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Identify situations where businesses face minimal or no competition.
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Competitive environment
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Competition and markets
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Identify situations where businesses face minimal or no competition
- This point belongs to Competitive environment, especially Competition and markets.
- You need to be able to identify situations where businesses face minimal or no competition.
- The key ideas to know are competition.
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Quick student answer
Identify a real‑world situation where a business faces minimal or no competition and explain why this situation exists.
Direct answer
A single company that owns the only water treatment plant in a rural region. The plant is the sole provider of clean water because building additional plants would be prohibitively expensive and the demand is too low to justify competition.
How it works
The business operates as a natural monopoly: high fixed costs and low demand create a barrier to entry, leaving the company without competitors.
Key terms
- Monopoly: A market structure in which a single firm is the sole supplier of a product or service, with no close substitutes and significant barriers to entry.
Common trap
Confusing monopoly with monopolistic competition: A monopoly has only one firm and no close substitutes; monopolistic competition involves many firms selling differentiated products.
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