Barriers to Entry in Business
A barrier to entry is a factor, which dependant on the magnitude of
its effect upon a start-up business makes it difficult or impossible
to enter a marketplace. These factors could be things such as high
start up costs, economies of scale or monopolisation. For example,
high start up costs is a barrier to entry as it prevents anyone with
low capital from entering that market.
2) Barrier to exit should be considered just as much when entering a
market because if the company is anchored down to an unsuccessful
marketplace, it will sink day by day, and if a barrier to exit is
preventing them from leaving they couldn't cut their losses and escape
while they can. These factors are often overlooked, as they are less
obvious than barriers to entry. An example is employee commitments; if
you take on a workforce and you then decide to shut up shop you will
have to pay redundancy to these people. This is a factor, which makes
it less desirable to leave a market.
3) James Dyson had a tough challenge when he was attempting to bring
his product into this busy and populated marketplace. He had to
overcome several barriers to entry and exit. The first of which is the
problem of economies of scale of production and marketing. He
attempted to quash this problem by approaching several of the larger
companies who dominate this market, effectively making it an
oligopoly. By doing this he could launch his product into this market
but help ensure its success by nullifying the problem of economies of
scale. But unfortunately the companies rejected his idea. Dyson could
still launch his product but he would have to go it...
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company has made a great success of it for this reason alone. Due to
its size, Amazon.com is completely automated. From visiting the site,
to processing the transaction, to packing and shipping the goods,
Amazon's retail process is totally automated and usually requires no
intervention. But this level of high efficiency comes from having
large investment and the higher the investment the harder a break-even
point to reach, but the more likely you are to reach it. This is why
small companies on the net take ages to break even, the middle sized
ones invest in an effort to become efficient, but often perish in
doing so, and only the cream make it here. So no direct barriers
preventing entry or exit, but in between is a rocky road, which in
itself is something to watch for when considering a dot.com start-up.
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