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(a) With reference to Cathcart Industries pIe, analyse the potential advantages and disadvantages of

(i) maintaining the functional or unitary organization structure.

(ii) restructuring along a multidivisional product market basis.

(b) James Christopher views the restructuring as beneficial, at least from the point of view of developing costs of capital for each specific division. Explain the problems of using a single cost of capital to appraise all investment projects and the possible benefits of the approach he favours.