Chapter 1 Recharge

Companies that are customer-driven

1) Listen to their customers
2) Adjust their offerings accordingly

Jean's bicycle repair business has been operating at a loss for several months due to high inventory costs and low sales revenues. If she continues to operate at a loss, it is likely that Jean will have to...

close

Entrepreneurs take _________ because they know many small businesses fail every year

risks

the total amount of money a business takes in during a given period by selling goods and services

revenue

What is the definition of the standard of living?

The amount of goods and services people can buy with the money they have

Changes in the technological environment include the emergence of Information Technology that includes such tools as

cell phones, computers, and the Internet

The five _________ of __________ are land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship, and knowledge.

factors; production

The purposes of nonprofit organizations include

1) filling an educational need
2) filling a societal need

Demography is the statistical study of

the human population's characteristics such as size, density, age, gender, and income

What is it that entrepreneurs risk losing when they start a business?

Time and money

An intangible product such as health care is a

service

Which of the following products are classified as a service?

Life Insurance
Plane flight to Ireland

When Apple, Nike, and other companies contract with companies in other countries to manufacture their products or answer their call centers, it is known as

outsourcing

Businesses are part of a country'

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