Answer the following written questions.

1. According to you, how can the problem of being too locally responsive be solved? Justify your answer.

2. When the aim is to create products for a world market and manufacture them on a global scale in a few highly efficient plants, which international strategy would be most appropriate in your opinion?

3. According to you, how should a company handle a situation in which it is facing pressure to be both locally responsive and globally integrated? Justify if adopting a transnational strategy would be the best option in this scenario.

4. Evaluate the argument that the advantage of a functional structure is its efficiency in coordinating all the people who work on different tasks.

5. Widget Corp. aims to manufacture and sell its products in different countries across the globe. Between divisional structure and functional structure, which one do you think would be a better organizational structure for Widget Corp.?