Managers at Xerox displayed very little interest in a new Internet technology that internal scientists at Xerox's PARC division had developed.However,several years later,when an external company developed a similar technology,Xerox,which was considering acquiring the company,responded favorably to the technology idea.This situation is an example of managers prioritizing a(n):
A)not-invented-here syndrome.
B)insider knowledge valuation.
C)outsider knowledge valuation.
D)cognitive stimulation.

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The situation described in the question is an example of managers prioritizing outsider knowledge valuation. Xerox was not interested in the technology until an external company developed a similar one, which suggests that the managers valued the technology more highly when it came from an external source rather than from within the company. This indicates that they may have been more likely to prioritize external knowledge over internal knowledge or suffer from a "not-invented-here" syndrome.

Managers at Xerox Displayed Very Little Interest in a New