__________________ is the monitoring, evaluation, and dissemination of information from the external and

internal environments to key people within the corporation.

__________________ includes physical resources, wildlife, and climate that are an inherent
part of existence on Earth.

__________________ is mankinds social system that includes general forces that do not directly
touch on the short-run activities of the organization that can, and often do, influence its
long-run decisions.
__________________ regulate the exchange of materials, money, energy, and information

__________________ generate problem-solving inventions.

__________________ allocate power and provide constraining and protecting laws and regulations.
__________________ that regulate the values, mores, and customs of society
__________________ includes those elements or groups that directly affect a corporation and, in turn, are
affected by it.

__________________ (popularized by Michael Porter) refers to an in-depth examination of key factors within
a corporations task environment.
__________________ the scanning of Sociocultural, Technological, Economic, Ecological, and Political-legal
environmental force
__________________ the key environmental trends that are judged to have both a medium to high
probability of occurrence and a medium to high probability of impact on the corporation.

__________________ willingness to reject unfamiliar as well as negative information

__________________ is a group of firms that produces a similar product or service, such as soft drinks or
financial services.

__________________ is an obstruction that makes it difficult for a company to enter an industry.

__________________ is a product that appears to be different but can satisfy the same need as another
product

__________________ is a company (e.g., Microsoft) or an industry whose product works well with a firms
(e.g., Intels) product and without which the product would lose much of its value.

__________________ where no firm has large market share, and each firm serves only a small piece of the
total market in competition with others (for example, cleaning services).

__________________ dominated by a few large firms, each of which struggles to differentiate its products
from those of the competition.

__________________ are specific to each country or group of countries

__________________ in contrast, operate worldwide, with MNCs making only small adjustments
for country-specific circumstances.

__________________ is a set of business units or firms that pursue similar strategies with similar
resources.

__________________ are companies with a limited product line that focus on improving the efficiency
of their existing operations

__________________ are companies with fairly broad product lines that focus on product innovation
and market opportunities.

__________________ are corporations that operate in at least two different product-market areas,
one stable and one variable.

__________________ are corporations that lack a consistent strategy-structure-culture relationship.

__________________ are variables that can significantly affect the overall competitive positions of
companies within any
particular industry.

__________________ is a formal program of gathering information on a companys competitors. Often

called business intelligence, it is one of the fastest growing fields within strategic management.

__________________ organizations that offer same, similar, or substitutable products or services in the
business area in which a particular company operates.

__________________ is the extension of present trends into the future.

__________________ is a non-quantitative approach that requires simply the presence of people with some
knowledge of the situation to be predicted.

__________________ is a non-quantitative technique in which experts in a particular area attempt to

forecast likely developments.

__________________ in which separated experts independently assess the likelihoods of specified events.
__________________ is a quantitative technique that attempts to discover causal or at least explanatory
factors that link two or more time series together.

__________________ is a recent forecasting technique enabled by easy access to the Internet.

__________________ Is the most widely used forecasting technique after trend extrapolation
__________________ are focused descriptions of different likely futures presented in a narrative fashion.
__________________ is a forecasted description of a particular industrys likely future.

II ENUMERATION

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