The divergent viewpoints about how resources, rewards, and punishments should be distributed, and the struggles resulting from these differences are known as organizational:

A. Low number of customers

B. Product differentiation

C. New market entrants

D. Traditional competitors

E. Low number of suppliers

A. Value webs operate in a less linear fashion than traditional value chains

B. Value webs involve highly synchronized industry value chains

C. Value webs involve a collection of independent firms that use information technology to coordinate their value chains

D. Value webs are inflexible and cannot adapt quickly to changes in supply and demand

E. Value webs are more customer-driven than traditional value chains.

A. An organization is a formal, legal entity with intermal rules and procedures that must abide by laws

B. An organization is a collection of rights, privileges, obligations, and responsibilities delicately balanced over a period of time through. conflict and conflict resolution

C. An organization is a stable, formal social structure that takes resources from the environment and processes them to produce outputs

D. An organization is a collection of people and other social elements

E. An informal group can be considered to be an organization

A. False

B. True

A. Divisionalized bureaucracies.

B. Professional bureaucracies

C. Machine bureaucracies

D. Entrepreneurial structures

E. Adhocracies

A. False

B. True

A. By the development of new information technologies

B. Solely by the decision making of middle and senior managers

C. By the rate of growth of the organization

D. By two main macroeconomic forces: capital and labor

E. By many factors, including structure, politics, culture, and environment