Exam 13: Strategizing,structuring,and Learning Around the World

The relationship between strategy and structure is reciprocal.

Learning aquatic zumba is an example of tacit knowledge.

Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of the home replication strategy.

Innovations flow only from the host countries to the home country in a transnational strategy.

In the context of the customer-focused dimension of a global matrix,the _____ structure supplies customers in a coordinated and consistent way across various countries.

____ is the informal interpersonal relationships among managers of different units that may greatly facilitate intersubsidiary cooperation among various units.

Which element of knowledge management faces the common problem of employee turnover? 

When an MNE is locally responsive,_____.

In MNEs adopting the home replication strategy,knowledge is developed at the center and transferred to subsidiaries.

Explain the reciprocal relationship between multinational strategy and structure.

The global standardization strategy,despite its complexity,is still the best option at being cost effective,locally responsive,and learning-driven.

The global product division structure organizes the MNE according to different geographic areas.

What are centers of excellence?

From a resource-based view,explicit knowledge is strategically more important than tacit knowledge.

Local responsiveness makes local customers and governments happy and helps decrease costs.

Externally,MNEs are subject to the formal institutional frameworks erected by various home-country and host-country governments.

A global matrix structure alleviates the disadvantages associated with both geographic area and global product division structures.

The hallmark of the _____ structure is the coordination of responsibilities between product divisions and geographic areas.

____ is the ability to recognize the value of new information,assimilate it,and apply it.

MNEs that engage in a transnational strategy promote global learning.