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Resource Allocation at a Manufacturing Plant
A car manufacturing company needs to source a specific type of bolt for its assembly line. The plant manager is considering two options:
- Purchasing the bolts from an external supplier after comparing prices and quality from several different vendors.
- Directing the company's own in-house metalworking division to produce the required bolts, assigning the task to a specific team and providing them with the necessary raw materials from the company's inventory.
Analyze these two options. For each option, identify the primary mechanism used to allocate resources and explain the fundamental difference in how the economic decision is made.
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