Chapter 3 Marketing Quiz – Flashcards
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
Environmental scanning-
answer
collecting external marketing environment information to identify and interpret potential trends.
question
Environmental management-
answer
attainment of organizational objectives by predicting and influencing the competitive, political-legal, economic, technological, and social-cultural environments.
question
2 kinds of environment:
answer
Competitive Marketing
question
Competitive:
answer
philosophical market structure
question
Marketing:
answer
social forces
question
Various components of the competitive environment:
answer
-Pure/Perfect: price determined by supply and demand -Monopolistic -Oligopolistic -Monopoly
question
What three questions need to be answered in determining a competitive strategy?
answer
-Should we compete? -In what markets should we compete? -How should we compete?
question
3 kinds of competitions
answer
direct Indirect competition among all firms that compete for consumers' purchases
question
Marketing environment-
answer
The actors and forces that affect a firm's ability to build and maintain successful relationships with customers.
question
Direct:
answer
similar, primary
question
Indirect:
answer
replace your product, new category, secondary
question
Competition among all firms that compete for consumers' purchases:
answer
anyone trying to get your customers' money (TV or plane ticket?)
question
4 dimensions of social responsibility:
answer
-Economic -Legal -Ethical -Philanthropic
question
Social responsibility
answer
Marketing philosophies, policies, procedures, and actions that have the enhancement of society's welfare as a primary objective.
question
Marketing ethics-
answer
Marketers' standards of conduct and moral values.
question
Consumerism-
answer
The social force within the environment that aids and protects the consumer and exerts legal, moral, and economic pressures on business and government.
question
2 ways companies must respond to the marketing environment
answer
-Reactive: passive acceptance and adaptation -Proactive: environmental management
question
What are the components of the marketing environment?
answer
Microenvironment: actors close to the company Macroenvironment