________ are established to evaluate a customer's creditworthiness and to determine the minimum requirements for extending credit to a customer

The Association of Specialty Surgical Practice has published a minimum fee schedule for services and distributed this schedule throughout the medical profession. What is Specialty Surgical encouraging?

a. bait pricing b. price fixing c. predatory pricing d. unfair trade practices

Michael Porter's value chain would identify which of the following as a support activity?

A) shipping out final products B) marketing products C) procurement D) servicing products E) operations