Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (12th Edition)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780134130422
Author: Jay Heizer, Barry Render, Chuck Munson
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter A, Problem 29P
Summary Introduction
To determine: The expected value of the game.
Introduction: A tool which supports in decision making with the help of tree or graph or model of decision including their consequences, outcomes, cost, resources and utility. It helps to show the outcome of one choice affects the other and its future consequences.
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A researcher wants to study the effect of a price change on the sales of various brands of a certain
product. Assume the market is made up of four brands - W, X, Y and Z- and the price change
(decrease) for brand W is introduced immediately after time t0. Assume every respondent buys
exactly one unit of the product in each period. Data on number of respondents buying each brand
in each period, based on a panel, are as follows:
W
W
175
25
0.
to
100
25
25
Y
25
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50
Z
50
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Note: Confine your attention only to the data presented. Assume the world starts at to and stops
after ti and the strategies of brands X, Y, and Z are unchanged between to and ti.
a)
Based on the data, is the price change for brand W successful? Focus on the market
share as the relevant criterion. Show the calculations
b) How many individuals in total switched brands between periods to and t1? Show your
calculations.
Question 14
Which of the following is true of decision trees when used to solve a complex problem?
They can be converted into truth tables.
They can be used only when the decision maker is risk neutral.
They provide a useful way to decompose the problem.
None of the choices
They are used to compute a decision maker's risk tolerance.
Question 31
When a firm operates in multiple geographic markets simultaneously it is said to be
implementing a product diversification strategy.
OA) True
B) False
Question 32
Multipoint competition exists when two or more diversified firms simultaneously
compete in multiple markets, and multipoint competition can serve to facilitate a
particular type of tacit collusion called mutual forbearance.
A) True
B) False
Question 33
Institutional owners are usually pension funds, mutual funds, insurance companies,
or other groups of investors that have joined together to manage their investments.
OA) True
B) False
Chapter A Solutions
Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (12th Edition)
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