The Chinese
civil-service system provided the Chinese empire steadiness for more than 2,000 years and provided one
of the main outlets for social mobility<span> in Chinese society. It later assisted as a model for
the civil-service systems that established in other Asian and Western countries.</span>.
D. The growth of empires across the entire region
<span>A. “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”</span>
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>
