Determining How Strong the Threat of Substitutes Will Be Entails

Multiple Choice

Determining how strong the threat of substitutes will be entails

A) identifying the relative price/performance relationship of the substitutes, the switching costs, and the overall buyer demand for the substitute.
B) identifying the attractiveness of other industries.
C) measuring Coke as a substitute for Pepsi and applying dynamic simulation modeling techniques.
D) adopting a substitute product concentration factor to the buyer volume.
E) judging whether industry members are capable of self-manufacturing their products.