If Digipics Were to Agree to Spend a Significant Amount

question 72

Multiple Choice

If Digipics were to agree to spend a significant amount of money to establish a new assembly line for a large client, PicPro, that has unique needs that would make this assembly line largely useless for any other customer, the funds Digipics spent in establishing this line would be an example of

• A) forward vertical integration.
• B) backward vertical integration.
• C) a transaction-specific investment.
• D) opportunism.

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