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

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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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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?

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

Networks allow organizations to specialize in what they do best.

What contemporary organizational structure is dependent on many outsiders?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which of the following is most accurate?

Formalization is inversely related to organizational size.

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

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

Integrating business in multiple geographic regions is a common stimulus for

Visa is an organization that is essentially virtual.

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.