Visit the Whirlpool Corporation (www.whirlpool.com) and click on International Sites. Whirlpool has a complex value chain. Based

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Visit the Whirlpool (www.whirlpool.com) and click on “International Sites”. Whirlpool has a complex value chain. Based on the information provided at the Web site, address the following questions: What types of upstream (for example, R&D, sourcing, manufacturing) value-chain activities does Whirlpool perform? What types of downstream value-chain activities (for example, marketing, distribution, after-sales service) does Whirlpool perform? Identify the types of participants (mainly intermediaries and facilitators) that Whirlpool is likely to use at each stage of the value chain.

Corporation
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