Glossary
Jargon, decoded.
A
B
- Balance of payments
- Barriers to entry
- Barriers to exit
- Behavioural economics
- Benchmarking
- Beta coefficient
- Black swan
- Blitzscaling
- Blue ocean strategy
- Bootstrapping
- Bottleneck
- Boundary spanning
- Bounded rationality
- Brand equity
- Break-even point
- Bullwhip effect
- Bundling
- Bureaucracy
- Burn rate
- Business cycle
- Business model innovation
- Business process reengineering
C
- Capacity planning
- Capital accumulation
- Capital asset pricing model
- Capital structure
- Cartel
- Catch-up growth
- Causal ambiguity
- Centralisation and decentralisation
- Change management
- Cheap talk
- Choice architecture
- Churn rate
- Closed innovation
- Club good
- Coase theorem
- Cognitive bias
- Collusion
- Commitment device
- Common-pool resource
- Communities of practice
- Comparative advantage
- Competency trap
- Competitive advantage
- Competitive positioning
- Complementary assets
- Confirmation bias
- Consumer surplus
- Contestable market
- Contingency theory
- Coopetition
- Coordination game
- Core competence
- Core rigidity
- Corporate governance
- Corporate strategy
- Cost leadership
- Cost of capital
- Cost of equity
- Creative destruction
- Credible commitment
- Cross elasticity of demand
- Crossing the chasm
- Crowding out
- Customer acquisition cost
- Customer lifetime value
D
E
F
G
H
I
- Income elasticity of demand
- Incomplete contracts
- Incremental innovation
- Indifference curve
- Industrial policy
- Inflation
- Innovation ecosystem
- Innovation process
- Innovator's dilemma
- Institutional economics
- Institutional isomorphism
- Institutions and growth
- Intellectual property
- Interest rate
- Internal rate of return
- Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
- Isolating mechanisms
J
K
L
M
- Make-or-buy decision
- Marginal cost
- Marginal rate of substitution
- Marginal utility
- Market concentration
- Market failure
- Market positioning
- Market power
- Market segmentation
- Marketing mix
- Matrix organisation
- Mental accounting
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Minimum viable product
- Mixed strategy
- Monetary policy
- Monopolistic competition
- Monopoly
- Monopsony
- Moral hazard
- Multi-homing
- Multi-sided platform
N
O
P
- Pareto efficiency
- Patent thicket
- Path dependence
- Penetration pricing
- Perfect competition
- Phillips curve
- Pivot
- Platform business model
- Porter's five forces
- Portfolio diversification
- Positive-sum game
- Potential output
- Predatory pricing
- Price discrimination
- Price elasticity of demand
- Price skimming
- Principal-agent problem
- Prisoner's dilemma
- Process innovation
- Producer surplus
- Product innovation
- Product-market fit
- Production function
- Productive efficiency
- Productivity paradox
- Profit maximisation
- Property rights
- Prospect theory
- Psychological safety
- Public good
- Purchasing power parity
Q
R
S
- Satisficing
- Scalability
- Scenario planning
- Schelling point
- Screening
- SECI model
- Sensemaking
- Servant leadership
- Shareholder primacy
- Signalling
- Single-loop and double-loop learning
- Six Sigma
- Skunkworks
- Solow growth model
- Solvency
- Sovereign debt
- Span of control
- Stage-gate process
- Stagflation
- Stakeholder theory
- Standards war
- Status quo bias
- Strategic alliance
- Strategic fit
- Strategic group
- Strategic intent
- Strategic renewal
- Strategy as practice
- Subscription model
- Sunk cost
- Sunk cost fallacy
- Supply and demand
- Supply chain management
- Sustainable competitive advantage
- Sustaining innovation
- Switching costs
- Synergy
T
- Tacit knowledge
- Technological trajectory
- Technology adoption lifecycle
- Technology push and market pull
- Technology readiness level
- Technology S-curve
- Theory of constraints
- Time value of money
- Tit for tat
- Total addressable market
- Total factor productivity
- Total quality management
- Tragedy of the commons
- Transaction cost economics
- Transactional leadership
- Transformational leadership
- Two-factor theory
- Two-sided market
- Tying