Which One of the Following Is NOT One of the Ways

question 138

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following is NOT one of the ways a company can strive to gain competitive advantage (or offset domestic disadvantages) by expanding into foreign markets?

• A) By competing in both developed and emerging country markets and/or by selling direct to foreign buyers via the company's website.
• B) By dispersing its activities among various countries in a manner that lowers costs.
• C) By transferring competitively valuable competencies and capabilities from its domestic operations to its operations in foreign markets.
• D) By dispersing its activities among various countries in a manner that helps achieve greater product differentiation and/or working to deepen/broaden its resource strengths and capabilities.
• E) By using cross-border coordination of its strategic moves in ways that a domestic-only competitor cannot.

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Definitions:

Emergent Property

A property or quality that arises as an effect of complex interactions and interdependencies among components within a system, which cannot be predicted solely from knowledge of the individual parts.

Independent Variable

The variable in an experiment that is manipulated or changed to observe its effect on the dependent variable.

Dependent Variable

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Experimental Group

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