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University of Sialkot

Department of Business Administration

Batch: BBA 6th Subject:  Entrepreneurship Assignment No.: 02

Instructor: Dr Wasim Akram Code: MGT-3007

Name: Abdul Rauf Qureshi Roll No. :18102001-015

Question # 1:
What are the eentrepreneurial strategies to generating and exploiting new entries?
Answer:
Entrepreneurial strategy: Set of decisions, actions, and reactions that generate, and exploit, a
new entry over time.
New Entry:
 New product in an established or new market
 Established product in a new market
 A new organization
Generation of a New Entry Opportunity resource:
 Inputs into the production process
 Source of competitive advantage
 Basic building blocks to a firm's functioning
 Can be combined in different ways
Provide capacity to achieve superior performance when they are:
 Valuable
 Rare
 Inimitable
Market knowledge: Information, technology, know-how, and skills that provide insight into a
market and its customers.
Technological knowledge: Provides insight into ways to create new knowledge.
Assessing the attractiveness of a new entry opportunity:
 Determining whether the entrepreneurs believe that they can make the proposed new
entry work level of the information (search and knowledge)
 window of opportunity; period of time when environment is favorable for them to
exploit a new level of entry
 willingness to make decision without perfect information
First Mover Advantages:
 Develop a cost advantage
 Face less competitive rivalry
 Can secure important channels
First mover disadvantages:
 Alternate technologies will emerge and leapfrog over current technologies
 Persistence and determination can inhibit the ability to adapt
 Difficulty in accurately assessing whether the new product or service provides value
Overcome customer uncertainty by:
 Informational advertising
 Highlighting product benefits over substitutes
 Creating a frame of reference for potential customers
Lead time: Grace period in which the first mover operates in the industry under conditions of
limited competition.
Lead time can be extended by:
 Building customer loyalties
 Building switching costs
 Securing access to important sources of supply and distribution
Market-scope strategies:
 Scope: Choice about which customer groups to serve and how to serve them
 Offers small product range to a small number of customers to satisfy a
particular need
 Focuses on:
 Producing customized products
 Localized business operations
 High level craftsmanship
 High-end of the market
 Opens the firm up to many different "fronts" of competition
Imitation strategies:
 Copying practices of other
 Help develop skills necessary to be successful in the industry
 Make the new entry look legitimate from day one
liabilities of newness:
 Negative implications arising from an organization's newness
 Arise from:
 Costs in learning new tasks
 Conflict arising from overlap or gaps in responsibilities
 Informal structures
Assets of Newness:
 Positive implications arising from an organization's newness
 Learning advantage
Reference:
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exploiting-new-entries-flash-cards/

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