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Business Administration is a comprehensive course that introduces students to the fundamental principles and practices essential to successfully managing and operating organizations. Covering core topics such as management, marketing, finance, human resources, and organizational behavior, this course equips learners with the analytical, decision-making, and leadership skills necessary for problem-solving in diverse business environments. Emphasis is placed on real-world applications, ethical considerations, and the adaptation to global and technological trends, preparing students for a wide range of careers in business and entrepreneurship.
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Marketing 2016 18th Edition by William M. Pride O. C. Ferrell
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Chapter 1: An Overview of Strategic Marketing
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Q1) Why is marketing important to businesses and to the economy?
Answer: Businesses must engage in marketing to survive and grow, and marketing activities are needed to reach customers and provide products. Financial resources generated from sales are necessary for the operations of a firm and to provide financial returns to investors. Innovation in operations and products drive business success and customer loyalty. Marketing activities help to produce the profits that are essential to the survival of individual businesses. Without profits, businesses would find it difficult, if not impossible, to buy more raw materials, hire more employees, attract more capital, and create additional products that, in turn, make more profits. Therefore, marketing helps create a successful economy and contributes to the well-being of society.
Q2) The market concept developed out of a sequence of three eras: the production orientation, the marketing orientation, and the industrial orientation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Marketing Strategies
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Q1) Managers at the Longshore Corporation are engaged in a complex process of revising their organization's mission and goals and developing corporate strategy, marketing objectives, marketing strategy, and, eventually, a marketing plan. This process is called
A)marketing planning.
B)strategic planning.
C)marketing strategy.
D)corporate strategy.
E)strategic business planning.
Answer: B
Q2) Starbucks provides training and support to its employees, including health care benefits. Through these ____ efforts Starbucks is better able to deliver quality products and service to its customers.
A)internal management
B)extended marketing
C)intended marketing
D)external marketing
E)internal marketing
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: The Marketing Environment
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Q1) Technology is the application of knowledge and tools to solve problems and perform tasks more efficiently.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) In general, which of the following competitive structures is an organization least likely to operate?
A)Monopoly
B)Monopolistic competition
C)Oligopoly
D)Elastic competition
E)Pure competition
Answer: E
Q3) The three major components of sociocultural forces are demographic and diversity characteristics, cultural values, and consumerism.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Social Responsibility and Ethics in Marketing
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Q1) Marketers' contributions of resources to community causes such as education, recreation, and others illustrate social responsibility on a community-relations level.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the text, which of the following is not one of the factors that influence the ethical decision-making processes in a marketing organization?
A)Organizational culture
B)Attitudes toward religion
C)Opportunity
D)Individual factors
E)Organizational pressure
Q3) ____ are formalized rules and standards that describe what a company expects of its employees in terms of ethical behavior.
A)Job descriptions
B)Ethics clauses
C)Behavior contracts
D)Codes of conduct
E)Ethics contracts
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Chapter 5: Marketing Research and Information Systems
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Q1) Stratified sampling may reduce some of the error that could occur in a simple random sample.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The use of marketing research is
A)limited strictly to large corporations.
B)limited to for-profit businesses of all sizes.
C)controlled by the federal government.
D)widespread throughout business and nonprofit organizations.
E)carefully monitored by each state's trade agencies.
Q3) Refer to Scenario 5.2. Besides administering the questionnaire, Colin observed people who went kayaking and canoeing on the Chatsworth River, making notes about their appearance and behavior. The type of data he collected are ____ data.
A)indirect
B)mechanical
C)secondary
D)primary
E)direct
Q4) Why would a personal interview be favored over a mail or telephone survey?
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Chapter 6: Target Markets Segmentation and Evaluation
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Q1) Mia is pet-sitting for a friend's dog while he is on vacation. Her friend has given Mia all sorts of information, including the veterinarian's name and phone number, pet emergency center location, and the dog's favorite bedtime snack. The first evening of the vacation, Mia realizes that her friend did not bring the dog's food over, and she has no idea what the dog eats. Her friend's cell phone is "out of range" at the moment, so Mia must go to the grocery store and shop for dog food, even though she has never bought it before now. In this case, even though Mia is not a dog owner, she is likely to be part of the market for dog food for all of the following reasons except _______.
A)she has the authority to purchase the dog food.
B)she possesses the buying power for purchasing dog food.
C)she has the need or desire for dog food.
D)her ability to purchase the dog food is questionable.
E)she is willing to use her buying power.
Q2) The undifferentiated strategy can be effective for an organization that has a homogeneous market and can develop and maintain a single marketing mix.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How do business markets differ from consumer markets?
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Chapter 7: Consumer Buying Behavior
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Q1) After certain inputs have been selected to reach an individual's awareness, the next step in the perceptual process is perceptual
A)organization.
B)attention.
C)retention.
D)interpretation.
E)redefinition.
Q2) Income is the key factor in determining a person's social class.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The time that a buyer has to make a purchase decision is a situational influence. A)True
B)False
Q4) Patronage motives influence where one purchases products on a regular basis. A)True B)False
Q5) Compare and contrast the three major ethnic subcultures in the United States.
Q6) Discuss how reference groups and opinion leaders influence purchase behavior.
Q7) In what ways does an individual's personality affect his or her buying behavior?
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Chapter 8: Business Markets and Buying Behavior
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Q1) Which one of the following countries will not be included in the data presented in the new industry classification system that is replacing the SIC?
A)Mexico
B)Canada
C)United States
D)Japan
E)All but one NAFTA country
Q2) The fourth stage in the business buying decision process is that of searching for products and suppliers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The second stage in the business buying decision process is to
A)search for products and suppliers.
B)select the most appropriate product.
C)develop product specifications.
D)evaluate product and supplier performance.
E)recognize the problem.
Q4) Compare and contrast the three major types of purchases made by business customers.
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Chapter 9: Reaching Global Markets
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Q1) Which of the following lists the levels of involvement in global marketing from the lowest to the highest?
A)Regional marketing, multinational marketing, limited exporting, domestic marketing, globalized marketing
B)Limited exporting, domestic marketing, globalized marketing, multinational marketing, regional marketing
C)Globalized marketing, multinational marketing, regional marketing, limited exporting, domestic marketing
D)Domestic marketing, globalized marketing, regional marketing, multinational marketing, limited exporting
E)Domestic marketing, limited exporting, multinational marketing, regional marketing, globalized marketing
Q2) A positive balance of trade is considered good because it means that U.S. dollars are supporting foreign economies at the expense of U.S. companies and workers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In what ways can a nation restrict the flow of imported goods?
Q4) Describe the sociocultural forces that affect international marketing strategy.
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Chapter 10: Digital Marketing and Social Networking
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Q1) Electronic media that function using digital codes are called
A)digital marketing.
B)digital media.
C)electronic marketing.
D)digital electronics.
E)e-marketing.
Q2) It is not unusual for Joiners to be members of several social networking sites at once.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Addressability allows customers to respond to a company's marketing communications by expressing their reactions and desires directly to the company.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Traditional marketing media are more consumer-driven than digital media.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Addressability represents the ultimate expression of the marketing concept. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Product Concepts, Branding and Packaging
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Q1) The spray bottle for Windex Glass Cleaner could be considered a secondary-use package because
A)its shape is ideal for multiple-unit packaging.
B)glass cleaner works on chrome as well as glass.
C)the spray nozzle has an adjustable valve.
D)customers can reuse it for other purposes.
E)it has a shape similar to other glass cleaner bottles.
Q2) Packaging is most important, as a strategic tool, for A)consumer convenience products.
B)consumer shopping products.
C)industrial products.
D)consumer specialty products.
E)services.
Q3) When a product tries to capitalize on the brand equity of two separate brands, marketers are using A)licensing.
B)dual-branding.
C)partnerships.
D)brand extension.
E)co-branding.
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Chapter 12: Developing and Managing Products
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Q1) Functional modifications usually require that the product be redesigned.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A group of managers has been assigned the task of developing a new product. They are now in the process of assessing several ideas to determine whether they are consistent with the firm's overall objectives and resources. The managers are at what stage of the new-product development process?
A)Business analysis
B)Product testing
C)Idea generation
D)Commercialization
E)Screening
Q3) If Pedigree offered you a position in which you would have total marketing responsibility for all of its canned dog food, this position would probably hold the title of ____ manager.
A)brand
B)area
C)product
D)sales
E)marketing
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Chapter 13: Services Marketing
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Q1) Flo, the spokesperson in Progressive Insurance TV commercials, is used to symbolize friendliness, reliability, and knowledge of the company's products. The part Flo plays in the promotion is designed to address the ____ characteristic of services.
A)intangibility
B)perishability
C)heterogeneity
D)inseparability
E)customer service
Q2) The ability to customize services to match the specific needs of individual customers is an advantage to service marketers and may lead to standardized packages.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Nonprofit organizations deal with ideas and services more often than with goods. A)True
B)False
Q4) The U.S. economy is the world's first service economy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Marketing Channels and Supply-Chain Management
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Q1) A producer that sells similar products through different channels under different brand names is engaging in dual distribution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The end result of eliminating marketing intermediaries is a cost benefit.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What function of physical distribution enables companies to compensate for dissimilar production and consumption rates and stabilize prices and availability of seasonal items?
A)Materials handling
B)Warehousing
C)Transportation
D)Inventory management
E)Order processing
Q4) How do marketing channel decisions influence the rest of the marketing mix?
Q5) Channel conflict is necessary to facilitate efficient performance within the channel.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Retailing, Direct Marketing and Wholesaling
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Q1) Andrea owns and operates a small novelty store that sells home décor, gifts, jewelry, and gourmet snacks. Because her business is very small, many wholesalers will not deal with her, so she relies primarily on ____ for the survival of her business.
A)drop shippers
B)truck wholesalers
C)rack jobbers
D)specialty-line wholesalers
E)cash-and-carry wholesalers
Q2) Truck wholesalers are usually classified as limited-service wholesalers because they offer a limited line of products.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Compare the services wholesalers provide for producers with the services they provide to retailers.
Q4) By buying in large quantities and delivering to customers in smaller lots, a wholesaler may perform physical distribution activities more efficiently than a producer.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Integrated Marketing Communications
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Q1) Refer to Scenario 16.2. The makers of Whizz have decided to go to several different colleges and have a contest for the dirtiest shirt. While at the colleges, they will set up several washing machines near the campus bookstore, demonstrating the power of Whizz to get these dirty shirts clean. Each contestant in the dirtiest shirt contest will receive a coupon for a free bottle of Whizz. The winner of the contest will receive a $50 gift card for the college bookstore. This method of promotion is an example of ____, and is used to stimulate ____ demand.
A)viral advertising; primary
B)sales promotion; selective
C)sales promotion; primary
D)product placement; selective
E)product placement; primary
Q2) Promotion tends to
A)create needs.
B)capitalize on existing needs.
C)be overly focused on the self-actualization needs.
D)overemphasize physiological and safety needs.
E)avoid focusing on people's needs.
Q3) Discuss the major factors that affect the selection of promotion mix elements.
Q4) Explain the communication process.
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Chapter 17: Advertising and Public Relations
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Q1) When using the percentage-of-sales approach for determining the advertising appropriation, marketers
A)base their funding on a percentage of the competitors' sales.
B)multiply the firm's past sales by a set percentage they want to spend.
C)set sales objectives for the upcoming period and base appropriations on these goals.
D)multiply the firm's past sales plus a factor for expected changes in sales times a standard percentage.
E)use an industry standard to determine what percentage of their profits they want to allocate to advertising.
Q2) An advertising campaign is typically developed by an individual or a few persons within the firm, an advertising department within the organization, or
A)an advertising agency.
B)a group of media specialists.
C)a group of multiskilled managers.
D)a "special projects" group.
E)freelance advertising consultants.
Q3) What is an advertising platform? What is the best way to develop a platform?
Q4) Describe the major types of advertising, and discuss how they differ.
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Chapter 18: Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
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Q1) Sayyid's company has launched a new product line, and he is put in charge of sales. He decides his first step will be to find potential customers in the company's sales records. Sayyid is
A)prospecting.
B)screening.
C)researching.
D)pre-approaching.
E)surveying.
Q2) The ____ stage of the personal selling process is when the salesperson asks the prospect to buy the product.
A)proposal
B)closing
C)overcoming objections
D)approach
E)trial
Q3) Developing a list of potential customers is called prospecting.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Identify and describe several ways to motivate sales personnel.
Q5) Discuss the major factors to consider when designing sales territories.
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Chapter 19: Pricing Concepts
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Q1) Ryan orders 16 dozen fishing lures from Strike Right for $375. When he gets the invoice, he is furious that $25 in freight charges has been tacked onto his bill because he thought the price included freight costs. Ryan should have been certain that the order terms were
A)F.O.B. origin.
B)F.O.B. factory.
C)C.O.D.
D)2/10, n/30.
E)F.O.B. destination.
Q2) A graph of the quantity of products marketers expect to sell at various prices if other factors remain constant is a
A)price graph.
B)supply curve.
C)price/quantity graph.
D)marginal revenue curve.
E)demand curve.
Q3) Identify and describe the major types of discounts used for business markets. Then explain the reasons for using each type.
Q4) Explain what is meant by price elasticity of demand.
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Chapter 20: Setting Prices
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Q1) If local Shell gasoline stations look at BP stations' prices as the primary method of determining its own prices, Shell is using ________
A)price fixing; which considers competition to be less important than costs.
B)price fixing; which considers costs to be less important than competitor's prices.
C)market share pricing; which considers competition to be the ultimate pricing goal.
D)competition-based pricing, which considers profit to be the ultimate pricing goal.
E)competition-based pricing, which considers costs to be less important than competitor's prices.
Q2) When a seller's costs are usually determined during or after a product is made and then a specified percentage or dollar amount is added to the cost to establish a price, an organization is using ____ pricing.
A)markup
B)demand-based
C)differential
D)cost-plus
E)expensed-based
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