A fitness electronics company is a first-mover in wearable fitness trackers. Its innovative everyday activity and exercise bracelet has created a monopoly for its product. Executives are apprehensive about the company's ability to maintain its competitive advantage because they know that rival companies have competent research and development skills and access to complementary assets. These rivals are considered:

a. barriers to imitation.
b. first-movers.
c. complementary assets.
d. capable competitors.

Stormie zanzibar owns a bakery in the fictitious country of olombia. each month the government’s market ministry mails her a large list of the regulated price of goods which include products like bread, muffins and flat bread. the list also dictates the types of goods she can sell at the bakery and what she is to charge. because of the regulations placed on these goods, stormie has increased her production of sweets, pies, cakes, croissants and buns and decreased her supply of breads, muffins and flat bread. she has taken these steps because the sweet goods’ prices are not government controlled. stormie zanzibar lives under what type of economy?