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Describe four strategic responses other than organizational structure that are designed to reduce environmental uncertainty or resource dependence.

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An alliance of independent companies share skills, costs, and access to one another's markets in what type of organization?


A) Network organization
B) Virtual organization
C) Modular organization
D) Holacratic organization
E) Organic organization

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Which of the following would NOT be classed as a strategic alliance?


A) Company A buys company B.
B) Company A enters into a research consortium with company B.
C) Company A enters into a close arrangement with its unique supplier, company B.
D) Company A engages in a joint venture with company B.
E) Company A enters into a close arrangement with the union representing its workers.

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Formalization is inversely related to organizational size.

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Integrating business in multiple geographic regions is a common stimulus for


A) geographic departmentation.
B) matrix departmentation.
C) customer departmentation.
D) hybrid departmentation.
E) product departmentation.

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The process of attaining coordination across differentiated departments usually goes by the name of


A) integration.
B) coordination.
C) mutual adjustment.
D) standardization.
E) facilitation.

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After graduating from university, Joan is planning to start her own business.She wants to have her own chain of coffee bars.But that's not all.She plans to import, roast, and package her own brand of coffee.What is this a good example of?


A) Open systems
B) Resource dependence
C) Strategy
D) Vertical integration
E) Establishing legitimacy

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What strategic response helped WestJet get off the ground in its formative year?


A) Joint venture
B) Mergers and acquisitions
C) Establishing legitimacy
D) Vertical integration
E) Organizational structure

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What strategic reason might prompt an organization in one industry to acquire a firm in a completely different industry?


A) To increase environmental uncertainty
B) To reduce resource dependence
C) To obtain a flatter structure
D) To reduce differentiation
E) To reduce competition

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For most organizations there is usually "one best way" to organize.

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Any merger of more and less entrepreneurial firms raises the need to consider


A) a network organization.
B) a virtual organization.
C) a modular organization.
D) an ambidextrous organization.
E) a holacratic organization.

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Rules, regulations, and procedures are clear examples of the organizational structure characteristic called complexity.

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The most common way of achieving legitimacy is to be seen as doing good deeds in the community.

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Networks allow organizations to specialize in what they do best.

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________ systems take inputs from the external environment, transform some of these inputs, and send them back into the environment as outputs.

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Which of the following is most accurate?


A) Mechanistic = bureaucratic
B) Differentiation = integration
C) Formalized = organic
D) Mutual adjustment = direct supervision
E) Centralization = complexity

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Visa is an organization that is essentially virtual.

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What contemporary organizational structure is dependent on many outsiders?


A) Ambidextrous
B) Holacracy
C) Network
D) Virtual
E) Modular

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Linda is a new Chief Operating Officer at Rolling Corporation, a 30-year-old manufacturer of aluminum truck wheels and axles.One of her assignments is to lead a strategy team to figure out how to structure the company in order to most effectively support the growth of a new, experimental division whose mandate is to develop innovative friction reduction systems for aircraft landing gear.She wants to be sure that Rolling Corp.continues to excel in the trucking industry and, at the same time, lets the new division flourish.She will most likely need to create a(n)________ organization.

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Vertical integration refers to good communication between the levels of an organizational hierarchy.

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