Ziff Corp Was a Leading Electronics Firm for About Three Decades

question 93

Multiple Choice

Ziff Corp. was a leading electronics firm for about three decades. As new competitors entered the industry, Ziff Corp's market share dropped. The managers at Ziff Corp. refuse to change any of their strategies, as they believe that their existing strategies will get them back to becoming the market leaders as they did in the past. This scenario is an example of _____.

• A) distinctive competence
• B) strategic dissonance
• C) strategic uncertainty
• D) competitive inertia

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Definitions:

Actively Managed

Refers to investment funds where portfolio managers make specific investments with the goal of outperforming an investment benchmark index.

Mutual Funds

Investment programs funded by shareholders that trade in diversified holdings and are managed by professional investment managers.

Index Funds

Index Funds are mutual funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs) designed to follow certain preset rules so that the fund can track a specified basket of underlying investments.

Efficient Markets Hypothesis

The Efficient Markets Hypothesis suggests that asset prices in financial markets fully reflect all available information at any given time, making it impossible to consistently achieve higher returns than the overall market.