The advantages of long tenure (firm-specific human and social capital, knowledge, and power) seem to outweigh the disadvantages of rigidity and maintaining the status quo

Because top management decisions are usually complex and nonroutine, direct supervision (even by the firm’s board of directors) is likely to be ineffective as a means of judging the quality of their decisions

The CEO of YorkMark, Inc., has an exceptional amount of power in the organization. It is likely the board of directors is composed of sympathetic outside members and insiders who report to the CEO

A worldwide geographic area structure is an organizational form in which:

Mutual forbearance is:

In the United States, the primary goal of a firm is to maximize profits to provide a financial gain to shareholders

The matrix organization has a dual structure combining both functional specialization and business product or project specialization

If firms band together in a large number of vertical complementary strategic alliances, there is a danger that the government will suspect them of illegal collusive activities

Pat is a strategic leader at Moricon. Pat’s team is developing new internal auditing practices to be implemented at Moricon. Pat has assigned one member of the team to ensure that the new procedures are consistent with the firm’s ethical standards. Pat is taking action that supports what?

Joseph Schumpeter argued that firms engage in three types of innovative activities: imitation, invention, and innovation