ABC International has just passed $250 million in sales,and its president decides to adopt a different organizational structure in order to better service its customers.The structure looks like this: -Commercial division.Focuses on all commercial customers and has its own product development and production employees.
-Retail division.Focuses on all retail customers in the United States,and has its own product development and production employees.
-International division.Focuses on all retail customers outside of the United States.It shares product development and production facilities with the retail division.
ABC International is now using a ____________ structure.

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The structure that ABC International has adopted is a divisional structure, which is characterized by separate divisions that focus on specific customer groups or markets. Each division has its own set of product development and production employees, which allows for greater customization and responsiveness to customer needs. The different divisions also share certain resources, such as the product development and production facilities that the retail and international divisions share. Therefore, choice E (divisional) is the best answer.

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