Many Companies Have a Tight Integration Among Their Value-Creating Activities

question 76

True/False

Many companies have a tight integration among their value-creating activities and have implemented just-in-time manufacturing. The textbook example of Atlas Door suggests that this is a competitive advantage, but it is easily imitated and therefore may not be sustainable in the long run.

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Definitions:

Pleiotropy

A genetic phenomenon where a single gene influences multiple phenotypic traits, which can be seemingly unrelated.

Affects

Refers to the experience of feeling or emotion, especially as it influences behavior and thoughts.

Traits

Characteristics or features of organisms passed from parents to offspring through genes.

Heterozygous

Referring to having two different alleles of a particular gene, one inherited from each parent.