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WorksheetsEntrepreneurship in Tourism and Hospitality
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 21mins
An Irish economist of French descent.
a. Ricard Cantilion
b. Frank H. Knight
c. Joseph A. Schumpeter
Friedrich A. Hayek and Israel M. Kirzner explained about this kind of activity.
a. risk taking
b. creative destruction
c. low-level activity
The person who said that the entrepreneur is someone who carries out new combinations.
a. Joseph Schumpeter
b. Frank H. Knight
c. Hayek and Kirzner
The US economist who distinguished between risk and uncertainty.
a. Joseph A. Schumpeter
b. Frank H. Knight
c. Richard Cantillon
He observed that while the entrepreneur can "lay off" risks much like insurance companies do, he is left to bear the uncertainties himself.
a. Frank H. Knight
b. Richard Cantillon
c. Joseph Schumpeter
He was concerned with the "high level" kind of entrepreneurship
a. Friedrich A. Hayek and Israel M. Kirzner.
b. Joseph A. Schumpeter
c. Richard Cantillon
He maintained that no owner would ever delegate a key decision to a salaried subordinate, because he implicitly assumed that subordinate cannot be trusted.
a. Richard Cantillon
b. Joseph A. Schumpeter
c. Frank Knight
His analysis left little room for the much more common, but no less important, "low-level" entrepreneurship carried on by small firms.
a. Friedrich Hayer
b. Israel Kirzner
c. Joseph A. Schumpeter
According to his original formulation, the entrepreneurship is a specialist in taking risk.
a. Frank Knight
b. Peter Drucker
c. Richard Cantillon
According to him, changes affecting the marketing of consumer products generally fall in the uncertainty category.
a. Frank H Knight
b. Israel M. Kirzner
c. Joseph A. Schumpeter
According to these economists, entrepreneurs in a market economy are motivated to do so by profit opportunities.
a. Frank Knight and Peter Drucker
b. Friedrich A. Hayek and Israel M. Kirzner.
c. Joseph A. Schumpeter and Richard Cantillon
The difficulty with the Austrian approach is that it isolates the entrepreneur from the firm.
True
False
The title of entrepreneur should however be confirmed to an owner or manager who exhibits the key trait of entrepreneurship.
True
False
Entrepreneurs have many of the same character traits as the president.
True
False
No single food-service operational has universal appeal.
True
False
One of the characteristics of entrepreneurship states that entrepreneur has an enthusiastic vision, the driving force of an enterprise.
True
False
An entrepreneur is usually a negative thinker and not a decision maker.
True
False
Entrepreneurs are often contrasted with managers and administrators who are said to be more methodical and less prone to risk-taking.
True
False
Under the contributions of the entrepreneur that states that the biggest employer is the private business sector.
a. Create employment
b. Mobilize capital resources
c. Develop new markets
Healthy competition thus encourages higher quality products is one of the characteristics of entrepreneurship.
True
False
What is Entrepreneurship?
a. the practice of making one's living by engaging in commerce.
b. the action or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising.
c. the activity of setting up a business or businesses, taking on
financial risks in the hope of profit.
According to Joseph A. Schumpeter, in the long run, competition between entrepreneurs arbitrages away rice differentials, but in the short run, such differentials once discovered to generate a profit for arbitrageur.
True
False
In a ____________ , price information is provided by entrepreneurs while bureaucrats in a socialist economy have no incentive to discover prices for themselves.
a. business economy
b. market economy
c. entrepreneurial economy
One of the types of uncertainty which is impossible to estimate or predict statistically.
a. True Uncertainty
b. Ambiguity
c. Risk
According to Joseph A. Schumpeter old industries are rendered obsolete by a process of _____________.
a. “new combinations”
b. “creative destruction”.
c. "innovation"
Whose economist popularized Richard Cantillon's definition of entrepreneurship in his 1848 classic Principles of Political Economy, but then all disappeared from the economics literature by the end of the 19th century?
a. Peter Drucker
b. Israel M. Kirzner
c. John Stuart Mill
Entrepreneurs are never satisfied with traditional or existing sources of materials.
True
False
In economics, capital resources represent internet, social media, and other non-physical productive resources.
True
False
One of the advantage of Entrepreneurship states that healthy competition thus encourages higher quality products.
True
False
One of the characteristics of entrepreneurship states that emigration of talent may be stopped by a better domestic entrepreneurship climate.
True
False
Millions of jobs are provided by the government, non-service industries, business enterprises, and the numerous high-scale businesses.
True
False
This generation in the restaurant business is the most ethnically diverse generation yet and is more than three times than the size of other generation, they are a prime target for a food-service business.
a. Generation X
b. Generation Y
c. Baby Boomers
What market categories of food- service business customers states that the senior market covers the large age group of people age 65 and older.
a. Empty nesters.
b. Baby boomers.
c. Seniors
Born between 1946 and 1964, _________ make up the largest segment of the U.S. population.
a. seniors
b. baby boomers
c. empty nesters
This group of business service customers are more likely to focus on their relationship with their children.
a. Baby boomers
b. Generation X
c. Empty Nesters
They are concerned with values, and they favor quick service restaurants and midscale operations that offer all-you-can-eat salad bars and buffets.
a. Generation X
b. Generation Y
c. Seniors
They are less concerned with price and are more focused on excellent service and outstanding food. Appeal to this group with elegant surroundings and a sophisticated ambience.
a. Empty nesters
b. Seniors
c. Baby boomers
_________ typically appreciate restaurant that offer early-bird specials senior menus with a lower prices and smaller portions, since their appetites are less hearty than those of younger people.
a. Generation X
b. Empty nesters
c. Seniors
“Younger” seniors are likely to be more active and have more disposable income than “older” seniors, whose health may be declining.
True
False
Empty nesters typically have grown children who no longer live at home, and their ranks will continue to increase as the baby boomers grow older and their children leave home.
True
False
Restaurants are classified into three primary categories. What are they?
(a)
This primary category of restaurant offer limited menus on item that are prepared quickly and sold for a relatively low price.
(a)
Fine-dining establishments are examples of what category in restaurant service style?
(a)
Give at least 3 popular restaurant or food concepts.
Select multiple boxes containing the different contributions of the Entrepreneurs.
Disseminate news and current affairs
Mobilize capital resources
Providing the community's financial needs
Introduce new technologies, new industries and new products
Create employment
46-50 (5 points)
Discuss the contribution of the Entrepreneurs in helping the economy's progress.
