Companies implementing which of the following global expansion strategies are most likely to require the most complex structure and control system?
A) multidomestic strategy
B) international strategy
C) global strategy
D) transnational strategy
Question 2Which of the following controls an organization's behavior when it is in the growth through creativity stage of Greiner's model?
A) organizational culture
B) organizational structure
C) rules and standard operating procedures
D) industrial benchmarking
Question 3Which of the following statements is true regarding a global strategy?
A) A global strategy is oriented toward cost reduction.
B) A company pursuing a global strategy completely decentralizes control to subsidiaries and divisions in each country in which it operates.
C) The bureaucratic costs incurred to solve communications and measurement problems are much higher for a company pursuing a global strategy than that pursuing a transnational strategy.
D) The organizational structure required for pursuing a multidomestic strategy is more complex than that required for pursuing a global strategy.
Question 4________ proposes that during the process of organizational growth each stage ends with a crisis that must be resolved before the organization can advance to the next stage.
A) Population ecology model
B) Institutional theory
C) Greiner's model
D) Transaction cost theory
Question 5Which of the following statements is true regarding a transnational strategy?
A) A transnational strategy is focused on achieving both local responsiveness and cost reduction.
B) Typically, the organizational structure used by a company implementing a transnational strategy is less complex than that used by a company implementing a multidomestic strategy.
C) A transnational strategy does not require integration and coordination of activities on a global level.
D) A global geographic structure is typically used by a company that is implementing a transnational strategy.
Question 6Explain the relationship between environmental uncertainty and organizational structure based on the study conducted by Burns and Stalker.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 7Which of the following is one of the five stages in Greiner's model of growth?
A) direction
B) integration
C) association
D) centralization
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