What Has the Most Significant Impact on Planning and Implementing

question 94

Multiple Choice

What has the most significant impact on planning and implementing operations management activities?

• A) centralization of authority
• B) economies of scale
• C) business strategy
• D) market share

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Definitions:

Minimum ATC

The lowest point on the average total cost curve, representing the most efficient scale of production.

Purely Competitive Market

An idealized market structure characterized by a large number of small firms, identical products, and free entry and exit, leading to perfect competition.

Long-run Equilibrium

The state in which all factors of production and costs are variable, leading to a situation where no firm in the market wants to change its output level, assuming no external changes.

Producer Surplus

The difference between the actual price a producer receives (or producers receive) and the minimum acceptable price; the triangular area above the supply curve and below the market price.