Carla agrees to try to sell frank's prize dog spike for him. carla does this as a favor to frank because she knows many professional dog breeders. carla may be best described as: group of answer choices a universal agent a gratuitous agent an agent who has an agency coupled with an interest a special agent none of the other choices

Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.