Business Competition
Akopọ
Walk down any high street and you will see two very different kinds of business: a corner shop selling almost identical bread and milk to twenty rivals within walking distance, and a single national water company that every household in the region must buy from because there is no alternative supplier. Both are real market structures, and the amount of competition each firm faces changes almost everything about how it behaves.
In this lesson you will travel along the spectrum of market structures from highly competitive markets to monopoly, examine why some firms grow large while others deliberately stay small, and unpack the barriers that keep monopolies and oligopolies protected from new rivals. You will finish able to judge, for a given market, whether more competition or more concentration serves consumers better.
Awọn Afojusun
- Advantages and disadvantages of competition to firms, consumers and the economy, including efficiency, choice, quality, innovation, price
- Advantages and disadvantages of large firms and small firms
- Factors influencing the growth of firms: government regulation, access to finance, economies of scale, the desire to spread risk, the desire to take over competitors
- Reasons firms stay small: size of market, nature of market (niche), lack of finance, aims of the entrepreneur
- Definition of monopoly
- Main features of monopoly: one business dominates the market, unique product, price-maker, barriers to entry (legal barriers, patents, marketing budgets, technology, high start-up costs)
- Advantages and disadvantages of monopoly: efficiency, choice, quality, innovation, price, economies of scale
- Definition of oligopoly
- Main features of oligopoly: few firms, large firms dominate, different products, barriers to entry, collusion, non-price competition, price competition
- Advantages and disadvantages of oligopoly: choice, quality, innovation, collusion and cartels fixing high prices, price wars between oligopolies
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Oriire fun ipari ẹkọ lori Business Competition. Ni bayi ti o ti ṣawari naa awọn imọran bọtini ati awọn imọran, o to akoko lati fi imọ rẹ si idanwo. Ẹka yii nfunni ni ọpọlọpọ awọn adaṣe awọn ibeere ti a ṣe lati fun oye rẹ lokun ati ṣe iranlọwọ fun ọ lati ṣe iwọn oye ohun elo naa.
Iwọ yoo pade adalu awọn iru ibeere, pẹlu awọn ibeere olumulo pupọ, awọn ibeere idahun kukuru, ati awọn ibeere iwe kikọ. Gbogbo ibeere kọọkan ni a ṣe pẹlu iṣaro lati ṣe ayẹwo awọn ẹya oriṣiriṣi ti imọ rẹ ati awọn ogbon ironu pataki.
Lo ise abala yii gege bi anfaani lati mu oye re lori koko-ọrọ naa lagbara ati lati ṣe idanimọ eyikeyi agbegbe ti o le nilo afikun ikẹkọ. Maṣe jẹ ki awọn italaya eyikeyi ti o ba pade da ọ lójú; dipo, wo wọn gẹgẹ bi awọn anfaani fun idagbasoke ati ilọsiwaju.
- Which market structure is characterised by many small firms selling an identical product, none able to influence the market price? A) Monopoly B) Oligopoly C) Perfect competition D) Natural monopoly Answer: C
- Which of the following is a barrier to entry? A) Falling consumer demand B) A patent protecting a product design C) A fall in raw material prices D) An increase in the number of suppliers Answer: B
- A market is dominated by four large firms who compete mainly through advertising and loyalty schemes rather than price. This best describes: A) Perfect competition B) Monopoly C) Oligopoly D) A niche market Answer: C
- Which of the following best explains why a monopolist can act as a price-maker? A) It has lower costs than every other firm B) Consumers have no close substitute to switch to C) It always sells at the lowest possible price D) Government sets its price directly Answer: B
- Which of the following is most likely to encourage a small firm to remain small rather than grow? A) Easy access to bank finance B) Operating in a niche market with limited total demand C) Strong economies of scale D) A government subsidy for expansion Answer: B
O wa lori ohun elo Green Bridge
Gba ohun elo Green Bridge CBT sori foonu tabi kọmputa rẹ lati ri awọn akọsilẹ ẹkọ ni kikun, awọn ibeere adaṣe, ati diẹ sii.
O wa lori ohun elo Green Bridge
Gba ohun elo Green Bridge CBT sori foonu tabi kọmputa rẹ lati ri awọn akọsilẹ ẹkọ ni kikun, awọn ibeere adaṣe, ati diẹ sii.
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