Problem: You are the owner of a French-Japanese fusion food truck and mobile catering company. Instead of entering into an alliance or partnership with a local restaurateur to establish a bricks-and-mortar location downtown, you decide to merge with C'est La Sushi, a regional chain of French-Japanese fusion restaurants. What are the reasons for preferring a merger to an alliance or partnership? Explain the other organizational mechanisms that are also preferable to alliances.