A Diversified Company Has a Parenting Advantage When

question 36

Multiple Choice

A diversified company has a parenting advantage when

• A) it is more able than other companies to boost the combined performance of its individual businesses through high-level guidance, general oversight, and other corporate-level contributions.
• B) it is more able than other companies to create an extensive collaborative effort among different specialties among different geographic locations.
• C) it results in supporting short-term economic shareholder value.
• D) managing a set of fundamentally similar businesses operations in fundamentally similar industries and inert environments.
• E) All of these.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis in statistical analysis that assumes no significant effect or difference exists between specified populations or parameters.

Two-Way Table

A tabular method to display the frequencies of occurrences of variables that are classified according to two categorical dimensions.

Association

The relationship or correlation between two or more variables or factors in a study.

Chi-Square Test

A statistical method used to assess the differences between categorical variables in a contingency table.