Porter’s five forces model assumes all of the following except select one: a. organizational decision makers are rational and committed to acting in the firm’s best interests. b. firms in given industries, or given industry segments, are assumed to control similar strategically relevant resources. c. resources to implement strategies are firm-specific and attached to firms over the long-term. d. the external environment is assumed to impose pressures and constraints that determine the strategies that result in above-average returns.

Which result is a positive aspect of globalization?

Cosmetic profits. sally is the executive vice president of big name cosmetics company. through important and material, nonpublic information, she learns that the company is soon going to purchase a smaller chain of stores. it is expected that stock in big name cosmetics will rise dramatically at that point. sally immediately buys a number of shares of her company's stock. she also tells her friend alice about the expected purchase of stores. alice wanted to purchase stock in the company but lacked the funds with which to do so. although she did not have the funds in bank a, alice decided to draw a check on bank a and deposit the check in bank b and then proceed to write a check on bank b to cover the purchase of the stock. she hoped that she would have sufficient funds to deposit before the check was presented for payment. of which of the following offenses, if any, is alice guilty of by buying stock?

How do communism and socialism differ in terms of the role that government plays in the economy ?