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Stark Limited is a company that currently manufactures metal tubing. It has recently decided to open a series of new manufacturing plants within country H which it believes will help it to break into the European market. Which level of strategy planning would this decision relate to?Answer:
StrategicIn my reasoning, I chose functional. If strategic is a plan for the whole business and functional relates to objectives of how to meet the strategic plan…
Wouldn’t Strategic be: Break into the European Market
Functional: Open a series of new manufacturing plants within country H?Thanks!
Sorry, what do you mean by I need to explain further? Do you mean I need to expand on my reasoning? As I understand F1 is a multiple choice exam so I wouldn’t be able to expand on the exam itself.
I thought the difference between strategic and functional decision-making was quite clear based on their stand-alone definitions, but every time I see a question in practice the two seem to be mixed together. In this case, I would have thought opening new plants within a specific country would have been too specific to be categorised as strategic.
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