The Larson and Gobeli Study That Compared Projects That Had

question 79

Multiple Choice

The Larson and Gobeli study that compared projects that had been managed in a variety of structural types revealed that new product development projects tended to be most effectively executed when the organizational structure was a:

• A) Project matrix.
• B) Project organization.
• C) Balanced matrix.
• D) Functional matrix.

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