Exam 3: Managing in a Changing Global Environment

An organization's environment will be more uncertain when:

A keiretsu is a form of which of the following types of strategic alliance?

Informal linkage mechanisms should be used when companies:

A small restaurant hires an advertising firm to handle promotions and advertising. This is an example of ________.

________ is the most formal interorganizational linkage.

Changes in customer tastes and preferences is a force in the specific environment that impacts an organization.

Which term is defined by the amount of resources available to support an organization's domain?

Which of the following is an example of co-optation?

Which of the following may increase transaction costs?

In general, organizations like competition because it enlarges the organizational domain.

Formal interorganizational linkage mechanisms reduce transaction costs.

Which of the following type(s) of strategic alliance is the most formal?

The union does not like the work rules of an automobile plant. The plant forms a joint union-labor committee and gets key union leaders to join the committee. This is an example of:

The acquisition of Tungsram and General Electric failed because ________.

The reason McDonald's uses franchising is to:

McDonalds is trying to determine whether to purchase its own fleet of vehicles for delivering products to stores, or to contract with outside trucking companies to do this. This is an example of ________.

Developing a good reputation is a way to manage competitive interdependencies.

You are a consultant to a large telecommunications company that markets many products to many customers. Briefly describe the level of uncertainty and recommend strategies for managing the organizational environment.

The more complex an organization's environment, the more problems associated with controlling the flow of resources there are.

The keiretsu system is a form of minority ownership.