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Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 16e, Global Edition (Laudon)
Chapter 3 Information Systems, Organizations, and Strategy
1) The interaction between information technology and organizations is influenced:
A) solely by the decision making of middle and senior managers.
B) by the development of new information technologies.
C) by many factors, including structure, politics, culture, and environment.
D) by two main macroeconomic forces: capital and labor.
E) by the rate of growth of the organization.
2) Which of the following statements about organizations is not true?
A) An organization is a stable, formal social structure that takes resources from the environment
and processes them to produce outputs.
B) An organization is a formal, legal entity with internal rules and procedures that must abide by
laws.
C) An organization is a collection of people and other social elements.
D) An informal group can be considered to be an organization.
E) An organization is a collection of rights, privileges, obligations, and responsibilities delicately
balanced over a period of time through conflict and conflict resolution.
3) According to the ________ definition of organizations, an organization is seen as a means by
which capital and labor are transformed by the organization into outputs to the environment.
A) microeconomic
B) macroeconomic
C) sociotechnical
D) behavioral
E) psychological
4) Which of the following statements about the technical view of organizations is not true?
A) It focuses on how inputs are combined to create outputs when technology changes are
introduced into a company.
B) It sees capital and labor as being easily substituted for one another.
C) It emphasizes group relationships, values and structures.
D) It sees the organization as a social structure similar to a machine.
E) It sees the firm as being infinitely malleable.
5) Which of the following is not a major feature of organizations that impacts the use of information
systems?
A) Business processes
B) Environments
C) Structure of the organization
D) Agency costs
E) Leadership styles
6) Which of the following statements about business processes is not true?
A) Business processes influence the relationship between an organization and information
technology.
B) Business processes are a collection of standard operating procedures.
1.The costs incurred when a firm buys on the marketplace what it cannot make itself arereferred to astransaction costsP. 3762.Disintermediation is defined asthe elimination of layers in the distribution process.P.3793.The four major types of competitive strategy are:low-cost leadership; productdifferentiation; focus on market niche; and customer and supplier intimacy.P. 964.Information asymmetry existswhen one party in a transaction has more importantinformation than the other.P.3785.When a firm provides a specialized product or service for a narrow target market betterthan competitors, they are usinga market niche strategy. P. 1096.Internet technologymakes it easy for rivals to compete on price alone. P.1017.The Internet raises the bargaining power of customers bymaking information available toeveryone.P.99
18) When a firm buys on the marketplace what it cannot make itself, the costs incurred arereferred to asA) switching costs.B) network costs.C) procurement.D) agency costs.E) transaction costs.Answer:EPage Ref: 89
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