Failure to Understand the Beliefs and Expectations of Stakeholders

question 9

Multiple Choice

Failure to understand the beliefs and expectations of stakeholders:

• A) Causes a company's profits to increase in the short run.
• B) Causes a company's profits to decrease in the short run.
• C) Causes the performance-expectations gap to grow larger.
• D) Increases the chance of a corporate buy-out.

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