Question

According to your text, a firm can survive and succeed in the long run if it successfully develops strategies to confront five competitive forces that shape the structure of competition in its industry. When a firm strives to find ways to help its suppliers and customers reduce their costs or to increase the costs of their competitors, they are pursuing an alliance strategy.

A. True
B. False

Answer 1

The answer is "False".

Step-by-step explanation:

False, they are not following the alliance strategy because alliance strategy exhibits the process that works for mutual benefits. Alternatively, it occurs when at least two organizations join hands together for mutual benefit but in the question, a firm finds a way to increase the costs of its competitors. Therefore, this is not the case of alliance strategy.