A company's stated core values and ethical principles are

a. typically tightly linked to its strategic vision and strategy.

b. important because of their role in ensuring that company executives will not engage in unethical behavior or behave in a manner that is contrary to the company's core values.

c. the best indicators of a company's social responsibility strategy.

d. meant to foster a work climate where company personnel share common and strongly held convictions about how the company's business is to be conducted and provide guidance in displaying the core values in their actions and behaviors.

e. strictly enforced in strong culture companies and weakly enforced in weak culture companies.

One strategic fit-based approach to related diversification would be to

a. diversify into new industries that present opportunities to transfer specialized expertise, technological know-how, or other valuable resources and capabilities from one business's value chain to another's.

b. expand into foreign markets where the firm currently does no business.

c. acquire rival firms that have broader product lines so as to give the company access to a wider range of buyer groups.

d. diversify into foreign markets where the firm has unrelated businesses.