Marketing
Marketing
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ISBN: 9781259924040
Author: Roger A. Kerin, Steven W. Hartley
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To determine: The strategies that Company J must consider to make an effective barrier for entry

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The variations in the marketing environment are the major source of opportunities and threats that has to be managed. The process of getting the facts about the external environment of the organization in order to find and understand the potential trends is known as environmental scanning.

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