1. ECO 550 Week 8 Chapter Questions
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Week 8 Chapter 13 Question 6
Even before the metals and manufacturing companies described earlier, U.S. railroads in
the nineteenth century were M-form organizations based on geography. Why might a large
railroad be better organized as M-form than U-form?
Week 8 Chapter 13 Question 11
11. Your university is probably an M-form organization. Its president administers schools,
for example, a college of business and a college of liberal arts, the college of business. Each
of these in turn has a dean who is responsible for faculty departments such as economics
and finance. Why is an M-form more likely than a U-form to be an efficient way of
organizing a university and to organize the schools within it?
In most universities faculty with specialized interests will often attempt to break off from
existing departments and form ones devoted to their own specialties. Do you expect that
this will produce an inefficiently large number of departments? Why do you expect that
pressure by employees to form fragmented departments will be a smaller problem in for-
profit corporations than in nonprofit or governmental universities?
Week 8 chapter 14 question 12
12. A small-volume foreign auto maker limits the number of its franchised dealers in the
United States and gives them exclusive territories. There are also non-dealers who have no
official connection with the manufacturer. They buy its cars overseas and sell them in the
United States, a phenomenon sometimes called a “gray market.”& nbsp;If you are a
manufacturer do you necessarily want the gray market to cease to exist? Why or why not?
How about if you are a franchised dealer?