After studying this chapter you will be able to understand: What a market basket is and why it’s important? How to calculate and use a price index? How to identify challenges the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) faces when measuring inflation? How the BLS responds to these challenges?. | Organizational Design and Control McGraw-Hill/Irwin International Business, 11/e Copyright © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. chapter fourteen Learning Objectives Explain why the design of organizational structure is important to international companies Discuss the organizational dimensions that must be considered when selecting organizational structures Discuss the various organizational forms available for structuring international companies Explain the concept of the virtual corporation 14- Learning Objectives Explain why decisions are made where they are among parent and subsidiary units of an international company Discuss how an IC can maintain control of a joint venture or of a company in which the IC owns less than 50 percent of the voting stock List the types of information an IC needs to have reported to it by its units around the world 14- Organizational Structure Organizational structure The way that an organization formally arranges its domestic and international units and activities, and the relationships among these various organizational components 14- Organization Design Organization design for international how an international business is organized in order to ensure worldwide business activities are able to be integrated efficiently and effectively Structures and systems must be consistent with each other and with the environmental context Size and complexity of the organization must be considered Structure must be able to evolve over time in order to respond to change 14- The relationship among International Environment, Competitive Strategy, and Organizational Structure 14- Design Concerns Find the most effective way to departmentalize to take advantage of efficiencies gained from specialization of labor Coordinate the activities of those departments to enable the firm to meet its overall objectives 14- Design Dimensions Product and technical expertise regarding the businesses Geographic . | Organizational Design and Control McGraw-Hill/Irwin International Business, 11/e Copyright © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. chapter fourteen Learning Objectives Explain why the design of organizational structure is important to international companies Discuss the organizational dimensions that must be considered when selecting organizational structures Discuss the various organizational forms available for structuring international companies Explain the concept of the virtual corporation 14- Learning Objectives Explain why decisions are made where they are among parent and subsidiary units of an international company Discuss how an IC can maintain control of a joint venture or of a company in which the IC owns less than 50 percent of the voting stock List the types of information an IC needs to have reported to it by its units around the world 14- Organizational Structure Organizational structure The way that an organization formally arranges its .
