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Jack Welch,former CEO of GE,believes that all internal and external organizational boundaries should vanish completely.

A) True
B) False

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Organizations generally tend to become internally focused when faced with ________ and ________.

A) resource scarcity;declining performance
B) internal pressures;improving performance
C) resource abundance;declining performance
D) external pressures;resource abundance

E) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

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In an ambidextrous firm,if too much focus is placed on ________,the firm with suffer low profitability in the short run.

Effective ambidextrous organizations maintain adaptability,which means that

Which of the following is not a disadvantage of a divisional type of organizational structure?

The appropriateness of the type of organizational structure depends upon the ________ and ________ of growth.

Discuss the three major contingencies that influence the chosen organizational structure as a firm expands into foreign markets.

What is the name of the practice that many modular organization use to grow?

If an international firm has a multidomestic strategy and a relatively high level of product diversity,the best choice for its organizational structure is a(n) ________ structure.

As illustrated in the opening case for Chapter 10,Boeing lost a lot of control and,therefore,incurred high operating costs for its build out of the 787 Dreamliner because it ________ design and manufacturing.

According to the study by O'Reilly and Tushman,effective ambidextrous structures had all the following attributes except

In a barrier-free organization,differences in skills,authority,and talent disappear.

Which of the following is an advantage of a divisional type of organizational structure?

Organizational structure refers to the formalized patterns of interactions that link company ________,________,and ________.

One of the disadvantages of divisional structure design is that they divide ________,________,and knowledge.They insulate divisional managers from other divisional managers thus inhibiting their ability to coordinate activities,share resources,and learn from each other.

An organization such as ConAgra that has dozens of different divisions with similar products will probably have the greatest success with which form of organization structure?

To enhance integration and control of related product market activities,the functional structure minimizes centralization.

Tools and techniques used to achieve effective coordination and integration of key activities in an organization include all the following except

According to author Jeffrey Pfeffer,the advantages of teams are that employees control themselves,develop more creative solutions to problems,and permit the absorption of administrative tasks previously performed by specialists.

The O'Reilly and Tushman study on ambidextrous organizational designs found that there was little support for the argument that organizational structure,management practices employed and performance of both the breakthrough initiative and the traditional business are related.