A) performing industry value chain activities previously performed by suppliers or other companies engaged in earlier stages of the value chain.
B) Linking with businesses within the array of value chain activities to eliminate competition and broaden the product offering.
C) capitalizing on company's underutilized managerial capabilities for achieving greater synergistic cost advantages.
D) reducing the opportunity for achieving greater product differentiation.
E) developing new skills and business capabilities.
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A) they involve collaboration with suppliers or distribution allies or when both parties conclude that continued collaboration is in their mutual interests.
B) the alliance involves partners based in countries with distinctly different cultures and consumer buying habits and preferences.
C) both partners are experienced with strategic alliances and routinely enter into collaborative agreements with firms in peripheral industries.
D) the alliance involves joining forces in R&D to develop new technologies cheaper than a company could develop the technology on its own.
E) each partner has considerable resource weaknesses in the marketplace.
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A) gain better access to end users,improve market awareness,and/or include the end user's purchasing experience as a differentiating feature.
B) the opportunity to capture the profits being earned by forward distribution allies (and thereby increase the company's own profits) .
C) reduce or eliminate disruptions in the delivery of the company's products to end users.
D) avoid channel conflict.
E) expand a company's geographic coverage.
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