Once a Company Has Decided to Employ One of the Five

question 12

Multiple Choice

Once a company has decided to employ one of the five basic competitive strategies,then it must also consider such additional strategic choices as

• A) whether and when to go on the offensive and initiate aggressive strategic moves to improve the company's market position.
• B) whether to outsource certain value chain activities or perform them in-house.
• C) whether to form strategic alliances and collaborative partnerships to add to its accumulation of resources and competitive capabilities.
• D) whether to integrate forward or backward into more stages of the industry value chain.
• E) All of these

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