WayWard Products has a deliberate strategy to encourage internal innovations. It has established processes to support autonomous strategic behavior as well as induced strategic behavior. WayWard Products is involved in:

__________ is an important influence in Japanese corporate governance structures.

The dimensions on which functional departments can vary include all of the following EXCEPT __________ orientation.

For which of the following reasons have large pharmaceutical companies been forming alliances with biotechnology companies?

The board of directors for TundraPro, Inc., is searching for a new CEO. The firm is in need of new direction after suffering several years of declining performance and increasingly demoralized management and employees. The board has decided it needs a CEO who can be a transformational leader. To this specific end, the board needs to identify applicants who have:

The cooperative multidivisional firm:

An agency relationship exists when one party delegates decision-making responsibility to a second party for compensation

Given the demands for greater accountability and improved performance, which of the following is NOT a voluntary change many boards of directors have initiated?

__________ provide information about the results of past actions, but do not communicate the drivers of the firm’s future performance.

Strategic control focuses on the __________ of strategic actions, whereas financial controls focus on the __________ of strategic actions.