Exam 8: Organization Structure and Control Systems

The ________ strategy involves maximizing opportunities for both efficiency and local responsiveness by adopting a structure that uses alliances, networks, and horizontal design formats.

An international division may be organized along what lines?

Which of the following is a non-financial measure for the performance evaluation of a subsidiary?

Which of the following terms refers to focusing on and specializing in specific markets?

Explain the need for an MNC to "be global and act local." How can organizational structure enable a firm to be glocal?

The stages model is best described as the stages of change in an organizational structure that ________.

Small firms typically begin their international involvement by ________.

The primary advantage of a global geographic structure is the firm's ability to ________.

Which of the following terms refers to the coordination of markets?

What is the primary disadvantage of rationalization?

Why is it difficult for managers to evaluate and compare performance across subsidiaries? How can managers overcome these difficulties?

Discuss the affect of culture on organizational structure.

Those who design organizational structures must account for the relationships among the three interdependent factors of ________.

Which of the following is an essential element of the transnational structure of Asea-Brown Boveri (ABB)?

In a brief essay discuss the transnational corporation network structure. How does a TNC network structure affect a local manager's decision-making ability?

Which of the following is NOT a stage in Stopford's stages model?

In a global geographic structure, decisions are primarily made by ________.

Structure must fit an organization's ________, or it will not work.

With a transnational strategy, the role of organizational culture is ________, and in a multidomestic strategy, the role of organizational culture is ________.

The organizational structure of Levi Strauss is best described as a ________.