Quinton's Company Follows an Imitation Strategy; It Only Produces New

question 105

Multiple Choice

Quinton's company follows an imitation strategy; it only produces new products and moves into new markets after their viability has already been proven.The best organizational structure for it would likely be

• A)organic.
• B)matrix.
• C)mechanistic.
• D)mechanistic and organic.
• E)simple.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, representing an average distance from the mean.

Mean

The average value obtained by adding all the data points in a set together and then dividing by the number of data points.

Standard Normal Curve

A symmetric bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many types of data where the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1.

Z-score

An index quantifying the position of a value relative to the average value in a dataset, expressed as the amount of standard deviations away from this mean.