When a Company Chooses Which Principle to Follow on Issues

question 116

True/False

When a company chooses which principle to follow on issues of ethics and social responsibility,there are two common philosophies to use as guides: first,let the free market and legal system decide,and secondly,let individual managers and companies choose.

Compare and contrast the uses, similarities, and differences between conditional sales agreements and chattel mortgages.

Identify the characteristics that distinguish services from tangible goods.

Understand the classification of services based on their method of delivery (people-based vs. equipment-based).

Recognize the unique marketing concerns associated with different types of services.

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Definitions:

Flow Measure

A quantitative assessment that represents movement of items over time, often used in economics to track variables like income.

Consumption

The consumption of products and services by individuals in a household.

Impossibility Theorem

A proposition demonstrated by Kenneth Arrow showing that no system of aggregating individual preferences into social decisions will always yield consistent, nonarbitrary results.

Voting Paradox

A simple demonstration of how majority-rule voting can lead to seemingly contradictory and inconsistent results. A commonly cited illustration of the kind of inconsistency described in the impossibility theorem.