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Entrepreneurship in Tourism and Hospitality

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An Irish economist of French descent.

a)

a. Ricard Cantilion

b)

b. Frank H. Knight

c)

c. Joseph A. Schumpeter

2.

Friedrich A. Hayek and Israel M. Kirzner explained about this kind of activity.

a)

a. risk taking

b)

b. creative destruction

c)

c. low-level activity

3.

The person who said that the entrepreneur is someone who carries out new combinations.

a)

a. Joseph Schumpeter

b)

b. Frank H. Knight

c)

c. Hayek and Kirzner

4.

The US economist who distinguished between risk and uncertainty.

a)

a. Joseph A. Schumpeter

b)

b. Frank H. Knight

c)

c. Richard Cantillon

5.

He observed that while the entrepreneur can "lay off" risks much like insurance companies do, he is left to bear the uncertainties himself.

a)

a. Frank H. Knight

b)

b. Richard Cantillon

c)

c. Joseph Schumpeter

6.

He was concerned with the "high level" kind of entrepreneurship

a)

a. Friedrich A. Hayek and Israel M. Kirzner.

b)

b. Joseph A. Schumpeter

c)

c. Richard Cantillon

7.

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)

a. Richard Cantillon

b)

b. Joseph A. Schumpeter

c)

c. Frank Knight

8.

His analysis left little room for the much more common, but no less important, "low-level" entrepreneurship carried on by small firms.

a)

a. Friedrich Hayer

b)

b. Israel Kirzner

c)

c. Joseph A. Schumpeter

9.

According to his original formulation, the entrepreneurship is a specialist in taking risk.

a)

a. Frank Knight

b)

b. Peter Drucker

c)

c. Richard Cantillon

10.

According to him, changes affecting the marketing of consumer products generally fall in the uncertainty category.

a)

a. Frank H Knight

b)

b. Israel M. Kirzner

c)

c. Joseph A. Schumpeter

11.

According to these economists, entrepreneurs in a market economy are motivated to do so by profit opportunities.

a)

a. Frank Knight and Peter Drucker

b)

b. Friedrich A. Hayek and Israel M. Kirzner.

c)

c. Joseph A. Schumpeter and Richard Cantillon

12.

The difficulty with the Austrian approach is that it isolates the entrepreneur from the firm.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The title of entrepreneur should however be confirmed to an owner or manager who exhibits the key trait of entrepreneurship.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Entrepreneurs have many of the same character traits as the president.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

No single food-service operational has universal appeal.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

One of the characteristics of entrepreneurship states that entrepreneur has an enthusiastic vision, the driving force of an enterprise.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

An entrepreneur is usually a negative thinker and not a decision maker.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Entrepreneurs are often contrasted with managers and administrators who are said to be more methodical and less prone to risk-taking.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Under the contributions of the entrepreneur that states that the biggest employer is the private business sector.

a)

a. Create employment

b)

b. Mobilize capital resources

c)

c. Develop new markets

20.

Healthy competition thus encourages higher quality products is one of the characteristics of entrepreneurship.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

What is Entrepreneurship?

a)

a. the practice of making one's living by engaging in commerce.

b)

b. the action or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising.

c)

c. the activity of setting up a business or businesses, taking on

financial risks in the hope of profit.

22.

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.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

In a ____________ , price information is provided by entrepreneurs while bureaucrats in a socialist economy have no incentive to discover prices for themselves.

a)

a. business economy

b)

b. market economy

c)

c. entrepreneurial economy

24.

One of the types of uncertainty which is impossible to estimate or predict statistically.

a)

a. True Uncertainty

b)

b. Ambiguity

c)

c. Risk

25.

According to Joseph A. Schumpeter old industries are rendered obsolete by a process of _____________.

a)

a. “new combinations”

b)

b. “creative destruction”.

c)

c. "innovation"

26.

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)

a. Peter Drucker

b)

b. Israel M. Kirzner

c)

c. John Stuart Mill

27.

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied with traditional or existing sources of materials.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

In economics, capital resources represent internet, social media, and other non-physical productive resources.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

One of the advantage of Entrepreneurship states that healthy competition thus encourages higher quality products.

a)

True

b)

False

30.

One of the characteristics of entrepreneurship states that emigration of talent may be stopped by a better domestic entrepreneurship climate.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

Millions of jobs are provided by the government, non-service industries, business enterprises, and the numerous high-scale businesses.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

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)

a. Generation X

b)

b. Generation Y

c)

c. Baby Boomers

33.

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)

a. Empty nesters.

b)

b. Baby boomers.

c)

c. Seniors

34.

Born between 1946 and 1964, _________ make up the largest segment of the U.S. population.

a)

a. seniors

b)

b. baby boomers

c)

c. empty nesters

35.

This group of business service customers are more likely to focus on their relationship with their children.

a)

a. Baby boomers

b)

b. Generation X

c)

c. Empty Nesters

36.

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)

a. Generation X

b)

b. Generation Y

c)

c. Seniors

37.

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)

a. Empty nesters

b)

b. Seniors

c)

c. Baby boomers

38.

_________ 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)

a. Generation X

b)

b. Empty nesters

c)

c. Seniors

39.

“Younger” seniors are likely to be more active and have more disposable income than “older” seniors, whose health may be declining.

a)

True

b)

False

40.

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.

a)

True

b)

False

41.

Restaurants are classified into three primary categories. What are they?

(a)  

42.

This primary category of restaurant offer limited menus on item that are prepared quickly and sold for a relatively low price.

(a)  

43.

Fine-dining establishments are examples of what category in restaurant service style?

(a)  

44.

Give at least 3 popular restaurant or food concepts.

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45.

Select multiple boxes containing the different contributions of the Entrepreneurs.

a)

Disseminate news and current affairs

b)

Mobilize capital resources

c)

Providing the community's financial needs

d)

Introduce new technologies, new industries and new products

e)

Create employment

46.

46-50 (5 points)


Discuss the contribution of the Entrepreneurs in helping the economy's progress.

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