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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
  • Canteen Co-op is a democratically run convenience store based in Hong Kong.
  • 1914: Webb and Webb’s degeneration thesis argued that democratic workplaces will either fail or be forced to adopt hierarchical governance to remain profitable.
  • 2012: Diamantopoulos’s regeneration thesis argued that workplaces could regenerate (recover from degeneration by reintroducing democratic practices).
  • 2022: Unterrainer et al. analyzed data from 73 democratic workplaces to track structural changes over time.
  • Canteen Co-op was among the 52.7% of the studied workplaces that resisted degeneration.
  • 10.8% of the workplaces had regenerated, 27.0% showed partial signs of degeneration, and 9.3% had fully degenerated and never recovered.
The student wants to use data to support Diamantopoulos’s thesis. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
A
Signs of degeneration were seen in 27.0% of democratic workplaces studied, supporting Diamantopoulos’s assertion that degeneration could be reversed.
B
An impressive 52.7% of democratic workplaces studied—including Canteen Co-op—resisted degeneration, lending credence to Diamantopoulos’s regeneration thesis.
C
Though Webb and Webb’s degeneration thesis insisted on the inevitability of such an outcome, only 9.5% of democratic workplaces studied had fully degenerated and never recovered.
D
Around 10.8% of democratic workplaces in the study successfully used democratic practices to recover from degeneration.