Whether Buyer Bargaining Power Poses a Strong or Weak Source

question 63

Multiple Choice

Whether buyer bargaining power poses a strong or weak source of competitive pressure on industry members depends in part on

• A) whether most buyers possess roughly equal or varying degrees of bargaining power and leverage.
• B) how many buyers are engaged in collaborative partnerships with sellers.
• C) whether entry barriers are high or low and the size of the pool of likely entry candidates.
• D) whether the overall quality of the items being furnished by industry members is rising or falling.
• E) whether demand-supply conditions represent a buyer's market or a seller's market.

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