Reference no: EM133892895
Questions
1. Vertical integration is integrating preceding or successive business processes or activities previously conducted inside companies.
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2. Insourcing is another name of vertical integration.
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3. Backward integration and forward integration are the principal two types of horizontal integration.
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False
4. If your company is a coffee been farming company and your company acquires a retail coffeehouse like Starbucks, your company undertakes forward.
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5. If your company undertakes forward integration, the integration may be toward upstream activity.
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False
6. You may want to outsource a unique activity in your value chain if the unique activity is neither your core competency nor firm-specific.
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7. If your company is a coffee been farming company and your company acquires a retail coffeehouse like Starbucks, your company undertakes forward integration.
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False
8. If your company undertakes forward integration, the integration may be toward upstream activity.
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False
9. You may want to outsource a unique activity in your value chain if the unique activity is neither your core competency nor firm-specific.
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False
10. Samsung does not outsource marketing activities; we may say that marketing activity can be neither its core competency nor firm-specific.
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False
11. Tesla's factory in Shanghai, China would be an example of offshoring.
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False
12. Reshoring means moving an oftshored activity to a different foreign location.
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False
13. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is the opposite concept of captive sourcing.
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False