According to the passage, prior to Bergh's study, research on the role of top executives of acquired companies in business acquisition success was limited in which of the following ways?

The passage suggests that Bergh and a proponent of the upper echelons perspective would be most likely to disagree over which of the following?

The resource-based view, as described in the passage, is based on which of the following ideas?

According to the passage, the research mentioned in the highlighted text suggests which of the following about lower-ranked top executives and postacquisition success?

Which of the following statements best describes the function of the last sentence of the passage?

The passage suggests that the opposition to banks in the South in the early nineteenth century stemmed in part from the perception that banks

The passage suggests that Paul Gilje would be most likely to agree with which of the following claims about the lending practices of the "earliest banks" (see the highlighted text)?

The passage suggests that the scholars mentioned in the highlighted text would argue that the reason banks tended not to fund manufacturing and transportation projects in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was that

The primary purpose of the passage is to

Which of the following, if true, would most tend to weaken the conclusions drawn from "some of this research" (the highlighted text)?