How a competitor will respond to a competitive attack depends upon these three factors: ________ dependence, ________ resources, reputation of the ________ firm.

________produce fundamental changes that can transform a company or even revolutionize an industry, while ________enhance existing practices and often represent evolutionary applications of fundamental breakthroughs.

The four key attributes of strategic management include all of the following except

Some of the most common applications of real options are with property and insurance. A real estate option grants the holder the right to buy or sell a piece of property at an established price sometime in the future. If the price of the property goes ________, the owner of the option is likely to buy it. If the market value of the property ________ the strike price, the option holder is unlikely to execute the purchase.

It is anticipated that the worldwide shortage of highly skilled, college-educated workers will increase significantly by 2020, according to research by McKinsey Global Institute. Some companies are going as far as to redefine the jobs of their experts and are transferring some of their tasks to lower-skilled people inside and outside of their companies. By redefining these ________ knowledge jobs, they address ________ shortages and ________ costs while enhancing job satisfaction.

In the general environment, many relationships exist among the various elements. General environmental trends can have positive and negative impacts on various industries. For example, the aging population might have a ________ impact on the health care industry and a ________impact on the baby product industry. These are called ________ impacts.

During the introduction stage of the market life cycle ________ are unfamiliar to consumers; ________ are not well-defined.

Amazon is an example of a company that used the ________ strategy to enter the market. The ________features included ________ customer service.

Polaris, a manufacturer of snowmobiles, motorcycles, watercraft, and off-road vehicles, shares manufacturing operations across its businesses. It also has a corporate research and development facility and staff departments that support all the Polaris operating divisions. This is an example of creating value by using ________ diversification to acquire ________ of ________.

The board of directors is a group that has a ________ duty to ensure that the company is run consistently with ________ interests of the owners, or shareholders of a corporation and that acts as an ________ between the ________ and management.