The reasons why a company, opts to expand outside its home market include all the following EXCEPT: gaining access to new customers for the company's products/services. spreading its Business risk across a wicket market base. Achieving lower costs through economics of scale, experience, and increased purchasing power. Exploiting its core competencies and capabilities. Identifying resources and capabilities in the company's home market. When of the fallowing its true of the general environment? It contains opportunities and throats that are easier to identify and respond to than those in the task environment. It comprises the set of forces that originate with global suppliers, distributors, customers, and competitors. It includes the wide-ranging global technological sociocultural, and political forces that affect, organizations. It contains the forces that have the most immediate effect on managers and their decisions. It contains forces that have very little impact upon the performance of organizations