(Solved): Question 1 It was a dark and stormy night. Tom Bellerby, president of Bellerby Foghorns Inc., was ha ...

Question 1 It was a dark and stormy night. Tom Bellerby, president of Bellerby Foghorns Inc., was having a restless night. Tom's firm had been quite successful in the foghorn business, particularly in Kentucky's Ohio River Valley where the locals report that the fog sometimes gets so thick that drivers have to get out of their cars to see where they are going. Drivers found Bellerby's designs to be the most advanced because of their multiple pitches and because their technology enabled them to make their horns wail more frenetically as an approaching car would near an immovable object. However, recently, several firms had indicated that they might enter the automobile foghorn industry. Tom was trying to evaluate how real a threat this new entry might be. Tom knew that his foghorns were widely acknowledged as unique in the automobile foghorn market. Their performance was unmatched, and many customers were willing to pay a fow extra dollars just to have a Bellerby foghorn. Tom also knew that to minimize manufacturing costs, plants needed to manufacture no more or no less than 350,000 fog horns a year. ©urrently, Bellerby had three such plants all operating at capacity. Bellerby's only two competitors each had one optimally sized plant apiece. Recent estimates suggested that total demand for automobile foghorns was likely to remain stable at 2,000 vear, and that no radically new manufacturing technologies were available. the specific concerns of this stylized industry, should Tom Bellerby be worried now about potential entrants into the automobile foghorn market? Before answering Tom's concern, what type of question is this? A question about rivalry. A question about potential entrants. A question about barriers to entry. A question about substitutes. (E) A question about buyers.