The Principal Advantages of Strategic Alliances Over Vertical Integration or Horizontal

Multiple Choice

The principal advantages of strategic alliances over vertical integration or horizontal mergers/acquisitions are:

A) resource pooling and risk sharing,more adaptive response capabilities,and greater speed of deployment.
B) potential profitability of the alliance and related experience-curve economics.
C) the facilitation of best practices,more production capacity,and relevant synergistic savings.
D) the transactional and relational concept of operating practices and competencies.
E) E) material additions to a company's technological capabilities,strengthening of the firm's competitive position,and boosting of its profitability.