The Best Strategic Alliances

Multiple Choice

The best strategic alliances

A) are highly selective, focusing on particular value chain activities and on obtaining a particular competitive benefit.
B) are those whose purpose is to create an industry key success factor.
C) are those that help a company move quickly from one strategic group to another.
D) involve joining forces in R&D to develop new technologies cheaper than a company could develop the technology on its own.
E) aim at raising an industry's barriers to entry.