Multiple Choice
Freer trade, advances in information technology, and more global customers are pressuring many large global companies to:
A) shift away from geographically-based to more client-based divisionalized structures.
B) increase direct supervision as the main coordinating mechanism.
C) shift away from divisionalized structures into functional structures.
D) disband their team-based structures in favor of simple structures.
E) shift from functional structures to geographically-based divisionalized structures.
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