The four major competitive strategies are

A. World Wide WeB.

B. Digital photography

C. e-mail

D. Instant messaging

E. PCs

A. Fewer suppliers

B. Only a single supplier

C. Global suppliers

D. Local suppliers

E. More suppliers

A. Creating new opportunities for building loyal customer bases

B. Enabling the development of new services

C. Lowering transaction costs

D. Making information available to everyone

E. Making more products available

A. It sees the organization as a social structure similar to a machine

B. It focuses on how inputs are combined to create outputs when technology changes are introduced into a company

C. It sees the firm as being infinitely malleable

D. It emphasizes group relationships, values and structures

E. It sees capital and labor as being easily substituted for one another

A. Strengthen ties to its customers

B. Focus on market niche

C. Achieve low-cost leadership.

D. Simplify the industry value chain

E. Develop synergies

A. Divisionalized bureaucracies.

B. Professional bureaucracies

C. Machine bureaucracies

D. Entrepreneurial structures

E. Adhocracies

A. Entrepreneurial structure

B. Unified, profit-maximizing entity

C. "Nexus of contracts" among self-interested individuals

D. Entrepreneurial endeavor

E. Task force organization that must respond to rapidly changing environments