Refer to the Scenario Below to Answer the Following Questions

question 4

Multiple Choice

Refer to the scenario below to answer the following questions.
Clubhouse Gourmet -A- (Scenario)
Imagine that you are the president of Clubhouse Gourmet, a successful chain of fast-food restaurants with 60 locations across Canada. The success you have experienced in the last five years has you considering various options about what to do next with the business. Should you continue to expand the business at the current rate? Or perhaps open new and different restaurants? What should you do?
-You have decided to purchase a competing chain of fast-food restaurants called Sandwich King. Once the acquisition is completed, you plan to combine their operations with those of Clubhouse Gourmet. This is an example of which growth strategy?

• A) concentration
• B) horizontal integration
• C) unrelated diversification
• D) related differentiation
• E) vertical integration

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Definitions:

Aggressive Behaviors

Actions intended to cause harm or force upon others, either physically or emotionally, as a means of asserting dominance, expressing frustration, or achieving a goal.

Heteronomous Morality

A stage in child development described by Piaget where children believe rules are unchangeable and morality is dictated by external authority figures.

Objective Consequences

Outcomes or results of an action that are observable and can be measured independently of personal feelings or opinions.

Scale Errors

Young children’s inappropriate use of an object due to their failure to consider information about the object’s size.