According to a 1991 report by McKinsey & Co., problems of alliances between Western and Japanese firms were related to all of the following factors except:

A) objective levels of performance.
B) a feeling of mutual disillusionment.
C) difference in expectations.
D) balance between partners.
E) frictional loss.


A

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