Why did business leaders begin the practice of vertical integration?
a. big companies could grow by merging with other companies or acquiring them
b. factory workers could start in low positions and work their way up to management.
c. large corporations could control the cycle of a product from creation to sale,
d. small companies could grow so that they could compete with the larger companies,

Business leaders begin the practice of vertical integration so that large corporations could control the cycle of a product from creation to sale.

Option C

Explanation:

Vertical integration is a blend of horizontal integration. Here many horizontal rows are involved as manufacturing & services unit or supply chain responsible for different products but work for common goal. Vertical integration is a setup which involves company's supply chain and owned by itself only i.e under single corporation.

Hold up problems can be prohibited by such integrations while expansion can bring cons also like anti-competitiveness and hindrance free competition in an open marketplace. For example Alphabet which is conglomerate, by becoming parent company for Google and several former's Google subsidiaries.

the right answer is the end of world war ii

after the end of a global wwii all the nations involved, in an attempt to create an organization to maintain world peace. this agreement would work settling international disputes via negotiation and arbitration instead of leading the issues escalate to another war.

answer; (d) i believe that the correct answer is americans finally ran out of ammunition;