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1. In which of the following situations should a study's objective be disguised?
A. When requesting willingly shared, conscious-level information
B. When the study's objective is unlikely to affect the participants' responses
C. When requesting reluctantly shared, conscious-level information
D. When requesting knowable, conscious-level information
2. Assessing the competitive advantage potential of cross-business strategic fit among the company's various business units involves
a. examining a company's costs relative to the costs of its chief rivals in the industry.
b. evaluating how much benefit a diversified company can gain from cross-business value chain matchups and resource sharing.
c. considering what competitive value can be generated from a strategic fit.
d. determining if there are opportunities to exploit outsourcing opportunities by a diversified company's lineup of businesses.
e. evaluating a diversified company's profitability relative to its competitors.
3. A chocolate making company in Alabama purchased the distributor that sell to the supermarkets. This is an example of
A) Horizontal Integration
B) Forward Vertical integration
C) Backward Vertical Intergration
D) Keiretsu
E) None of the above
4. If we consider Company A ( Milk producers) as the focal company, Then Walmart is located ________ Company A
A) Upstream to
B) Downstream to
C) Internal Within
D) Horizontally Integrated with
E) None of the above
5. Which of the following are among the four basic types of facility layouts?
I. process layout II. sustainable layout III. balanced layout
A. I. and II. are types of facility layouts
B. I. II. and III. are all types of facility layouts
C. I. only is a type of facility layout
D. II. and III. are types of facility layouts
E. III. only is a type of facility layout