Deciding How Much Decision-Making Authority to Centralize at Corporate Headquarters

question 91

Multiple Choice

Deciding how much decision-making authority to centralize at corporate headquarters and how much to decentralize to the divisions can be a disadvantage of the ________ structure.

• A) matrix
• B) multidivisional
• C) product division
• D) functional

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