4th Edition By Walker
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, Chapter 02
Competitive Advantage
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What determines the value of a product?
A. its technology
B. its market price
C. the price the customer would be willing to pay for it in the absence of competing products and
given budget constraints
D. the market prices of competing products
2. Which of the following are isolating mechanisms?
A. causal ambiguity
B. property rights
C. search costs
D. all of the above
3. Which of the following are value drivers: 1. the product's technology, 2. the firm's risk assumption,
3. economies of scale, 4. network externalities?
A. 1 and 2
B. 1, 2 and 3
C. 1, 2 and 4
D. all
4. Which of the following are cost drivers: 1. the learning curve, 2. complementary products, 3.
breadth of product line, 4. economies of scope?
A. 1 and 2
B. 3 and 4
C. 1 and 4
D. 1, 3 and 4
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