When linking operations to business strategies, the order winner of the product imitator strategy, is for the customer, whereas the order winner of the product innovator strategy is .

The question is incomplete, the options are missing. The options are the following:

a) Flexibility; price

b) Flexibility; quality

c) Quality; price

d) Price; quality

e) Price; flexibility

And the correct answer is the option E: Price; flexibility.

Explanation:

To begin with, in the field of business management the term known as "product imitator strategy" refers to a type of technique or strategy used by the companies in the situation where the want to reproduce a product that is imitating the product of the leader company of the industry. It is a very common and used method in most of the industries due to the fact that it happens when many companies try to produce a product that is similar to the ones of Apple for example. And when it comes to this strategy the most important matter for the customer is the price while for the for the product innovator strategy is the flexibility of it.

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