Which of the following is true concerning purely competitive industries? A. Economic profits will persist in the long run if consumer demand is strong

Afactory owner wants his workers to produce as many widgets as they can so he pays his workers based on how many widgets they produce. however, in order to make sure that the workers do not rush and produce a large number of poorly made widgets, he checks the widgets at random at various stages of their manufacture. if a defect is found in a widget, the pay of the entire section of the factory responsible for that defect is docked. how is this factory owner seeking to solve the agency conflict problem in this case?

Stacy is preparing a product presentation with customer, marketing, and technical content. she will first present it to an engineering audience mainly interested in technical product details. what should she do? select the best option. hide the marketing content slides for the engineering audience. save a new version and delete unwanted slides for this audience. cut and paste all the unwanted slides to the end. create a custom slide show for multiple audiences.

Phoenix guitars is interested in pursuing backward integration to take greater ownership of the extraction of raw materials and production of components used in its signature line of guitars. although this approach would lower the overall cost of producing a guitar, the costs associated with producing electronic pickupsfor sound amplification are far greater than those associated with sourcing pickups from a reliable supplier. which of the following approaches is likely to produce superior results? a) invest in vertical integration despite the cost of producing pickups. b) abandon the idea of vertical integration entirely. c) pursue taper integration. d) introduce a budget line of guitars to diversify the firm's offerings.