Toyota Heavily Uses a Strategic Network of Vertical Relationships

question 100

Multiple Choice

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

• A) interdependent.
• B) rivalrous.
• C) creative.
• D) complementary.

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