Which of the following statements about creating permeable internal boundaries are correct?

Not a risk associated w bottom of pyramid

New products perceived as exploiting

Multinational films are faced w

Local adaptation and global integration

One challenge of globalization

Meet need of different income levels

Trade _ nations will exceed trade _ nations

Half the world output comes from engineering

Globalization’s involves exchange with

In porters diamond of national advantage.. not affect nation competitive

Conditions in nations governing

Rivalry is intense in nations with _ consumer demand, _ supplier, _ new entrants

According to Porter, intense domestic competition

More likely to design strategies to compete abroad

Countries with demanding consumers drive

Related industries create new companies in markets. This _ competition and improve _

Porter diamond strongest global competitive success

Not a motivation to pursue international expansion

Wishes to increase foreign market penetration

Considering optimizing the physical location what is not possible strategic advantage

If US dollar appreciates relative to foreign currency

_ occurs when a firm utilized other firms to perform

Sources of political risk don’t include

When firms expand into global markets.. high pressure exist to lower costs and companies should

Global strategy
Transnational strategy

When firms expand into global markets.. high pressure exist to adapt locally and companies should

Transnational strategy
Multidomestic

To be responsive to local pressures companies must

When differentiating products, strategies are likely to

In quest to achieve competitive advantage in global markets

Which is appropriate strategy for companies to use to compete in global market

High pressure for local adaptation combined with low

Industries in which more value is added in

Which if the following types of international firms

Firms in indiaries that have much value added in research and design

Recent trends that might lead managers of multi national corps

Customer needs interests and tastes

Firms following global strategy strive to offer

Which is not a risk with global strategy

Pressures for local adaptation

Which is not limitation of global strategy

Ability to locate activities

Which of following is reason for rise in regional expansion

Increase in number of trading blocs

Regionalization is most important because

The true distance between Home country and foreign

Similarity of culture, laws and rules

According to book, _ economic integration has progressed faster than _

Regions represent the outcomes of centuries

Which of following is typical order of entry in foreign

Exporting, licensing, franchising

A domestic Corp considering international expansion

Will implement low risk low control

Form of entry strategy into international operations

Fees that a multinational received from foreign licensee

_ entail creations of third party legal entity

Joint ventures
Strategic alliances

Most appropriate when form as knowledge and capabilities

A firm can establish a wholly owned sub by

Acquiring an existing companie

For an entrepreneurial startup to be successful

A viable opportunity, available resources

Which is not a common source of a new business opp

The process of identifying, selecting and developing

Generally speaking the recognition process

Which is not characteristic of entrepreneurial opportunity

When and opportunity is attractive long enough

Which is not a primary source of financing

Majority of start ups are financed through

Personal savings and family and friends

Private individuals who provide seed capital

Which is not true about venture capitals

Venture capital is a form of public equity financing

According to text new ventures launched by entrepreneurial teams

Key avenue for growth for many young and small firms through partnering

The US small business ad supports

Investing venture capital

Not one of the 3 characteristics of entrepreneurial leadership

Clarifying job responsibilities

Entrepreneur has to envision what doesn’t exist

Which is not a common new entry strategy

Seeking products or services that have been successful

The new entry strategy is dependent on

Riskiness and innovative ness

Not a factor that make difficult for new ventures to be successful

Customer service is often costly

Amazon is company that uses differentiation strategy

Exceptional customer service

One way entrepreneurs achieve success is using resources

Entrepreneurial firms that use low cost leadership

Extensive investment in order to achieve

When an industry is mature

Which does not make it difficult for entrepreneurs to pursue diff

New ventures may find it difficult to use differentiation

Sufficient funding
Superior innovation

Intense rivalry involving action as among competitors

Competitions with similar offers find that new entrant

Nearly all market need is already

In competitive dynamics new entrants may force strategies

Which is not reason a company launches new actions

Find new sources of raw materials

Aircraft makers Boeing have high degree of

Wall Street journal and ny times

Increased market commonality

When 2 firms have both high degree of market comm and high resources

Competitive tendencies of small firms

Small firms are more nimble

All are examples of strategic actions except

Best example of tactical action a company may use

Which is not a factor have a competitor will respond to competitive attack

Which refers to a situation where a company has high concentrations

Strategic competitive actions include

Product service enhancement

Small firm make no attack due to lack of resources

Behavioral controls are aspects of strategic change

The traditional approach to strategic control

Action plans are submitted by lower managers

Which is primary drawback of traditions strategic control

They lack the flexibility

For businesses facing complex and turbulent business environments

Traditional strategic controls are inappropriate

In the contemporary approach to strategic control

Strategy formulation
Implementation
Control

Contemporary approaches to strategic control

Informational control systems are connected

Is the organization doing the right things

Continuous monitoring in the contemporary approach

Which is not one of the characteristics of contemporary control system

It circumvents the need for face to face

Top managers at ABC company meet every Friday to review

As firms simultaneously downsize the need for increased coordination

Boundaries and constraints

Which is not an example of how organizational culture exerts behavioral control

Culture sets explicit boundaries

Founder of Walmart gave pep rallies bc

Helped reinforce and sustain culture

Which is not reward and incentive system

They represent poor means of influencing culture

Does not always guarantee

When subcultures emerge that have shared values

Individuals begin working at cross purposes

Which is not effective rewards and incentive system

The structure is fixed to assure employees of consistency

Lack of clear understanding of organizational goals

Effective boundaries and constraints

Minimize improper ethical conducts

Effective short term objectives should be

Must be specific for clear understanding

Rules and regulations are

Boundaries and constraints

Best way to minimize improper and unethical conduct

Set boundaries and constraints

Which to behavioral strategic controls would be the least appropriate for an organization

Most successful organizations minimize the need for explicit rules regulations and other boundaries

Designing effective reward systems

Rule based controls are least appropriate with

Employees highly skilled and independent

Rules and regulations rather than culture would be

Manufacturer of mass produced products

Primary participants in corporate governance

Agency threory is concerned with resolving two problems

Stockholders and management

I order to minimize the temptation or managers to act in their own self..NOT

Individual and institutional shareholders have

Right to bring suit for damages

Serves as both CEO and the chair of board

External governance control mechanisms

In trying to assure managerial actions ions lead to value maximization

Become an attractive takeover target

By takeover constraint we mean

Risk of being acquired by hostile

It is generally argued that takeover constraint ..

Engaging in opportunistic behavior

In principal -principal comflicts

Expropriation of minority shareholders

Adversely affected by the actions of controlling shareholders

In large organizations, a strategy of diversification

Product lines
Geographic markets

Which is not primary factor that a large firm with international operations

Degree of market diversity

When an organizations with a simple structure increases

When an organization with a functional structure diversifies

Develops a divisional structure

A strategy of related diversification requires more firms

Successful organizations create

The two vital ongoing activities necessary for creating boundaryless

Type of structure, mechanisms, processes

Organizational structure refers to

Tasks
Technologies
People

Structures help to ensure that

Which is not identified structure

Organizations that make it to the growth stage

Increase overall scope of operations

The appropriateness of the type of organizational structure

Which of statements about simple organizational false

Creativity and individualism are rare

Low specialization and high centralization

Functional structures are usually

Which is an advantage of a functional type of organizational structure

Looking of specialists enhances coordination

Which is disadvantage of functional type of organizational structure

Differences in functional orientation may impede

Which is an advantage of divisional type of organizational structure

Enhanced ability to respond quickly

Which is not a disadvantage of divisional type of organizational structure

There is separation of strategic

Which is not an advantage of strategic business unit SBU type

Corporate office is more removed from individual divisions

Important advantages of a holding company structure

Savings in personnel and overhead expenses

Strategic business unit SBU and holding company

A matrix organizational structure is characterized by

Functional structure
Divisional

Complicated working relationships, intense power struggles and excessive

I creased responsiveness s

Low level of product diversity

Worldwide product division

High level product diversity

Which is not primary type of organizational structure

Home country product division

Which of the following are the three major contingencies that influence the structure of an international company?

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Which of the following statements regarding the disadvantages of a holding company structure are true?

Which of the following statements regarding the disadvantages of a holding company structure are true? It hinders turning around individual business in the company that may run into trouble.

Which of the following are characteristics of horizontal organizational structures?

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Which of the following are the four essential aspects of an organizational structure?

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