In Japan, the Center Firm in a Strategic Network of Vertical

question 88

Multiple Choice

In Japan, the center firm in a strategic network of vertical relationships might be expected to undertake all of the following EXCEPT

• A) reducing its transaction costs by promoting longer-term contracts with subcontractors.
• B) enabling engineers in upstream companies to have better communication with those companies with whom it has contracts for services.
• C) encouraging subcontractors to modernize their facilities and providing them with technical and financial assistance to do so.
• D) decreasing communications between network members to reduce communication costs.

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Definitions:

Illusory Correlation

The perception of a relationship between two variables when none exists.

Self-Serving Attribution

A common tendency to attribute successes to personal characteristics and failures to external factors.

Internal Attribution

The process of explaining one's own or others' behavior as due to personal, intrinsic factors.

External-Unstable

A causation attribution in psychology where an individual attributes events to causes outside themselves that are variable or subject to change.