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Managers at Xerox displayed very little interest in a new Internet technology that internal scientists at Xerox's PARC division had developed. However, several years later, when an external company developed a similar technology, Xerox, which was considering acquiring the company, responded favorably to the technology idea. This situation is an example of managers prioritizing a(n):

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