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  • A. modified task
  • B. straight rebuy
  • C. new task
  • D. modified rebuy

Explanation: A straight rebuy is a routine repeat purchase made under existing terms, often from an approved supplier list.

Correct answer: straight rebuy
  • A. users
  • B. influencers
  • C. deciders
  • D. initiators

Explanation: Influencers provide information and affect the evaluation of alternatives without necessarily making the final choice.

Correct answer: influencers
  • A. straight rebuy
  • B. turned rebuy
  • C. new buy
  • D. purpose buying

Explanation: A straight rebuy is a routine repeat purchase in which the buyer generally continues with established suppliers and quality expectations.

Correct answer: straight rebuy
  • A. framing
  • B. outsourcing
  • C. off shoring
  • D. selling

Explanation: Framing presents an issue or service from a perspective that highlights the company’s strengths and shapes how customers interpret the…

Correct answer: framing
  • A. new decisions
  • B. modified purchases
  • C. fewest decision
  • D. most of the decision

Explanation: A new-task purchase is unfamiliar and carries substantial risk, so the buyer must make the greatest number of decisions about…

Correct answer: most of the decision
  • A. in-suppliers
  • B. out-suppliers
  • C. modified suppliers
  • D. new suppliers

Explanation: Out-suppliers are current outsiders trying to win business from the buyer, whereas in-suppliers are incumbent suppliers seeking to retain…

Correct answer: out-suppliers
  • A. relative buyers
  • B. price sensitive buyers
  • C. business markets
  • D. consumer markets

Explanation: Business markets involve organizations buying products or services for production, resale, or operational use, including purchases…

Correct answer: business markets
  • A. modified buyers
  • B. modified task
  • C. modified rebuy
  • D. modified buy

Explanation: A modified rebuy changes some aspect of an existing purchase and commonly brings additional participants from both the buying and…

Correct answer: modified rebuy
  • A. vertical coordination
  • B. horizontal coordination
  • C. contract coordination
  • D. selling coordination

Explanation: Vertical coordination links firms at different stages of the supply chain, such as a manufacturer and distributor, and can strengthen…

Correct answer: vertical coordination
  • A. highest benefit package
  • B. lowest benefit package
  • C. medium benefit package
  • D. initiating benefit package

Explanation: A business buyer evaluates the complete benefit package, including economic savings, technical performance and social or service…

Correct answer: highest benefit package
  • A. vertical investments
  • B. horizontal investments
  • C. specific investments
  • D. contractual investments

Explanation: Specific investments are expenditures designed for a particular value chain, buyer-seller relationship or organization and have less value…

Correct answer: specific investments
  • A. fewest decision
  • B. most of the decision
  • C. new decisions
  • D. modified purchases

Explanation: A straight rebuy repeats a routine purchase under existing specifications and supplier arrangements, so the buyer makes the fewest…

Correct answer: fewest decision
  • A. modified suppliers
  • B. new suppliers
  • C. in-suppliers
  • D. out-suppliers

Explanation: In-suppliers are the suppliers already serving the buyer and therefore try to protect their existing business during a modified rebuy.

Correct answer: in-suppliers
  • A. government markets
  • B. consumer markets
  • C. institutional markets
  • D. business markets

Explanation: Schools, nursing homes and prisons purchase goods and services to serve groups of people rather than to resell them for profit, so they…

Correct answer: institutional markets
  • A. corporate brand
  • B. competitor's brand
  • C. supplier's brand
  • D. initiator brand

Explanation: Recognizing the influence of personal relationships and external stakeholders in business buying encourages firms to build a strong…

Correct answer: corporate brand
  • A. adaption
  • B. adaptation
  • C. adoption
  • D. communication

Explanation: Adaptation means building flexibility into a plan so it can respond to unexpected events or changing conditions.

Correct answer: adaptation
  • A. geographical hubs
  • B. functional hubs
  • C. vertical hubs
  • D. horizontal hubs

Explanation: Functional hubs consist of businesses serving a particular function across several industries, such as advertising, media buying or energy…

Correct answer: functional hubs
  • A. buyers
  • B. suppliers
  • C. approvers
  • D. providers

Explanation: The buyer in a business buying centre helps define or negotiate product requirements and selects or deals with suppliers.

Correct answer: buyers
  • A. self-serving
  • B. opportunism
  • C. reduced opportunities
  • D. asset specify

Explanation: Opportunism is self-interest pursued through guile, including deliberately supplying less than an explicit or implicit agreement requires.

Correct answer: opportunism
  • A. new task
  • B. modified task
  • C. straight task
  • D. in-house task

Explanation: A new-task purchase occurs when an organization buys a product or service for the first time, so the decision usually requires extensive…

Correct answer: new task