The best strategic alliances:
A. are highly selective, focusing on particular value chain activities and on obtaining a particular competitive benefit, thereby enabling the firm to build on its strengths and to learn.
B. are those whose purpose is to create an industry key success factor.
C. are those which help a company move quickly from one strategic group to another.
D. involve joining forces in R&D to develop new technologies cheaper than a company could develop the technology on its own.
E. aim at raising an industry's barriers to entry.
Answer: are highly selective, focusing on particular value chain activities and on obtaining a particular competitive benefit, thereby enabling the firm to build on its strengths and to learn.