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KINKED DEMAND CURVE

Standard demand curve with a bend depicting competitors decreasing prices to match another’s, yet not raising prices to match another’s. Concern is that raising prices lose customers, so that once a business

KNOWLEDGE CREATION

Defined by Ikujiro Nonaka, interactions between explicit and tacit knowledge form new ideas. Socialization (tacit to tacit), externalization (tacit to explicit), combination (explicit to explicit), and internalization (explicit to tacit) are the

KAIZEN COSTING

Reducing product costs even if being produced. A process involving effective waste management, continuous product improvement and raw material price reduction. Cost minimization is a strategy in overall product cost reduction.

KEY ESCROW

Copy or copies of a code, password, or secret key protected by a third party for use in an emergency or when the originals) is(are) lost. Escrowed items may be separated to

KEYNESIAN THEORY

British economist John Maynard Keynes established this economic theory. A stable, growing economy requires active government intervention is the concept embodied by the theory.

KINKED YIELD CURVE

When medium term interest rates are higher than low or high. Refer to negative yield curve, yield curve, and positive yield curve.

KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Building, evaluating, and trading knowledge is the basis of this economy. Labor costs slowly decrease in importance while dwindling concern occurs over scarcity of resources and economies of scale, traditional economic concepts.

KARAT

Fineness, as a measure of the purity, of gold. It also indicate gold proportion in an alloy. UK spelling of both carat and karat is carat. Germany spelling is karat. 24 karats

KEY JOBS

Organization’s and Labor market’s common jobs used to determine general pay scales. Clerks, drivers, janitors, and secretaries are examples of common jobs.

KEYNESIAN UNEMPLOYMENT

Because the economy is in recession, employers have low demands for their goods and services, situation exists where low wage-rates should drive to higher employment levels, but do not.

KIOSK

Upright, retail outlet display or entry-port in a large retail establishment or a shopping mall to assist customers.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Building of an organization’s intellectual assets by strategies and processes. Driving to identify, capture, structure, value, leverage, and share, enhancing results and market share. Two critical activities are its basis: (1) retain

KARL MARX

The foundation of communism evolved from this revolutionary socialist thinker. He strongly opposed capitalism, believing it would destroy societies by increasing tensions and disparity between workers and owners. His theories and ideas

KEY LIFETIME

For encryption-decryption security, private decryption keys have no expiration, an indefinite lifetime. Secret keys, however, have terminal lifetimes that need to be defined in an organization’s security policy.

KEYSTONE MARKUP

Gross margin equaling cost price or half the sale price. Said another way, any item selling at twice the wholesale cost, purchased or produced, has a keystone markup.

KIT

One item under its own part number or SKU, comprised of several other finished goods (FG), each with its own SKU. Refer to separate stock keeping unit (SKU).

KNOWLEDGE MAP

Atlas of documents, files, databases, recordings of best practices or activities, or web pages as a organization’s internal or external repositories guide and inventory.

K-COMMERCE

Knowledge Exchange as the basis of an economy where knowledge capital is the defacto currency, an underlying premise in knowledge-based economies .

KEY MAN RISK

The effect losing one important member of the team causes.

KEY-TESTED TELEX

Telex machine wire fund transfer messages authenticated using code (key) numbers. Contrast to modern digital data transfer. .

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