AQA A Level Business Unit 9 Revision

Question 1

In anticipation of slower market growth, a business is implementing a retrenchment strategy. This is likely to include:

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Delayering

Question 2

Which one of the following is not normally considered a reason for ‘economies of scope’?

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Experience

Question 3

Which of the following is not a type of intellectual property protection?

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Idea Rights

Question 4

Behaving like an entrepreneur, through assertive risk taking and innovation, while working within a large business’ is

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Intrapreneurship

Question 5

According to Bartlett and Ghoshal a ‘multi-domestic’ enterprise is characterised by:

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High pressure for differentiation and low pressure for integration

Question 6

Economies of scope arise

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when unit costs fall as no. of different goods & services produced increase

Question 7

Bartlett and Ghoshal believe that the choice of growth model adopted by global businesses depends upon the

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degree of need to integrate (globalise) & need to differentiate (localise)

Question 8

An events management group suffers a cash flow crisis after offering a new client generous credit terms. Example of:

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Overtrading

Question 9

One of the main problems in the third stage of Greiner’s growth model is

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Due to decentralisation middle managers struggle in their roles as leaders

Question 10

A UK based security alarm systems manufacturer faced with rising costs might consider entering the Chinese market by:

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Offshoring

Question 11

Which of the following statements is not true with respect to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)?

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ERP cannot be shared across all functional departments

Question 12

In Greiner’s, end of creativity phase and start of direction phase is caused by a crisis or need for transition due to:

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Leadership

Question 13

A ‘kaizen’ philosophy is inappropriate when a business requires change which is:

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Disruptive

Question 14

Capacity utilisation increases from 70% to 85% and unit costs decline. This is an example of:

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Efficiency

Question 15

The process of discovering correlations among numerous different fields of data’ is known as

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Data mining

Question 16

Bartlett and Ghoshal identified four distinct types of multinational corporation. One type is called:

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Transnational

Question 17

Which would be least likely to prevent a growing business from suffering an increase in unit costs due to diseconomies

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Data Mining

Question 18

Data mining always requires the use of:

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Digital technology

Question 19

An American Banking consortium moves jobs in its ‘back office’ operations from its office in India to Chicago

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Reshoring

Question 20

Recruiting a health care specialist to manage contracts with hospitals & medical centres is which Economy of scale?

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Managerial

Question 21

A UK based vehicle component manufacturer is more likely to source more inputs from abroad if

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The pound sterling exchange rate strengthens

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