EXAMPLE 9.1 Social Media in the Supply Chain

Case 8.3 (page 438) examined the use of audio/visual sharing through social media for large and small companies.1 Here is the data summary. The table gives the number of companies for each company size. The count is the number of companies that used audio/visual sharing through social media in their supply chain.

Size
1 (small companies) 178 150
2 (large companies) 52 27

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To compare small companies with the large companies, we calculated sample proportions from these counts.