The risks of wertical integration indude all the following except costs and expenses associated with increased overhead and captat expenditures lack of control over valuable assets. problems assockated with unbatanced capacities atong the value chain. additional administrative costs associated with managing a more complex set of activities. QUESTION 44 A risk for a firm that tries to attain both cost and differentiation advantages is that it can be stuck in the middle. An example of this is supermarkets because theit structure is higher than that of retailers, and customers do not value their products and services as being as valuable as those of high-end, specialty grocers. Cost, high-end Prece, specally Cost, discount Margin, discount