You Work for a Consulting Agency

question 135

Multiple Choice

You work for a consulting agency. A client has approached your company to get advice. They will be creating widgets, and want to do a good deal of their business on the Web. They're interested in discussing the world of electronic commerce. You are assigned to help answer their questions.
-You realize from talking with your client that their industry has, up to now, been slow to adopt Web and Internet technologies. This means that the introduction of your client's company into their industry will be a good example of ____.

• A) channel conflict
• B) disintermediation
• C) reintermediation
• D) a value-added network

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Definitions:

Formal Reasoning

The ability to think logically and systematically about abstract concepts and hypothetical situations, typically developing during adolescence.

Nonconscious Responding

Processes that occur without conscious awareness or control, including physiological responses and some behaviors that are automatic or habitual.

"Reasonable."

Being in accordance with logic, fairness, or moderate estimation; often used to describe actions or thoughts that are justified under the circumstances.

Jerome Kagan

A developmental psychologist known for his work on temperament and the role it plays in emotional and psychological development.