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BU 398 Quiz

Name: ________________
Group Number: (1-9) ____________
Time of quiz: 7 mins
Please circle the right answer:
1. What kind of strategy can reduce rivalry with competitors and fight off the threat of
substitute products because customers are loyal to the company's brand?
A. low-cost leadership
B. focused
C. defensive
D. differentiation

2. Which statement best describes the focus strategy?


A. It is known for its creative flair.
B. It utilizes strong central authority.
C. It involves detailed control reports for targeting areas of emphasis.
D. It concentrates on a specific regional market or buyer group.

3. What is a potential weakness of the horizontal structure?


A. It is inflexible and slow to respond to rapid changes in customer needs.
B. Determining core processes to organize around is often difficult.
C. There is a failure to promote teamwork.
D. Organizational goals are not well understood by employees.

4. What is characteristic of an organization with a functional structure?


A. It reacts quickly to environmental changes.
B. It diminishes economies of scale compared to the divisional structure.
C. It often results in hierarchy overload.
D. It cannot work in small organizations.

5. Which of the following includes those sectors that might not have a direct impact on the
daily operations of a firm but will indirectly influence it?
A. the general environment
B. the international context
C. the task environment
D. the buffering roles
6. Which statement most accurately describes mechanistic organizations?
A. They have authoritarian, unfriendly leadership.
B. Communication is horizontal.
C. They are service organizations with individualized customer demands.
D. Tasks are broken down into specialized parts.

7. Which term refers to relatively enduring resource transactions, flows, and linkages that
occur among two or more organizations?
A. Intranet
B. interorganizational relationships
C. resource dependence
D. institutional environment

8. Which theory argues that organizations try to minimize their reliance on other
organizations for the supply of important materials and try to influence the environment
to make sure the materials they need are available?
A. interorganizational theory
B. environmental resource theory
C. resource-dependence theory
D. economic-supply theory

9. Which of the following is evidence of mimetic forces in an organizational field?


A. consultant training
B. pollution controls
C. accounting standards
D. reengineering

10. Which of the following is an example of a coercive force?


A. Professionalism
B. Innovation
C. environmental visibility
D. political law

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