Earth Mother Leisure Wear had a mission to become the leading producer of environmentally friendly leggings, an emerging and in$-$demand category in the apparel industry. Its strategy involved leveraging a network of organic cotton farmers and suppliers of environmentally responsible synthetic materials to create a product that is durable, attractive, affordable, and $100\%$ recyclable. However, because it did not upgrade its outdated production facilities, Earth Mother Leisure Wear could not assemble its products at a low$-$enough cost to offer the leggings at a price that was attractive to customers. Earth Mother Leisure Wear's strategy failed because