For a Core Competence to Be a Viable Basis for the Corporation

question 69

Multiple Choice

For a core competence to be a viable basis for the corporation strengthening a new business unit,there are three requirements.Which one of the following is not one of these requirements?

• A) The competence must help the business gain strength relative to its competition.
• B) The new business must be similar to existing businesses to benefit from a core competence.
• C) The collection of competencies should be unique, so that they cannot be easily imitated.
• D) The new business must have an established large market share.

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Definitions:

Intervals

Ranges or spans of values within which a variable or an observation can lie, often used in the context of measurement scales or confidence estimates.

Overlap

The extent to which two or more groups or distributions share common elements or regions.

Frequency Distribution

A summary of how often different values occur within a dataset, often represented in a table or graph.

Interval Data

Interval data is a type of quantitative data where the intervals between values are meaningful, but there is no true zero point, allowing for the measurement of differences but not relative sizes or ratios.