Why Do Vertically Integrated Organisations Own and Often Manage Their

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Multiple Choice

Why do vertically integrated organisations own and often manage their upstream (or backward) suppliers?

• A) In order to create raw materials of a consistent quality
• B) In order to create a secure supply of raw materials
• C) To set up forward (or downstream) subsidiaries to distribute and market their products or services
• D) To use products or services themselves
• E) All of these responses are correct.

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Definitions:

Self-Monitoring

The process of paying close attention to one's own behavior and using these observations to shape behavior according to social cues and personal objectives.

In Vivo Observation

A method used by behaviourally oriented therapists to determine how environmental variables affect a behaviour of concern, in which a clinician may record a running narrative of events, using pencil and paper, video, or still camera, in the client’s everyday environment. More commonly, observations are made by participant observers, key people in the client’s environment, and reported to the clinician. See also analogue observational setting.

Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI)

An objective test of personality developed to help clinicians make diagnostic judgments within the multiaxial DSM system, especially in the personality disorders found on Axis II.

Personality Disorders

Mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the individual's culture.