Contract manufacturing: Select one: a. enhances a firm’s like Nucleon's in-house capabilities to invent new proteins. b. allows firms like Nucleon to meet the scale of market demand by committing to long-term capital investments. c. enables a firm to tap the greater economies of scale of the contract manufacturer. d. decreases organizational responsiveness to the environment. Clear my choice

China's new 5 percent tax on disposable wooden chopsticks, reflecting concerns about deforestation, has been praised by environmentalists. the move is hitting hard at the japanese, who consume 25 billion set of wooden chopsticks annually. almost all of the chopsticks used in japan come from china. the reuirements for chinese manufacturers of wooden chopsticks to pay the 5 percent tax is a factor in their external environment.