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Based on the organizational definition of an organization, each of the following is a true statement except: Your answer: people make arrangements with subordinates and superiors about how work will be done. The correct answer: the primary production factors are capital and labor. INCORRECT.

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Organizations differ in their: Your answer: impartial judgments. The correct answer: ultimate goals and the types of power used to achieve them. INCORRECT.

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A professional bureaucracy is a(n): Your answer: "task force" organization that must respond to rapidly changing environments. The correct answer: knowledge-based organization where goods and services depend on the expertise and knowledge of professionals. INCORRECT.

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Each of the following is a common organizational feature except: Your answer: constituencies. CORRECT.

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The senior manager in charge of the information systems function in the firm defines: Your answer: project manager. The correct answer: chief information officer. INCORRECT.

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The economic theory that views the firm as a nexus of contracts among self-interested individuals who must be supervised and managed is: Your answer: nexus theory. The correct answer: agency theory. INCORRECT.

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Kotter argues that: Your answer: managers do all of the above. CORRECT.

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Deciding how to carry out specific tasks specified by strategic and middle management and establishing criteria for completion and resource allocation best describes: Your answer: operational control.

CORRECT. 9. Incorrect A semi-structured decision made at the management level would be: Your answer: accounts receivable. The correct answer: budget preparation. INCORRECT. 10 Incorrect . A model of decision making stating that organizations are not rational and that decisions are solutions that become attached to problems for accidental reasons best describes the: Your answer: political model of decision making. The correct answer: "garbage can" model of decision making. INCORRECT. 11 Incorrect . Strategic information systems are: Your answer: systems that directly link consumer behavior back to distribution, production, and supply chains. The correct answer: computer systems at any level of the organization that change goals, operations, products, services, or environmental relationships to help the organization gain a competitive advantage. INCORRECT. 12 Incorrect . A competitive strategy for developing new market niches for specialized products or services where a business can compete in the target area better than its competitors best describes: Your answer: product differentiation. The correct answer: focused differentiation. INCORRECT. 13 Incorrect . The expenses a customer or company incurs in lost time and expenditure of resources when changing from one supplier or system to a competing supplier or system are: Your answer: moving costs. The correct answer: switching costs. INCORRECT. 14 Incorrect . A model based on the concept of a network where adding another participant entails zero marginal costs but can create much larger marginal gain defines: Your answer: the value chain model. The correct answer: network economics. INCORRECT. 15 Correct . A movement from one level of a sociotechnical system to another is referred to as:

Your answer: a strategic transition. CORRECT. Information technology plays a critical role in helping organizations:
Your Answer: work with nonroutine tasks. Correct Answer: perceive environmental change. Incorrect

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All organizations become very efficient over time because individuals in the firm develop: Your Answer: routines for producing goods and services. Correct

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The set of fundamental assumptions about what products the organization should produce, how and where it should produce them, and for whom they should be produced is Your Answer: behavioral model. Correct Answer: organizational culture. Incorrect

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The transaction cost theory states that the organization is a(n): Your Answer: entity that grows larger because it can conduct marketplace transactions internally more cheaply than it can with external firms in the marketplace. Correct

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In postindustrial societies, authority increasingly relied on: Your Answer: economic status. Correct Answer: knowledge and competence. Incorrect

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This individual is credited with the development of the five forces competitive model: Your Answer: Michael Dell. Correct Answer: Michael Porter. Incorrect

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Google are using information technology to pursue this generic strategy: Your Answer: product differentiation. Correct

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Chrysler Corporation uses technology as a competitive strategy against their competitors: Your Answer: (blank)

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Locking in customers by making it difficult for them to change to another product is referred to as Your Answer: creating switching costs. Correct

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The value chain model highlights the primary or support activities that add a margin of value to a firm's products or services where: Your Answer: they are directly related to the production and distribution of the firm's products and services. Correct Answer: information systems can best be applied to achieve a competitive advantage. Incorrect

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In Porter's value chain model, inbound logistics, operations, sales and marketing, service, and outbound logistics are all

classified as: Your Answer: support activities. Correct Answer: primary activities. Incorrect

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Benchmarking involves: Your Answer: introducing new systems in stages either by functions or by organization. Correct Answer: setting strict standards for products, services, or activities and measuring organizational performance against those standards. Incorrect

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When two organizations pool markets and expertise and the relationship results in lower costs and generating profits is known as creating Your Answer: Payloads. Correct Answer: Synergies. Incorrect

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Another term used to describe loosely coupled but interdependent networks of suppliers, distributors, outsourcing firms, transportation service firms, and technology manufacturers is: Your Answer: value Web. Correct Answer: business ecosystem. Incorrect

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Sociotechnical changes that affect both social and technical elements of the organization can be considered as: Your Answer: strategic transitions. Correct