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Business services

The business service industry provides the core business skills and knowledge required for a high performing workplace.It covers an array of expertise, including customer contact, business administration, business management, business information and human resource management.

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comparative advantage

Business services; Marketing

Occurs when one country or company can produce at a lower opportunity cost than another.

competitive strategy

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A plan from which a company will devise a method to compete against its competitors.

cooperative

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A group of companies or individuals who pool their resources to gain better leverage in buying or selling goods or services.

countertrade

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The agreement that one party will exchange their goods or services for another party's goods or services, with or without a partial cash transfer.

diffusion theory

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A theory stating consumers will adopt new products in the following different waves: innovators (2 percent of population), early adopters (14 percent), early majority (34 ...

distribution channel

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A chain from which products or services flow, from one intermediary to another intermediary, who raises the price point, towards the consumer.

ethnocentrism

Business services; Marketing

A belief that one's own culture and ethnic group are superior to another's.