With Responsibility for His Company's Largely Centralized R&D Activities,Frank Worries

question 2

Multiple Choice

With responsibility for his company's largely centralized R&D activities,Frank worries that the center may not understand local market needs,while the subsidiaries may not be committed to innovations developed at the center.To respond to these concerns,Frank's priority should be to:

• A) adopt a single point of contact between headquarters and the subsidiaries to focus the flow of information.
• B) ensure that several key people in the foreign subsidiaries are linked to individuals at the headquarters who can represent and defend their views.
• C) carefully select the people he interacts with in the subsidiaries in order to reduce conflicting perspectives regarding innovation management.
• D) listen to the different national perspectives and priorities, but minimize differences in views from multiple subsidiaries' input.

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