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The adhocracy design for e-businesses



1. Information technology has spawned a whole new series of corporations called __________. 
a) e-entrepreneurs. 
b) IT companies. 
c) e-businesses. 
d) web firms. 
e) i-businesses. 


2. Which of the following statements about the adhocracy design for e-businesses is NOT correct? 
a) many e-businesses adopted a variation of the adhocracy as their design pattern because the thinking was that e-business was fundamentally different from the old bricks and mortar operations. 
b) there are limits on the size of an effective adhocracy. 
c) managers of e-businesses forgot two important liabilities of the adhocracy as the firms grew. 
d) the actual delivery of products and services requires continual innovation more than responsiveness to clients and maintaining efficiency. 
e) the adhocracy design enabled the e-businesses companies to have great Web sites, but they were grossly inefficient. 


3. The __________ is the set of cultural, economic, legal-political, and educational conditions found in the areas in which the organization operates. 
a) internal environment. 
b) specific environment. 
c) widespread environment. 
d) general environment. 
e) comprehensive environment. 


4. The owners, suppliers, distributors, government agencies, and competitors with which an organization must interact to grow and survive constitute its __________. 
a) comprehensive environment. 
b) specific environment. 
c) internal environment. 
d) indigenous environment. 
e) general environment. 


5. __________ refers to the magnitude of the problems and opportunities in the organization- environment, as evidenced by three main factors: the degree of richness, the degree of interdependence, and the degree of uncertainty stemming from both the general and the specific environments. 
a) environmental turbulence. 
b) environmental intricacy. 
c) environmental agitation. 
d) environmental complexity. 
e) environmental munificence.




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