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BSG COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM LATEST 2026
ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||VERIFIED EXAM!!!
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Brinker International operates restaurants in several
different segments of the casual dining market. This is
a. a relatively high level of diversification.
b. an example of product diversification.
c. unlikely to reduce variability in the firm's profitability
since the restaurants are all in the casual dining category.
d. an example of related linked diversification. - Answer-b.
an example of product diversification.
On the most basic level, corporate-level strategy is
concerned with ____ and how to manage these
businesses.
a. whether the firm should invest in global or domestic
businesses
b. what product markets and businesses the firm should
be in
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c. whether the portfolio of businesses should generate
immediate above-average returns or should be troubled
businesses which will create above-average returns only
after restructuring
d. whether to integrate backward or forward. - Answer-b.
what product markets and businesses the firm should be
in
Which acquisition would be considered the LEAST
related?
a. a candy manufacturer purchases a chemical laboratory
specializing in food flavorings.
b. a chain of garden centers acquires a landscape
architecture firm.
c. a hospital acquires a long-term care nursing home.
d. an upscale "white-tablecloth" restaurant chain acquires
a travel agency - Answer-d. an upscale "white-tablecloth"
restaurant chain acquires a travel agency
The more "constrained" the relatedness of diversification,
a. the less likely the firm's portfolio of businesses will
reduce the firm's variability in profitability.
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b. the wider the variation in the portfolio of businesses
owned by the firm.
c. the more links there are among the businesses owned
by an organization.
d. lower the proportion of total organizational revenue
derived from the dominant-business. - Answer-c. the more
links there are among the businesses owned by an
organization.
Which of the following is NOT a limit to vertical
integration?
a. bureaucratic costs
b. the loss of flexibility through investment in specific
technologies
c. capacity balance and coordination problems from
changes in demand
d. imitation of core technology by potential competitors -
Answer-d. imitation of core technology by potential
competitors
Horizontal acquisitions in the video rental industry are
typically intended to
a. take advantage of innovations created by the other firm.
BSG COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAM LATEST 2026
ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||VERIFIED EXAM!!!
(100% VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+|
||PROFESSOR VERIFIED|| ||NEWEST EXAM!!!||
Brinker International operates restaurants in several
different segments of the casual dining market. This is
a. a relatively high level of diversification.
b. an example of product diversification.
c. unlikely to reduce variability in the firm's profitability
since the restaurants are all in the casual dining category.
d. an example of related linked diversification. - Answer-b.
an example of product diversification.
On the most basic level, corporate-level strategy is
concerned with ____ and how to manage these
businesses.
a. whether the firm should invest in global or domestic
businesses
b. what product markets and businesses the firm should
be in
,2|Page
c. whether the portfolio of businesses should generate
immediate above-average returns or should be troubled
businesses which will create above-average returns only
after restructuring
d. whether to integrate backward or forward. - Answer-b.
what product markets and businesses the firm should be
in
Which acquisition would be considered the LEAST
related?
a. a candy manufacturer purchases a chemical laboratory
specializing in food flavorings.
b. a chain of garden centers acquires a landscape
architecture firm.
c. a hospital acquires a long-term care nursing home.
d. an upscale "white-tablecloth" restaurant chain acquires
a travel agency - Answer-d. an upscale "white-tablecloth"
restaurant chain acquires a travel agency
The more "constrained" the relatedness of diversification,
a. the less likely the firm's portfolio of businesses will
reduce the firm's variability in profitability.
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b. the wider the variation in the portfolio of businesses
owned by the firm.
c. the more links there are among the businesses owned
by an organization.
d. lower the proportion of total organizational revenue
derived from the dominant-business. - Answer-c. the more
links there are among the businesses owned by an
organization.
Which of the following is NOT a limit to vertical
integration?
a. bureaucratic costs
b. the loss of flexibility through investment in specific
technologies
c. capacity balance and coordination problems from
changes in demand
d. imitation of core technology by potential competitors -
Answer-d. imitation of core technology by potential
competitors
Horizontal acquisitions in the video rental industry are
typically intended to
a. take advantage of innovations created by the other firm.
