At Which Stage in the Buying Decision Process Will a Firm

question 49

Multiple Choice

At which stage in the buying decision process will a firm visit potential suppliers to assess their facilities?

• A)problem recognition
• B)information search
• C)evaluation of alternatives
• D)purchase decision

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Definitions:

Passive Continental Margin

A region where the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate boundary occurs.

Oceanic Ridge

Underwater mountain systems formed by plate tectonics, consisting of continuous volcanic mountain chains in the ocean.

Trench

A narrow, steep-sided, elongate depression of the deep seafloor, formed by bending down of a subducting oceanic plate at a convergent plate boundary; includes the deepest parts of the ocean.

Trench Rollback

Process by which a dense oceanic plate subducts into the asthenosphere, sinks, and tends to bend or roll away from the island arc.