A Company's Menu of Strategic Choices to Supplement Its Decision

A company's menu of strategic choices to supplement its decision to employ one of the five basic competitive strategies does not include

A) whether and when to employ defensive strategies to protect the company's market position.
B) whether to integrate backward or forward into more stages of the industry value chain.
C) whether to employ a preemptive strike type of green ocean strategy.
D) whether and when to go on the offensive and initiate aggressive strategic moves to improve the company's market position.
E) whether to bolster the company's market position via acquisition or merger and/or whether to enter into strategic alliances or partnership arrangements with other enterprises.