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Chapter 15.2, Problem 3QS2
Summary Introduction
To Determine:
Why some firms go for buying products and not make it in-house.
Introduction:
The decision of make-or-buy: A company has to decide whether it has to make a component or it has to buy a component from sources external to it.
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