According to Alfred Chandler
A) high-tech industries are defined by "paths of learning."
B) companies spring from an individual entrepreneur's knowledge, which then evolves into organizational knowledge.
C) once a corporation has built its learning base to the point where it has become a core company in its industry, entrepreneurial start-ups are rarely able to successfully enter.
D) organizational strengths derive from learned capabilities.
E) all of the above

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All of the options listed are perspectives put forth by Alfred Chandler. He emphasized the importance of "paths of learning" in high-tech industries, the evolution of organizational knowledge from the expertise of individual entrepreneurs, the difficulty of entrepreneurial start-ups in competing with established core companies, and the importance of learned capabilities for organizational strengths.