a. The self-driving vehicle industry is changing too much for the top-down approach to be effective.
b. The top-down approach can only be applied to specific business functions.
c. The top-down approach leaves other employees uncertain about their roles in the company.
d. The top-down approach is expensive to maintain, leaving the company at a competitive disadvantage.
Answer:
a. The self-driving vehicle industry is changing too much for the top-down approach to be effective.
Explanation:
The top-down approach is a model in which there is a hierarchical style and the decisions are made by the manager and then informed down the organizational chart and the lower levels have to accept the decisions. In this approach, people in the lower levels have low participation and influence on the decisions and as the firm's industry is changing too much, this people would posses crucial information and specialized knowledge that the top level might not have and because of that, this approach might not be effective. According to that, the answer is that this scenario is wrong because the self-driving vehicle industry is changing too much for the top-down approach to be effective.
The process of alliance management begins with selecting the most appropriate partner. Typically, alliance managers work in partnership with other companies to achieve what their company can not achieve alone. An alliance manager needs to know all the aspects of his company's business.
Answer:
all firms produce and sell a standardized or undifferentiated product
Explanation:
A perfectly competitive market is a market in which there are many companies that offer the same product, there are not entry barriers which makes it easy for an organization to enter or exit the market. Also, the companies are not able to influence the market and they are not able to control the conditions in it. According to this, the answer is that in a perfectly competitive market, all firms produce and sell a standardized or undifferentiated product.
Answer:
Explanation: Both the marginal cost curve and the average variable cost curve are U-shaped. For many firms, this is true because their production exhibits increasing returns at low levels of output and decreasing returns at high levels of output. At the minimum of average cost, the marginal cost curve intersects the average cost curve. This is because when marginal cost is above average cost, average cost is decreasing and when marginal cost is below average cost, average cost is decreasing.
Answer:
a. Whataburger is not using the optimal cost-minimizaing mix of cashier and kiosks.
b. Whataburger should hire more cashier and rent fewer kiosks in order to improve its mix of inputs and minimize the cost
Explanation:
a. According to the given data we have the following:
Let "C" is a cashier.
"K" is a kiosk
MPC = 48 (Marginal Product of Cashier)
MPK = 32 (Marginal Product of Kiosk)
PC = $15 (cashier can be hired for a wage of $15)
PK = $12 (Kiosk rents for $12)
At optimal cost minimization point, (MPC / MPK) = (PC / PK)
(MPC / PC) = (MPK / PK)
(MPC / PC) = (48 / 15) = 3.2
(MPK / PK) = (32 / 12) = 2.67
Since the (MPC / PC) and (MPK / PK) is not equal. It implies Whataburger is not using the optimal cost-minimizaing mix of cashier and kiosks.
b. We have to use the following:
(MPC / PC) > (MPK / PK)
i.e., 3.2 > 2.67
It means Whataburger hire more cashier and rent fewer kiosks in order to improve its mix of inputs and minimize the cost.
