Path dependence is:
- the influence of past stages in organizational development on future decisions and actions
- the influence of future organizational development on future decisions and actions
- depending on past decision making to inform future routes to strategic success
- the influence of the past environment on the environment of the future
Refinement, production, choice, efficiency, selection, implementation and execution using existing knowledge is:
- exploration
- exportation
- exploitation
- expedition
A persistent resistance to changing organizational features is known as?
- fitness
- inertia
- exploration
- exportation
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of hypercompetition?
- rapidly escalating competition
- high uncertainty
- homogeneity of players
- disequilibrium and change
Normative isomorphism relates to:
- political influence
- legitimacy constraints
- uncertainty
- professionalization
If a firm has low variety of capability and low speed to activate them, it is said to have which type of flexibility?
- structural
- strategic
- operational
- steady-state
Which of the following is not relevant to a firm with adapting manoeuvring capacity?
- multifunctional teams
- crash teams
- changing managerial roles
- alternations in control systems
If top management is active in relation to the environment and middle management are passive, this will lead to:
- emergent renewal
- directed renewal
- facilitated renewal
- transformational renewal
What metaphor is applied to the tension between strategic renewal and survival?
- White Queen
- Red Queen
- poison pill
- best case
Ambidexterity is:
- ability to achieve high levels of exploitation
- ability to achieve high levels of exploration
- ability to achieve high levels of exploitation and exploration
- ability to achieve high levels of exploitation and low levels of exploration