Which of the Following Is NOT One of the Four

question 18

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT one of the four question areas Barney proposes in his VRIO framework used to evaluate a firm's key resources?

• A)durability
• B)organization
• C)rareness
• D)value
• E)imitability

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Definitions:

Stock Market

A public market for buying, selling, and trading stocks (shares) of publicly-held companies.

Alpha

A measure of the excess return of an investment relative to the return of a benchmark index.

Actual Return

The real gain or loss experienced on an investment, typically expressed as a percentage of the investment's initial cost.

Portfolio Beta

This measures the sensitivity of a portfolio's returns to changes in the market's returns, indicating the portfolio's overall exposure to market risk.