Assignment
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1. How should an organization design its structure and culture to obtain a core competence in manufacturing and in research and development?
2. What is the difference between a low-cost strategy and a differentiation strategy? How should a differentiated biotechnology organization and a low-cost fast-food organization design their structures and cultures to promote their respective competitive advantages?
3. How and why do bureaucratic costs increase as a company goes from a multidomestic, to an international, to a global, to a transnational strategy?
4. How can technology increase organizational effectiveness?
5. What makes some tasks more complex than others? Give an example of an organization for each of the four types of technology identified by Perrow.
6. Why is technical complexity greatest with continuous-process technology? How does technical complexity affect organizational structure?