A Company's Value Chain

question 31

Multiple Choice

A company's value chain

• A)consists of the primary activities that it performs in seeking to deliver value to shareholders in the form of higher dividends and a higher stock price.
• B)depicts the internally performed activities associated with creating and enhancing the company's competitive assets.
• C)consists of two broad categories of activities: the primary activities that create customer value and the requisite support activities that facilitate and enhance the performance of the primary activities.
• D)concerns the basic process the company goes through in performing R&D and developing new products.
• E)consists of the series of steps a company goes through to develop a new product,get it produced and into the marketplace,and then start collecting revenues and earning a profit.

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Definitions:

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the magnitude of a phenomenon, used to indicate the size of an effect or difference.

Sample

A subset of individuals from a larger population used to conduct research or test theories.

Correlation Coefficient

A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which two or more variables fluctuate together. A higher absolute value suggests a stronger relationship.

Restriction Of Range

A problem when scores on a variable are limited to a small subset of their possible values; this makes it more difficult to identify relationships of the variable to other variables of interest.