Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Final Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the foundational principles and practical applications of entrepreneurship and innovation in contemporary business environments. Students will examine key concepts such as opportunity recognition, business model development, and strategies for launching and sustaining new ventures. Through case studies, interactive discussions, and project-based learning, participants will analyze real-world examples of innovative startups and entrepreneurial leaders. The course also covers essential topics like funding, market analysis, intellectual property, and scalability, equipping students with the knowledge and skills necessary to transform creative ideas into viable business opportunities.
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Strategic Management in Action 6th Edition by Mary
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A. Coulter
Chapter 1: Introducing the Concepts
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Q1) An important issue affecting strategic management in today's world is
A) globalization.
B) corporate governance.
C) e-business.
D) All of the answer choices are correct.
E) None of the answer choices is correct.
Answer: D
Q2) How has the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 reformed corporate governance?
Answer: Two areas in which corporate reform was mandated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 are the role of boards of directors and financial reporting. "Quid pro quo" arrangements, where board members "took care" of the CEO and the CEO "took care" of the board members changed with the passage of the Act. Demands on board members of publicly traded companies increased considerably. The Act also called for more disclosure and transparency of financial information. Senior managers are now required to certify their company's financial results.
Q3) The CEO's typical role is that of the chief strategist.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Context of Managing Strategically
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the competitive advantage perspective that looks at the impact of external factors?
A) Resource-based view
B) Guerilla view
C) Industrial organization view
D) All of the answer choices are correct.
E) None of the answer choices is correct.
Answer: C
Q2) The resource-based view focuses on the structural forces within an industry, the firm's competitive environment, and how these influence competitive advantage.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Globalization is one of the driving forces in the twenty-first century business environment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Assessing Opportunities and Threats: Doing an External Analysis
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Q1) Compare the general versus the specific environment.
Answer: The general environment includes technological, economic, political-legal, demographic, and sociocultural factors. The specific environment focuses on substitute products, current rivalry, potential entrants, bargaining power of buyers, and bargaining power of suppliers.
Q2) When consumers consider whether they have the ability and resources themselves to manufacture the products they are purchasing from the industry, this issue refers to the ________ of the Porter five forces model.
A) bargaining power of buyers
B) threat of potential entrants
C) threat of substitute products
D) bargaining power of suppliers
E) None of the answer choices are correct.
Answer: A
Q3) Opportunities are positive external environmental trends or changes that may help the organization improve its performance.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses: Doing an Internal Analysis
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Q1) Which of the following is one of the basic organizational functions managers should examine during an internal audit?
A) Production-operations
B) Marketing
C) Financial-accounting
D) Information systems
E) All of the answer choices are correct
Q2) An external audit is a thorough assessment of an organization's various internal functional areas.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the value chain analysis, the process connected to the acquisition and utilization of resources is known as
A) managing human resources.
B) technological development.
C) firm infrastructure.
D) purchasing.
E) None of the answer choices is correct.
Q4) Explain the characteristics of distinctive organizational capabilities.
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Chapter 5: Functional and Competitive Strategies
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of high-performance work practices?
A) Fixed job assignments
B) Centralized decision making
C) Self-managed work teams
D) Limited employee involvement
E) None of the answer choices is correct.
Q2) An organization's competitive advantage cannot be eroded easily by competitors' actions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a possible dimension for identifying strategic groups?
A) Units sold
B) Price
C) Quality
D) Geographic scope
Q4) An organization's functional strategies are the goal-directed plans and actions of the organization's functional areas.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Corporate Strategies
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Q1) Both the product-market evolution and McKinsey matrices have the disadvantage of A) simplicity.
B) complexity.
C) individuality.
D) subjectivity.
E) None of the answer choices is correct.
Q2) Corporate strategies are concerned with the broad and long-term questions of what business(es)the organization is in or wants to be in and what it wants to do with those businesses.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A business unit with low relative market share and low industry growth rate is referred to as a
A) dog.
B) cash cow.
C) cat.
D) question mark.
E) star.
Q4) What are the costs of vertical integration?
Q5) What are some recommendations for handling downsizing strategies?
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Chapter 7: International Strategies
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Q1) When Walmart Stores "thinks locally to act globally," it is most likely approaching the global market as a
A) global company.
B) transnational organization.
C) borderless organization.
D) multidomestic corporation.
E) None of the answer choices is correct.
Q2) What are the important potential advantages of being international?
Q3) The global approach to strategy is designed to help develop a (n)________ advantage.
A) low-cost
B) differentiation
C) integrated
D) niche
E) None of the above
Q4) The legal-political environment in the United States is stable.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How does the multicountry approach differ from the global approach?
Q6) What is parochialism?
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Chapter 8: Module Special Topics in Strategy
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Q1) Public sector organizations are most affected by ________ constraints.
A) internal
B) external
C) efficiency
D) managerial
E) None of the answer choices is correct.
Q2) A not-for-profit organization must meet the requirements of ________ of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service tax code.
A) Section 501(c)(3)
B) Section 301(d)(4)
C) Section 503(c)(4)
D) Section 401(c)(3)
E) Section 403(d)(4)
Q3) Entrepreneurial ventures and small businesses are not the same.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In almost every study, strategy research has shown positive linkages between planning and business performance.
A)True
B)False
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