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Uncommon card · Science
Horizontal integration, an Uncommon card
Horizontal integration is the process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same level of the value chain, in the same industry.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 109
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 109 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Horizontal integration quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Horizontal integration card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A ______ may do this via internal expansion or through mergers and acquisitions.
Answer
company. A company may do this via internal expansion or through mergers and acquisitions. From the Horizontal integration article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jean Tirole. Jean Tirole 68 · Horizontal integration 63 · Enol 59 · Ceroxylon quindiuense 50 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A company may do this via internal expansion or through mergers and acquisitions.
- The process can lead to monopoly if a company captures the vast majority of the market for that product or service.
- Benefits of horizontal integration include: increasing economies of scale, expanding an existing market, and improving product differentiation.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Horizontal integration article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Horizontal integration
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Horizontal integration (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Integration.png : Martin Sauter derivative work: Andrew c ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
