Why might a business firm pursue other objectives besides the objective of maximum profits? What objectives other than profit maximisation might a firm pursue? Is this possible in a competitive world? The traditional theory of business behaviour tends to make a general assumption that businesses possess the information‚ market power and motivation to set a price and output that maximises profits. Profits being defined as the difference between the total revenue received by a firm and the total
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Tutorial 1: Markets and Organizations Q1. Case Study [pic] Managing external influences First Group (First) is the UK’s largest transport operator‚ employing more than 137‚000 people in the UK and the USA. In the UK‚ it runs rail services carrying around 275 million passengers a year. It is the UK’s largest bus operator and also runs a rail freight business. In the US‚ it operates school transport for nearly four million students a day. The company is seeking to extend it operation in UK
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Companies should strive to develop unique resources in order to gain a lasting competitive advantage. Competitive advantage‚ whatever is source‚ can ultimately be attributed to the ownership of valuable resources that enable the company to perform activities efficiently at comparatively lower costs than its competitors. Superior performance will therefore be based on developing a competitively distinct set of resources and deploying them in a well-conceived strategy. Companies should abandon the
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| AECO 141 | | Roy Marie P. Botengan T-1L | [A Feasibility Study on Establishing a Small-scale Business of Yemane (Gmelina arborea) Extract as Termite Killer] | | INTRODUCTION Yemane (Gmelina arborea) is one of the best timbers of the tropics since it may last for 15 years in contact with the soil based on their graveyard tests. Chemical constituents from the bark have not been reported‚ although some chemical constituents from part of this plant (heartwood‚ leaf‚ and root)
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Economics is the social science that deals with the production‚ distribution‚ and consumption of goods and services and with the theory and management of economies or economic systems. All economists agree on one thing‚ the economy is large and it is unpredictable. However‚ throughout the years economists have developed some simple but widely applicable principles that are useful when trying to understand decisions that are made by everyday people to the workings of highly complex markets. There
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Profits Katherine Carpenter Liberty University Econ 213 Gwartney states that profits are; “An excess of sales revenue relative to the opportunity cost of production. The cost component includes the opportunity cost of all resources‚ including those owned by the firm. Therefore‚ profit accrues only when the value of the good produced is greater than the value of the resources used for its production.” An example of a profit would be bakery offers a cheesecake for $20 and the total cost to make
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Please answer the following questions. Submit as a Microsoft Word® document to the Dropbox when completed. 1. How does the demand curve faced by a perfectly competitive firm differ from the market demand curve in a perfectly competitive market? Explain. The market demand curve will slope downwards‚ while the demand curve for the individual firm is flat or perfectly elastic‚ reflecting the fact that the individual takes the market price as given. The difference in the slopes of the market demand
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Marginal Revenue: Marginal Revenue can be termed as the change in the total revenue from an additional unit that is sold by a firm. Example‚ the total revenue when 10 units are sold is $50‚ and total revenue when 11 units are sold is $55. Marginal Revenue in this case will be (55-50)/(11-10) = $5. One can compute the total revenue if the marginal revue and the number of units sold. If the marginal revenue of a product is zero than the total revenue will not change with an increase in the number
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Supply‚ Demand and Price Elasticity People and companies make economic decisions on a daily basis by deciding how much of something they will buy and what prices they are willing to pay for the goods or services. Through individual decision-making‚ consumers determine supply demands for their needs and wants‚ and companies decide which goods and how many goods are to be sold‚ and how much to charge consumers. There are many fundamental concepts and definitions that are important to understanding
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Week two of class has been dedicated to discuss and explain how supply and demand determines the price and quantity of goods and services within a competitive market structure; examine how normal‚ inferior‚ substitutes and complement goods affects the supply and demand structure; and explain how and why surplus and shortages can occur with various goods and services. There are two parts for this assignment that covers material in chapter four. Part one asks the following: Many industries have gradually
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