What Is Strategy? Briefly Describe the Two Broad Types of Strategies

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Essay

What is strategy? Briefly describe the two broad types of strategies that companies may choose to pursue.

Analyze the effects of demand changes on industry growth, prices, and firm entry or exit in the long run.

Understand how industry characteristics influence the shape of the long-run industry supply curve.

Recognize the process and outcomes of resource allocation in perfectly competitive markets.

Identify the factors leading to movements along or shifts of the long-run average cost curve in response to industry dynamics.

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Definitions:

Permanent Banishment

The act of expelling someone from a community, country, or organization forever, without the possibility of return.

Cooperation

The process of working together to the same end or engaging in an activity for mutual benefit.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overemphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while underemphasizing the role and power of situational influences.

Think Alike

A phrase indicating that two or more people have similar thoughts, ideas, or patterns of thinking.