The correct answer is: "allowing goods to be shipped further".
The spread of the internal combustion engine allowed to developed faster means of transport with great capacity, which enabled to transport large amounts of goods at a low cost. Companies were able to cheaply transport their products to further places, therefore the markets where they could operate widened significantly. A progressive market integration process took place as technologies allowed the development of more efficient production and transportation systems.
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Vertical integration is a manner of organizing the supply chain of a company, in which the firm owns the facilities where the different parts of the production process are performed (obtention of raw materials, intermediate transformations, final transformation, etc), instead of buying intermediate goods or raw materials from suppliers, to subsequently produce their own products.
Vertical integration requires extremely high levels of investment, but if a firm can afford to follow this strategy, it will experience a drastic cost reduction and productivity improvements in its production process. Vertical integration enhances the produdction capacity of a firm, and allows it to reach <u>economies of scale. </u>
I think it would be Historiography
Sorry if I’m not right.
