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Ch5: Marketing
Chapter 5: The Free Enterprise System
Question | Answer |
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a system that encourages individuals to start and operate their own businesses in a competitive system, without government involvment. | free enterprise system |
a government-issued exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invention for up to 20 yeras. | patent |
a brand name, brand mark, trade name,trade character, or combintion of these elements that is given legal protection by the federal government. | trademark |
the exclusive right to reproduce or sell a work authored by an individual, such as writings, music and artwork. | copyright |
the struggle to attract customers, keep existing ones, and take away customers from other companies | competition |
the sale price of a product | price competition |
competition based on factors that are not related to price, such as product quality, service and financing, business location, and reputation. | nonprice competition |
exclusive control over a product or the means of producing it | monopoly |
is the potential for loss or failure | business risk |
is the money earned from conducting business after all costs and expenses have been paid | profit |
is the amount of goods producers are willing to make and sell | supply |
consumer willingness and ability to buy produc | demand |
a business that sells its products only in its own country | domestic business |
sells its products in more than one country | global business |
a business seeks to make a profit from its operations | for-profit business |
functions like a business but uses the money it makes to fund the cause identified in its charter | nonprofit organization |
local, state, and federal government agencies and services | public sector |
businesses not associated with the government agencies | private sector |
consists of a group of establishments primarily engaged in producing or handling the same product or group of products or in rendering the same services | industry |
in the industrial market is based on the demand for consumer goods and services | derived demand |
obtain goods from manufacturers and resell them to industrial users, other wholesalers, and retailers | wholesalers |
buy goods from wholesalers or directly from manufacturers and resell them to the consumer | retailers |
the process of creating, expanding, manufacturing, or improving on goods and services | production |
the process of achieving company goals by effective use of resources through planning, organizing, and controlling | management |
the function of business that involves money management | finance |
the discipline that keeps track of a company's financial situation | accounting |