organization of international bus D300 chapter

Organizational architecture
- the totality of a firms organizations, including:
- organizational structute
- Co
Organizational Structure
- Vertical differentiation
- Location of decision
- Centralization vs decentralization
- Horizontal differentiation
Advantages of centrealization
- Facilitates coordination and control throughout the organization
- Ensures decisions are consistent with organizational objectives
- Gives top management the means to bring about needed major organizational changes
- Avoids the duplications of the same activates within the organization
Advantages of Decentralization
- Relieves the burden of top management to focous on critical issues
- Motivates low- level managers with more authorities and freedom
- Permits greater flexiablity
- Leads to better decisions by local managers who have better information's about the local market
strategy and centralization
- the choice between centralization and decentralization is not absolute
- typically, firms centralize some activitesn or functions and decentralize others.

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