Exam 14: The Organization of International Business

What are the three dimensions of organizational structure?

It is important to realize that organizational change will occur regardless of the commitment of senior managers to it.

Firms pursuing a global standardization strategy:

The worldwide area structure tends to be adopted by firms with a low level of diversification whose domestic structures are based on functions.

Discuss the characteristics of a firm that is pursuing an international strategy.

Organizational structure means all of the following, EXCEPT:

Which control system is most widely used by small firms?

It is more difficult for a leader to create an organizational culture from scratch in a new venture than it is to change an established one.

Firms pursuing a localization strategy have a high need for coordination between subunits.

A worldwide product division structure tends to be adopted by firms that are reasonably diversified and originally had domestic structures based on product divisions.

There is low interdependence, performance ambiguity, and costs of control in firms pursuing a(n):

Personal control is a type of control that tends to be most widely used in large firms.

Discuss the location of decision-making in a firm that is following a transnational strategy.

Discuss the issues involved in refreezing an organization.

Bureaucratic control involves personal contact with subordinates.

The norms and values systems that are shared among the employees of a company are referred to as:

To unfreeze the established culture of an organization the company must take bold steps such as shaking up the management structure in order to implement change.

Regardless of a firm's domestic structure, its international division tends to be organized on economy.

The need for coordination between subunits is lowest in firms pursuing a(n):

A(n) _____ tends to be adopted by firms that are reasonably diversified.