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1)Which of the following strategic approach and strategic capabilities cannot be paired?           Which of the following describes the preferred sequencing of changes associated with implementing the typically more effective emerging change process model?     In a transnational organization, knowledge is developed at the headquarters and transferred to foreign units

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1)Which of the following strategic approach and strategic capabilities cannot be paired?

 

 

 

 

 

2. Which of the following describes the preferred sequencing of changes associated with implementing the typically more effective emerging change process model?

 

 

3. In a transnational organization, knowledge is developed at the headquarters and transferred to foreign units.

 

 

4. Which of the following is not characteristic of companies with a transnational strategy?

 

 

5. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the centralized hub structure?

 

 

6. Isatis Co. has successfully transitioned from a global strategy to a transnational strategy. Which of the following describes the likely configuration of assets and capabilities that now most likely prevails at Isatis?

 

 

7. Which of the following strategy-structure combinations cannot be paired?

 

 

8. MNEs that adopted a centralized hub organizational model were able to develop competitive advantage through their ability to transfer knowledge and expertise and adapt it to markets worldwide.

 

 

9. Which of the following is not a core characteristic of the decentralized federation structure?

 

 

 

10. Which of the following is not a core characteristic of the coordinated federation structure?

 

 

11. In the transnational organization, capable managers situated in the national subsidiaries act as the primary source for sensing and analyzing worldwide opportunities and threats.

 

 

12. A transnational organization integrates its dispersed assets, resources, and capabilities through flexible processes involving centralization, formalization and rationalization.

 

 

13. Companies that pursue a multinational strategy are inclined to adopt the decentralized federation organizational model.

 

 

14. Which of the following statements regarding knowledge diffusion is correct?

 

 

15. In a transnational organization, the asset and capability configuration can be described as dispersed, specialized and interdependent.

 

 

16. The key strategic capability associated with the coordinated federation organizational model is global-scale efficiency.

 

 

17. Summit Corp. is transitioning from a multinational strategy to a transnational strategy. It would probably be more effective and less costly if the company commenced its accompanying organizational transition by focusing on changing employees’ attitudes and mentalities, than it would be if it led its efforts by engaging in structural change.

 

 

18. The key capabilities of national responsiveness, learning and transfer of home country knowledge abroad, and global efficiency are mutually exclusive. That is, having one capability inhibits the concurrent possession of others.

 

 

19. Installing a matrix structure is the most effective way to transition from an organization based on multiple regional divisions to one able to manage both geographic and product diversity.

 

 

20. In companies with the decentralized federation model, the degree of control and coordination exercised by the headquarters is greater than it is in companies with the coordinated federation organizational model.