A competitive strategy to be the low-cost provider in an industry typically does not work well when:
a) emergent strategies are required to respond to changes in competitor power.
b) industry newcomers use low introductory prices to attract buyers and build a customer base.
c) price competition among rival sellers is especially vigorous.
d) commodity-based product prevails and minimal differentiation exists.
e) buyers incur low costs in switching their purchases from one seller or brand to another.

a) emergent strategies are required to respond to changes in competitor power.

Explanation:

Competitive strategy is the strategy used gain competitive advantage and outperform competitor in the market. Low cost provider is one of the strategy of competitive strategy that outperform competitor by selling goods at very low cost and competitors are not able to sustain in the market or start making loss, this also help gain maximum market share as buyer switch their purchases from one seller or brand to another. This strategy does not work as sometime emergent strategies are required to respond to changes in competitor power. Competitor sometime change their strategy to high quality product, bundling the products, etc, in this case emergent strategies are required.

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