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Entrepreneurship #4
Chapters 13,14,15
Term | Definition |
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penetration strategy | a strategy to grow by encouraging existing customers to buy more of the firm's current products |
market development strategy | strategy to grow by selling the firm's existing products to new groups of customers |
product development strategy | a strategy to grow by developing and selling new products to people who are already purchasing the firm's existing products |
diversification strategy | a strategy to grow by selling a new product to a new market |
backward integration | a step back (up) in the value-added chain toward the raw materials |
forward integration | a step forward (down) on the value-added chain toward the customers |
horizontal integration | occurs at the same level of the value-added chain but simply involves a different, but complementary, value-added chain |
participative style of management | the manager involves others in the decision-making process |
time management | the process of improving an individual's productivity through more efficient use of time |
principle of desire | a recognition of the need to change personal attitudes and habits regarding the allocation of time |
principle of effectiveness | a focus on the most important issues |
principle of analysis | understanding how time is currently being allocated, and where it is being inefficiently invested |
principle of teamwork | acknowledgement that only a small amount of time is actually under one's control and that most of one's time is taken up by others |
principle of prioritized planning | categorization of tasks by their degree of importance and then the allocation of time to tasks based on this categorization |
principle of reanalysis | periodic review of one's time management process |
joint venture | two or more companies forming a new company |
acquisition | purchasing all or part of a company |
brokers | people who sell companies |
merger | joining two or more companies |
leveraged buyout (LBO) | purchasing an existing venture by any employee group |
franchising | an arrangement whereby a franchisor gives exclusive rights of local distribution to a franchise in return for payment of royalties and conformance to standardized operating procedures |
franchisor | the person offering the franchise |
franchisee | the person who purchases the franchise |
distribution task | negotiating how the benefits of the relationship will be allocated between the parties |
integration task | exploring possible mutual benefits from the relationship so that the "size of the pie" can be increased |
reservation price | the price (the bundle of resources from the agreement) at which the entrepreneur is indifferent about whether to accept the agreement or choose the alternative |
bargaining zone | the range of outcomes between the entrepreneur's reservation price and the reservation price of the other party |
employee stock option plan (ESOP) | a two-to-three-year plan to sell the business to employees |
Chapter 11 bankruptcy | provides the opportunity to reorganize and make the venture more solvent |
Chapter 13 bankruptcy | voluntarily allows individuals with regular income the opportunity to make extended time payments |
Chapter 7 bankruptcy | requires the venture to liquidate, either voluntarily or involuntarily |
voluntary bankruptcy | entrepreneur's decision to file for bankruptcy |
involuntary bankruptcy | petition of bankruptcy filed by creditors without consent of entrepreneur |