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100. One way to judge the performance of a company is to compare it with other companies. This technique, commonly called “benchmarking,” permits the manager of a company to discover better industrial practices and can provide a justification for the adoption of good practices. >>

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Any of the following, if true, is a valid reason for benchmarking the performance of a company against companies with which is not in competition rather than against competitors EXCEPT:>>

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A.     Comparisons with competitors are most likely to focus on practices that the manager making the comparisons already employs.>>

B.     Getting “inside” information about the unique practices of competitors is particularly difficult.

C.    Since companies that compete with each other are likely to have comparable levels of efficiency, only benchmarking against noncompetitors is likely to reveal practices that they find outside their own industry.

D.    Managers are generally more receptive to new ideas that they find outside their own industry.

E.     Much of the success of good companies is due to their adoption of practice that take advantage of the special circumstances of their product or markets.

i wanna know what the blue section mean?

and answer is E , thank u.

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 benchmarking the performance of a company against companies with which is not in competition rather than against competitors
    

把非竞争企业作为基准优于把竞争企业作为基准

companies with which is not in competition rather than (companies with which is) against competitors.

把公司的业绩与非竞争者相比，而不与竞争者相比

benchmarking the performance of a company against companies with which is not in competition rather than against competitors
  

benchmarking the performance of a company against companies with which is not in competition rather than against companies with which is in competiton.