An Important Lesson from the Chapter 11 Opening Case About

question 154

Multiple Choice

An important lesson from the Chapter 11 Opening Case about Borders is that

• A) Borders did a good job of implementing its strategy but its structure was wrong.
• B) structures rarely evolve in response to strategic change.
• C) while a firm's structure usually follows the strategy, once in place, structure can have a significant effect on strategy.
• D) Borders' decentralized structure led to poor decision making.