Regarding an IC's structures and systems
A) management must avoid changing them over time, to avoid disrupting operations.
B) they must be designed before a company can develop its strategy.
C) they must be consistent with the organization's environmental context.
D) they depend on the country in which the IC is headquartered.
E) they must ensure that control is dispersed to subsidiaries to compete successfully across international markets.

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As stated directly in the text, organizational design is a process that determines how a company should be organized to ensure its worldwide business activities are integrated in an efficient and effective manner. As suggested in Figure 10.1, an IC's structures and systems are consistent with each other, with the environmental context in which the organization is operating, and with the strategy the IC is using.

Regarding an IC's Structures and Systems