1. What are the differences between explicit collaboration and implicit collaboration? Provide specific examples for both levels of collaboration.
2. What is insourcing? What are the differences between insourcing and outsourcing? Provide specific examples for both of the mainstreams and alternatives to collaboration.
3. When companies seek to control the key aspects of the value-delivery process, what kind of integration in terms of insourcing is preferred? Why? Answer with specific example.
4. Under what circumstances companies are in favor of horizontal integration? Why? Answer with specific example.