A Drawback of Short-Term Contracting as an Alternative to Making

question 14

Multiple Choice

A drawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is that

• A) it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent.
• B) the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality.
• C) it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide.
• D) the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.

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