Explain how a company would decide to use a horizontal merger and acquisition, vertical integration, or strategic alliance initiative. You might want to use an advantages/disadvantages approach for your response. In what part(s) of a linear programming formulation would the decision variables be stated?
a. objective function and the left-hand side of each constraint
b. objective function and the right-hand side of each constraint
c. the objective function only
d. the left-hand side of each constraint only