| concentrated industries | ..... |
| fragmented industries | ......... |
| market share | ....... |
| low entry barriers | ........ |
| entrants | ....... |
| high entry barriers | ...... |
| mergers | ...... |
| acquisitions | ......... |
| acquisitive companies | ........... |
| strategic acquisitions | .......... |
| merge | ........... |
| unwieldy conglomerate | ........ |
| subsidiaries | .......... |
| portfolio theory | ....... |
| to have disposed of/divested non-core businesses | ....... |
| core business | ...... |
| make/buy decision | ....... |
| chacbols | ...... |
| customer solution | ....... |
| customer cost | ......... |
| communication with the customer | ......... |
| to fall below expectations | ........ |
| exceeded expectations | ........ |
| word-of-mouth | ....... |
| market intelligence | ..... |
| marketing research = | market research |
| market research firm | ....... |
| define the problem | ........ |
| the research objectives | ....... |
| develop the research plan | ........ |
| collect the data | ......... |
| observational approach | .......... |
| focus group | .......... |
| moderator | ......... |
| online focus group | ........... |
| chat room | ...... |
| survey research | ....... |
| mall intercepts | ........... |
| behavioural data | ......... |
| experimental research | ........... |
| testing hypotheses | ....... |
| analyse the data | ......... |
| statistical techniques | ........... |
| present the findings | ............ |
| researchers communicate what they have found | ............... |
| marketing plan | ........... |
| marketing mix | .... |
| tactical plan | ......... |
| operational plan | ........... |