Firms A and B have several strategic alliances with each other and so have Firms B and C. Now, Firms A and C are in a serious talk about forming a strategic alliance although they have never allied before. The reason for A and C to form a strategic alliance is best described as _______.
A. reputation
B. personal network
C. past collaboration experience
D. structural embeddedness
Ans: D. structural embeddedness
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Industrial products are normally more complex than consumer products. It means that industrial companies are more likely to be:
A) product focused rather than customer focused. B) customer focused rather than product focused. C) market focused rather than customer focused. D) technology focused rather than market focused.
A working prototype that is implemented to design and define various functionalities of the project and show customers the friendly software interface and the story line of functionalities involved in the project best describes the SDLC
A) analysis phase. B) systems investigation phase. C) preliminary design phase. D) testing phase.