Answer:
1. By consulting the people who have purchased shoes and groceries recently, calling them or checking out their website for these information.
2. I would not be willing to travel far based on losses I might incur.
3. I would not save any money.
Explanation:
How would you find out where the shoes and groceries are?
Marketing Intermediaries help in effective delivery of products and services from the end of producers to the other end of consumers.
Since the marketing intermediaries have been eliminated, I would have to find out where the products groceries and shoes are manufactured or where the nearest wholesaler is. I can either inquire from friends and from people who have purchased shoes recently, call the company or check out their website for these information and also inquire from farmers in my area for groceries. It is highly likely that the manufacturers of shoes and groceries are far from where I live.
How far would you have to travel to get them?
Depending, on the distance of manufacturers and farmers to where I live but at the end of the day it will cost me more on time and gas going from one manufacturer and/or farmer to the other. I will end up not going that far to get them.
How much money do you think you'd save for your time and effort?
I would not save but lose money for my time and effort. The money that the marketing intermediaries would have helped me saved is what I would have spent in the search of manufacturers and farmers.
Answer:
C. forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning
Explanation:
Forming stage covers period of orientation.
storming involves the most difficult stage in which individual ambition comes to the fore.
norming : sense of cohesion and unity emerge
performing : team focuses on performance.
adjourning : It involves documentation of operation.
Answer:
a. VRIN test, which asks if a resource is valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutable.
Explanation:
Applying Barney's (1991) VRIN framework can determine if a resource is a source of competitive power. To serve as a basis for sustainable competitive advantage, resources must be:
valuable: meaning that they must be a source of greater value, in terms of relative costs and benefits, than similar resources in competing firms. When resources are able to bring value to the firm they can be a source of competitive power.
rare: rareness implies that the resource must be rare in the sense that it is scarce relative to demand for its use or what it produces. Resources have to deliver a unique strategy to provide a competitive advantage to the firm as compared to the competing firms. Consider the case where a resource is valuable but it exists in the competitor firms as well. Such a resource is not rare to provide competitive power.
inimitable: it is difficult to imitate. Resources can be sources of sustained competitive power if competing firms cannot obtain them. Consider the case where a resource is valuable and rare but the competing organizations can copy them easily. Such resources also cannot be sources of competitive power.
non-substitutable: other different types of resources cannot be functional substitutes. Resources should not be able to be replaced by any other strategically equivalent valuable resources. If two resources can be utilized separately to implement the same strategy then they are strategically equivalent. Such resources are substitutable and so are not sources of sustained competitive power.
The criteria of the VRIN Framework clearly rules out best practices as a source of competitive advantage. If other firms can easily understand and copy a capability, it is not a source of competitive power.
Answer:
a commercial bank
Explanation:
A commercial bank is a deposit accepting institutions regulated by the central bank of a country. The banks play a crucial role in availing capital to businesses. They accept deposits in the form of savings from customers. They keep a small fraction(reserves) in their custody to cater for withdrawal and loan out the rest. Banks, therefore, pool resources together for businesses and households to borrow.
Since banks have a wide customer base, they are able to mobilize huge amounts of resources to loan out. Commercial banks are the best institution to issue a loan to Glenn and Maggie. Saving and loan, credit unions have a limited membership and may not have sufficient resources to issue a loan to Glenn and Maggie.
