Exam 10: Strategizing, Structuring, and Learning

Overall, the micro, informal interpersonal relationships among managers of various units may create a micro-macro link.

Normally when a firm first expands overseas, it may use an international division and later use a different organizational structure. Under what circumstances might such a firm wish to shift back to the use of an international division?

Transnational strategy supposedly is a trade off between being cost efficient and locally responsive but is really locally responsive.

Which of the following is not true of the global matrix structure? a. Is often used to alleviate the disadvantages associated with the geographic area structure. b. Is often used to alleviate the disadvantages associated with the global product division structures. c. Often used for sharing and coordinating responsibilities between product divisions and geographic areas. d. This structure benefits front-line managers who now have only one boss - either a country manager or a product division manager. e. The matrix structure may add layers of management.

Strategy drives structure: a misfit, such as combining a global strategy with a geographic area structure, may have grave performance consequences.