Some of Toyota's Competitive Advantage Is Due to Its Superior

question 112

Multiple Choice

Some of Toyota's competitive advantage is due to its superior ability to manage the design,engineering and manufacturing of its automobiles.Despite the fact that some of its products could be licensed for production by another company it does not do so because _____________.

• A) Toyota does not want to lose control over its technology
• B) Toyota are strong believers in the internalization theory
• C) Toyota does not want to share profits and it is a large enough company to enter every market
• D) another company could not be as efficient a producer of cars as Toyota
• E) all of these answers are correct

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