In the Lawrence and Lorsch Study,the Most Successful Container Manufacturing

Multiple Choice

In the Lawrence and Lorsch study,the most successful container manufacturing firms adopted mechanistic structures because

A) their managers felt that this was the most sensible way to deal with an uncertain environment and high differentiation.
B) organic structures were too costly to implement.
C) they faced a fairly certain environment and were fairly undifferentiated.
D) decision-making power was already decentralized to be where the appropriate knowledge existed.
E) they utilized non-routine and intensive technologies.