Brown Foods Inc

Multiple Choice

Brown Foods Inc., a leading chocolate producer, anticipated that the prices of cocoa beans would double in less than three years.This would disrupt the availability of cocoa in the industry.Thus, Brown Foods Inc.decided to purchase cocoa plantations in Ghana.As predicted, the prices of cocoa increased twofold.Because of the company-owned cocoa plantations, Brown Foods Inc.was able to sustain its competitive advantage in turbulent times.Which of the following isolating mechanisms does this scenario best illustrate?

A) Social complexity
B) Causal ambiguity
C) Time compression diseconomies
D) Better expectations of future resource value