Toyota Heavily Uses a Strategic Network of Vertical Relationships

question 24

Multiple Choice

Toyota heavily uses a strategic network of vertical relationships. Toyota enables engineers in supplier firms to communicate easily with companies with which Toyota has contracts for services. This results in the suppliers and Toyota (the strategic center firm) being more:

• A) interdependent.
• B) competitive with one another.
• C) creative.
• D) complementary.

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Definitions:

Axon Hillock

The cone-shaped area of a neuron where the axon originates and where action potentials are initiated.

Telodendria

Fine, thread-like extensions of axons and dendrites at the terminus of neurons, thought to play a role in the transmission of electrical signals to adjacent neurons.

Nucleus

A membrane-bound organelle found in eukaryotic cells that contains the cell's chromosomes, thereby functioning as the cell's command center for gene expression and DNA replication.

Pyramidal Cell

Distinctively shaped interneuron found in the cerebral cortex.