the economy, technology, demographics, social/natural environment issues, and regulations/laws. The competitive environment includes competitors, new entrants, substitutes/complements, suppliers, and customers. The document also explores how organizations analyze and respond to their environments through environmental scanning, benchmarking, and various strategies to adapt to or influence their external surroundings. Finally, it discusses the role of organizational culture and how culture can impact an organization's response to its environment.
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Question 1
1. The following is an organization chart depicting a single row of individuals A, B, and C.
Figure 13-1
Identify the statement which is true of the organization depicted in this figure? Answer
There is a strong linkage between the individuals represented in the chart.
It is a sole proprietorship firm.
The above organization chart depicts a U-form firm.
Team production is unimportant in this organization.
Question 2
1. In which of the following cases will centralization of decision making be appropriate?
When different departments in an organization function separately without much interrelation.
When information necessary for the decision making process originates from a variety of
sources.
When the organization expands in size and its activities become more complex.
When all the information comes from an external source.
Question 3
1. Refer to Figure 13-2. Identify the structure of Z Corp.
The following is the organization chart of Z Corp.
Figure 13-2
U-form
M-form
2. Mixed organization
Matrix organization
Question 4
1. When each box in an organization chart contains individuals who specialize in some field,
then the activities in the organization are categorized by _____.
divisionalization
functionalization
decentralization
de-integration
Question 5
1. One of the disadvantages of an organization which has a matrix structure is that:
each individual reports to one boss, causing excess flow of information to one individual.
flow of information is difficult when operations are so highly diversified.
each individual has two bosses whose interests may not be aligned.
there are limits to the information a firm’s headquarters can use effectively in making decisions.
Question 6
1. Which of the following was a consequence of the financial revolution which drastically
changed risk management in the 1970s?
Managements created separate categories for handling different types of risks.
A group of specialists were created who handled risk assessment for the entire organization and
reported only to headquarters.
Risk analysis was decentralized by concentrating on risks at the division-level.
It became easier to assess market risk with the introduction of various new tools of financial
management.
Question 7
3. 1. The late business historian Alfred Chandler blamed Britain’s competitive difficulties in the
early twentieth century on:
the structure of the firms.
the removal of trade barriers.
the lack of innovation.
inefficient transfer of information within firms.
Question 8
1. Orders can lose accuracy:
if they are too complicated.
as they are transmitted within the organization.
in organizations where decision-making is decentralized.
unless they are given to the right recipient.
Question 9
1. Joanne can choose to selectively disclose information to her superiors in an attempt to elicit
decisions in her favor if:
the information is easily available to all.
she is the only source of the information concerned.
the information is easily verifiable.
there are other sources of the same information in the firm.
Question 10
1. The information to be gathered for a decision depends on which of the following?
The current market conditions and on the expected costs and benefits of acquiring the
information.
The model that underlies a decision and on the expected costs and benefits of acquiring the
information.
4. The cost of the information and the current market conditions.
The model that underlies a decision and the amount of information that is internally available.
Question 11
1. Categorization of activities in an organization along product or geographic lines is called:
globalization.
decentralization.
functionalization.
divisionalization.
Question 12
1. Axis Group has a publishing house, operates in the sports gear market, and owns a coffee
plantation. A board of directors is responsible for the overall performance of the group. Identify
the correct statement from the following.
The board will be responsible for all decision-making process.
The board will be in the best position to solve even a minor problem at the coffee plantation.
The sports gear firm’s risk assessment team will also be responsible for assessing market risk for
the group’s other functional areas.
Decisions for the publishing house are likely to be taken by the individuals who head it, rather
than the board of directors heading the entire group.
Question 13
1. _____ is the only type of firm where it is possible for a person to hold all of the information
that matters for all types of decisions.
Corporation
A firm where decision-making is centralized
Sole proprietorship
A firm where there is separation of ownership and management
Question 14
5. 1. General Motors was able to gain advantage over Ford in the 1920s primarily because:
the latter failed to adapt its product policy and organization structure to meet the demands of the
changing market.
the former had always been an M-form and better managed organization.
the latter charged higher prices for its cars than General Motors.
the former was vertically integrated with better control over its input production than Ford.
Question 15
1. The method of payment that a principal can use to elicit effort from an agent is called:
a contract.
an order.
an incentive.
garbling.
Question 16
2. _____, uncertainty, and risk of opportunism are the three major reasons due to which U.S.
Steel prefers to own its mines, enrichment facilities, and ore carriers.
Involuntary transactions
Transaction costs
Nonspecificity of assets
Trademark and credibility
Question 17
2. If there is a low degree of uncertainty combined with a low degree of asset specificity, _____
will be efficient.
long-term contracts
short-term contracts
market transactions
6. vertical integration
Question 18
2. Which of the following exemplifies an opportunistic behavior by a franchisor arising out of
incompleteness or ambiguity in a contract?
Providing inferior service in an attempt to cut operating costs.
Terminating a well-operated franchisee and converting the establishment into a profitable
company-owned outlet.
Fixing exorbitant prices for products having relatively elastic demand.
Terminating a franchisee who had been using the company brand name to endorse products that
the agreement says it cannot.
Question 19
2. Firms generally prefer not to outsource product design and manufacturing because:
these activities are common and standardized.
these operations are more or less static.
these operations involve a low investment.
these operations require investment in highly specific assets.
Question 20
2. _____ increases with the variability of outcomes and the underlying degree of randomness in
the environment that can affect a business relationship.
The problem of double marginalization
Asset specificity
Uncertainty
Volumetric interdependence
Question 21
2. The invention of the Bessemer converter in 1856:
7. increased the cost of continuous and coordinated operations of a steel industry.
motivated downstream integration of the steel industry into coal mining.
increased the efficient scale of steel production.
increased volumetric interdependence between different stages of steel production.
Question 22
2. _____ improves exchangeability, and reduces the cost of obtaining information about a good
and about the parties involved in the transaction.
De-integration
Outsourcing
Vertical integration
Standardization
Question 23
2. During the peak season, when demand for pipeline transport of natural gas at the maximum
legally allowable price exceeds the available capacity:
buy-sell transactions take place.
pipeline owners vertically integrate into gas production.
price discrimination becomes prominent.
pipeline owners use discretionary powers to ration capacity to shippers.
Question 24
2. Which of the following is an advantage of mini-mills over vertically integrated giant mills?
The small size of mini-mills ensures economies of scale in steel production.
The small furnaces used in mini-mills depend less on coal and more on electricity.
The mini-mills do not require integration of casting and milling activities.
The small furnaces used by mini-mills can be operated as per the producer’s will.
8. Question 25
2. Identify the reason why U.S. Steel prefers to own iron ore mines.
It helps them to coordinate iron ore transport and furnace operations.
It reduces the company’s raw material costs.
It helps them to inspect the quality of the ore.
It reduces the competition the company faces in the world steel market.
Question 26
2. Which of the following transactions can be categorized as outsourcing?
A U.S. furniture manufacturer buying a lumber facility.
A U.S. firm transferring some of its operations to its new subsidiary in India.
Nike selling its sportswear to customers through its franchisees across the world.
A U.S. cosmetics firm using an advertising agency to market its products.
Question 27
2. In order to lessen the monitoring problems and opportunistic behavior of a franchisor and a
franchisee, franchise contracts:
create provisions for high liquidated damages.
are complete in all respect.
have similar fixed charge and royalty arrangements.
include certain flexible clauses.
Question 28
2. The arrival of inexpensive information technology, such as personal computers and
inexpensive telecommunications:
discouraged de-integration.
increased the optimal size of firms.
9. shifted the long-run average cost (LRAC) curve of firms downward.
shifted the marginal cost of firms upward.
Question 29
2. Although U.S. Steel is integrated into iron ore mining, it currently does not own any of the
mines that supply its coking coal because:
the company has a high requirement of coking coal which cannot be supplied by a single mine.
the coal prices are highly unpredictable and volatile.
there are a limited number of coal suppliers.
futures and options markets are available for coal.
Question 30
2. Which of the following exemplifies a vertical restraint imposed by a franchisor in a contract?
A clause prohibiting a franchisee from using the company trademark to support a political
candidate.
A clause prohibiting a franchisee from announcing special offers during Christmas to attract
customers.
A clause prohibiting a franchisee from bundling two products of the same company.
A clause stating the target sales to be achieved by the company during an accounting year.