問21
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他社との組織的統合をすることなく，自社にない技術や自社の技術の弱い部分を他社の優れた技術で補完したい。このときに用いる戦略として，適切なものはどれか。
平成29年度 秋期 ITパスポート試験 問21
ストラテジ系経営戦略マネジメント › 経営戦略手法
This question's explanation and your answers so far.
解説
問 21
Incorrectア
M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) is the merging and acquiring of companies — a strategy that organizationally integrates the other company and absorbs it as part of your own. It directly contradicts the question's condition of acting 'without organizational integration,' so it is wrong.
Incorrectイ
MBO (Management Buyout) is a method in which the current management buys up the company's shares or a business division to take control of it. It has nothing to do with complementing your company with another company's superior technology, and is unrelated to the question's aim, so it is wrong.
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正解 The correct answer is 'ウ Alliance.' An alliance (business tie-up) is a management strategy in which several companies cooperate under a contract without merging their organizations or capital. Its defining feature is that each company keeps its independence while bringing together their respective strengths, which fits the question's condition exactly: complementing technologies the company lacks, or its weaker technology, with another company's superior technology without organizational integration. Technology partnerships, joint development, and OEM supply are concrete examples, letting a company make up for missing technology without absorbing or merging with the other party.
Incorrectエ
A spin-off is a strategy that separates a business division or subsidiary from the company and turns it into an independent, separate company. Its direction is to carve technology out rather than to 'complement' and take it in, which does not match the question's condition, so it is wrong.
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- Alliance (business tie-up) = a management strategy in which companies stay independent and cooperate under a contract without merging organization or capital, complementing each other's strengths (such as technology one side lacks).
- M&A (mergers and acquisitions) involves organizational integration, forming a contrast with an alliance. Telling the two apart by 'whether or not there is integration' is exactly the point being tested here.
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