What is an inspirational statement of an organization's enduring purpose?
Vision
100
What is a company with a large share of a fast growing market?
Star
100
What is the successful implementation of creative ideas in organizations?
Organizational innovation
100
What is a corporation that owns businesses in two or more countires?
Multinational corporation
200
What is a gap between a desired state and an existing state?
Problem
200
What is the srategic actions taken after retrenchment to return to a growth strategy?
Recovery
200
What is work teams composed of people from different departments?
Multifunctional team
200
What is selling domestically produced products to customers in foreign countires?
Exporting
300
What is the standards used to guide judgments and decisions?
Decision criteria
300
What is a competitive move designed to reduce a rival's maket share or profits?
Attack
300
What is a cycle of repetition in which a company tests a prototype of a new product or service, improves on the design, and then builds and tests the improved prototype?
Design iteration
300
What is someone who lives and works outside of his or her native country?
Expatriate
400
What is a barrier to good decision making caused by pressure within the group for members to agree with each other?
Groupthink
400
What is the central companies in a strategic group?
Core firms
400
What is a philosophy and collection of planned change interventions designed to improve an organization's long term health and performance?
Organisational development
400
What is the relative costs of a standard set of goods and services in different countires?
Purchasing Power
500
What is choosing a "good enough" alternative?
Satisficing
500
What is purchase of a company by another company?
Acquisition
500
What is an approach to innovation that assumes that incremental innovation can be planned using a series of steps and that compressing those steps can speed motivation?
Compression approach to innovation
500
What is a strategic alliance in which two existing companies collaborate to form a third, independent company?