Dollinger index

The Environment for Entrepreneurship 89 variables that affect new venture creation include household formation, work modes and l ...

90 ENTREPRENEURSHIP Scanning and monitoring lifestyle changes are relatively easy because many diverse sources of data are avail ...

The Environment for Entrepreneurship 91 of a business, not at the crisis stage. In addition, financial calculations should fully ...

92 ENTREPRENEURSHIP remarkably stable over time: One-year results for an industry might be spectacularly bad or good, but overal ...

The Environment for Entrepreneurship 93 SOURCE: Adapted from The Free Press, A Division of Simon & Schuster, from Competitiv ...

94 ENTREPRENEURSHIP counts. The bases for these discounts are: (1) the threat to withhold the order and dis- rupt production, (2 ...

The Environment for Entrepreneurship 95 er is the credibility of its threat of forward integration. Indifference to Quality. If ...

96 ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Write Stuff Formany vendors it represents nirvana: access to 138 million customers every week in 5,300 s ...

The Environment for Entrepreneurship 97 ciples apply, only here the focal industry is the buyer. Suppliers can exert pressure on ...

98 ENTREPRENEURSHIP lyzed using the framework described previously. Every new venture has a portfolio of suppliers—some can be i ...

The Environment for Entrepreneurship 99 be made in an industry with low-entry barriers, and no profit can be made in an indus- t ...

100 ENTREPRENEURSHIP presence of either of these conditions drives the industry price level down to the entry- deterring price, ...

The Environment for Entrepreneurship 101 or right to use any trademarks, trade names, service marks or logos displayed on this W ...

102 ENTREPRENEURSHIP Commodity-Type Products. When the product is a commodity, or is perceived by the public as a commodity bec ...

The Environment for Entrepreneurship 103 for alliances that would strengthen both firms. Or the entrepreneur may be required to ...

104 ENTREPRENEURSHIP Resource Types and Attributes Physical resources Rare Valuable Hard to copy Nonsubstitutable Reputational r ...

The Environment for Entrepreneurship 105 design a strategy that offsets the profit-reducing forces within an industry, the new v ...

106 ENTREPRENEURSHIP Discuss the primary factors in political and governmental analysis. Compare and contrast these factors for ...

The Environment for Entrepreneurship 107 Return to the business treatments and ideas that you developed in the Chapter 2 exerci ...

108 ENTREPRENEURSHIP general-cleaning service, the company offers more comprehensive spring-cleaning over- hauls and professiona ...