Understanding The Behaviour Of Organisation

5.(Market Structures) Determine whether each of the following is a characteristic of perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and/or monopoly:

1. Describe each market structure discussed in the course (perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly) and discuss two of the market characteristics of each market structure.

Explain the most important characteristic in perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopolies and relate the characteristic to how these firms can make profits in the short run. In your analysis, make sure to relate an example for each of the market structures listed and how it relates to the particular characteristics.

The organization and characteristics of a specific market where a company operates is referred to as market structure. While markets can basically be classified by their degree of competitiveness and pricing, there are four types of markets i.e. perfect competition, monopolistic competition, monopoly, and oligopoly. In perfect competition markets, many firms are price takers whereas monopolistic competition markets are characterized by the ability of some firms to have market power. In contrast, oligopoly markets are those in which few firms can be price makers while monopoly market is where one firm can be a price maker.

We will need to analyze each market separately to show the differences and the similarities so as to understand their effects on the community and whether they allow room for entry and exit of new firms in order to grow our city economically. There are four market structures that I will provide analysis on. Perfect competition is a market structure in which there any many sellers and many buyers where not one firm (business)

The video discusses the four types of markets: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly. These different markets are all over & were established for the selling goods to consumers. Currently some of these markets might not be used anymore. By reviewing these markets will give you a better comprehension of each one.

2.1) Internal and External influence is essential to any organisation that wants to be successful. The internal environment of an organisation refers to events, factors, people, systems, structures and conditions inside the organisation that are generally under control of the company. The external environment are those that happen outside of the organisation that cause change inside organisations and are, for the most part, beyond the control of the company.

Perfect competition referred as “pure competition,” it’s a type of market structure where there are many buyers and sellers. As a result, if the price of the good or the service is too high or the quality did not meet their expectation, they would have many substitutes. Fontinelle stated that this kind of market structure has to meet 5 criteria; sell similar products making the consumer has more choices, product price could not be controlled by the companies, have small market share, each company would provide information about the product that they are selling and the price that is going to be charged for the buyers, and freedom of entry and exit should be the characterization of the industry (Fontinelle).

External environment refers to external aspects of the surroundings of business enterprise, which have influence on the functioning of business. The external environment can provide both facilitating and inhibiting influences on organizational performance. Key dimension of the external environment principally consists of a micro environment and a macro environment.

Perfect competition: in this competition, no participant dominates the market thus; no specific seller has the power to set the prices of homogeneous goods. This therefore makes the conditions of a perfect competitive market stricter than the rest of the market structures. In this market, AT&T should be willing to sell their services in a certain price that reciprocates to their demand to maximize profits.

“A business firm does not operate in a vacuum but in a given environment, and has to interact and transact its business within this environment” (Fernando, 2011, p33). The two types of business environment are external (macro and micro environment) and internal.

In this term of our discussion we’re talking about business environment. It’s like an overview of the whole business environment. Simply environment of a business means the external forces including the business decisions. They can be forces of economic, social, political and technological factors.

In today's world, no business operates in isolation without interacting with the environment where it operates. Irrespective of the nature of business whether public or private organization; manufacturing; service industry; local or international firm, its operations are inhibited by the environment in which it operates.

The markets today are so complex and deal with so many variables it can be difficult to understand just exactly how they operate. In the following I will reveal the different kinds of market structures along with their different pricing strategies. Relating to these topics, I will focus on the importance of cost, competition and customer.

One step away from perfect competition is monopolistic competition. This type of market structure has a number of different characteristics from the above. Which turn it into one of the most used market structures. In this scenario, companies are not all price takers and start making use of economies of scale in order to improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase profits. In the scenario companies sell a differentiated product at different prices. Like in perfect competition no barriers are put to entry and newcomers a constant threat to the market keeping every player always in search for a better mean to produce and compete.