9Build strategies - which typically require leaders with strong personal visions for a firm's future, rather than the negotiated compromise of the team-based decision - may be most closely adhered to when implemented in the context of a clear strategic vision of an individual leader, rather than through the practice of decision-sharing.

Q34

The author includes the quotation in the highlighted text of the passage most probably in order to

A) lend support to the claim that firms utilizing harvest strategies may be more likely to adhere to their strategic plans

B) suggest a reason that many managers of large firm prefer harvest strategies to build strategies

C) provide an example of a firm that adhered to its strategic plan because of the degree of its managers' commitment

D) demonstrate that managers implementing harvest strategies generally have better strategic options than do managers implementing build strategies

E) give an example of a large firm that successfully implemented a harvest strategy