_________Is Not a Risk Associated with Outsourcing

question 140

Multiple Choice

_________is not a risk associated with outsourcing.

• A) Obtaining needed expertise
• B) Long term cost
• C) No easy exit
• D) Loss of control
• E) None of the above

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Definitions:

Decreasing-cost Industry

An industry in which costs per unit decrease as the scale of operation increases, often due to economies of scale.

Downsloping

A characteristic of certain economic graphs, such as the demand curve, indicating that as price decreases, quantity demanded increases.

Purely Competitive Firm

A business that operates in a market where there are many buyers and sellers, and it has no control over the market price of its product.

Economic Profit

The difference between a firm’s total revenue and its opportunity costs (including both explicit and implicit).