The Partnering for Success Feature in Chapter 8 Focuses on Buying

question 28

Multiple Choice

The Partnering for Success feature in Chapter 8 focuses on buying groups, and recommends that small businesses seek out buying groups to participate in. What is a "buying group" in the context of the feature?

• A) A partnership that bands small businesses together to attain volume discounts on common products and services that they buy
• B) A partnership that bands small businesses together to collectively make the commitment to "buy local" at every available opportunity
• C) A partnership that bands small businesses together to get the best prices possible from foreign importers and manufacturers
• D) A partnership that bands small businesses together to get the best possible terms from finance companies
• E) A partnership that bands small businesses together to get the best possible rates on property and liability insurance

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Definitions:

Competitive Exclusion

A principle stating that two species competing for the same limiting resources cannot coexist at constant population values.

Character Displacement

The phenomenon where differences among similar species whose distributions overlap geographically are accentuated in regions where the species co-occur, but are minimized or lost where the species' distributions do not overlap.

Primary Succession

An ecological succession that occurs on land that has not previously been inhabited by plants; no soil is present initially. See succession. Compare with secondary succession.

Zooplankton

The nonphotosynthetic organisms present in plankton (e.g., protozoa, tiny crustaceans) and the larval stages of many animals. See plankton. Compare with phytoplankton.