Ever-Improving Levels of Efficiency Enhance Profit Margins for a Cost-Leader

question 9

Multiple Choice

Ever-improving levels of efficiency enhance profit margins for a cost-leader. This effects which of the five forces of industry structure most directly?

• A) Potential entrants
• B) Substitutes
• C) Buyer power
• D) Supplier power

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