True or False
1. A decentralized decision-making structure is always more
effective than a centralized decision-making
structure.
2. One of the sources from which organizational culture comes is
the history of the enterprise.
3. A firm’s staffing policy is concerned specifically with the
selection of upper level management
employees who have the skills required to perform a particular
job.
4. Free trade is the absence of barriers to the free flow of goods
and services within a domestic
market.
5. The international strategy involves taking products first
produced for the domestic market and
then selling them internationally after making major local
customizations.
True or False 1. A decentralized decision-making structure is always more effective than a centralized decision-making...
True or False. Centralized decision making is always superior to decentralized decision making.
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