Environmental Analysis Requires Continual Questioning of All of These Assumptions

question 59

Multiple Choice

Environmental analysis requires continual questioning of all of these assumptions except

• A)a priori ideas about the structure of the relevant industry.
• B)biases about how to make money in the industry.
• C)presuppositions about who is and is not a competitor.
• D)continual updating of environmental knowledge.

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Definitions:

House Un-American Activities Committee

A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, established in 1938, that conducted investigations into alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.

Paramount Decision

A 1948 United States Supreme Court decision that effectively broke up the studio trusts by forcing divestiture, the sale of the studios’ movie theaters.

Vertical Integration

A business practice where a company controls multiple stages of production, distribution, or both within the same industry, often to increase that company’s power in the marketplace.

Blind Bidding

A system in which theater owners were forced by the studios to bid on films without the benefit of exhibitor screenings.