Even Though JetShoes Is Doing Fine on the East Coast

question 50

Multiple Choice

Even though JetShoes is doing fine on the East Coast in the shoe gliding market,it has decided to collaborate with FastShoes before tackling the West Coast market and trying to compete with SunShoes who is currently the market leader on the West Coast.This is the pooling of

• A) supplementary resources.
• B) complementary resources.
• C) scarce resources.
• D) monopolistic resources.

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