Answer:
In the absence of technological innovation, massive capital investments yielded diminishing marginal returns.
Explanation:
The economy of the Soviet Union was a command economy where the government decided how resources would be allocated. The four factors of production are land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship. In a command economy, entrepreneurship is virtually nonexistent, so that leaves three factors: land, labor and capital.
The government allocated a lot of resources into increasing the capital factor, but capital factor will always yield diminishing marginal returns unless new technological innovations are developed. During many years, the Soviet Union was the technological leader of the world, but as time passed and with a complete absence of entrepreneurship, technological advances halted.
Personally if I were to answer this base on my own polite opinion, if a document reaches me, and it requires me to perform some action, I would do it immediately if it <span>seems important but not urgent.
The answer is letter B then.</span>
"There are fewer close substitutes for the product your team supports" will improve your bargaining position with customers.
<u>Option: B</u>
<u>Explanation:</u>
Bargaining is the procedure which is preferred by citizens not only with street shops but it is famous internationally too, where defense, economic trade deal, etc are signed between two different nations to corporate and shake hand of unity. Bargaining is more effective when one allow seller to know that the party itself have more substitutes if the product is not provided by the seller in appropriate rate.
For an instance, if India need to buy some rolling defense helicopters for nation from Russia but prices are high and United States is providing same material with lower price or may be with better rewards on buying from them.