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Exogenous
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Exogenous
Describes facts outside the control of the firm. Converse of endogenous.

Exogenous
1. Describing anything outside a company's control. For example, a company may fail because of a recession even if it does everything right. In this case, the recession is an exogenous factor.

2. See: Independent Variable.


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A political economy approach also challenges the neo-classical treatment of technological change as an exogenous factor.
Ninety per cent of the pressures are due to exogenous factors," Stavrakis explained.
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