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Q See attached chapter 3 outline -- download the file to your computer -- answer the SEVEN questions at the end of outline - Make the length of each answer TO EACH question between 50 to 200 words -- Don't attach your answers - paste them in a NEW thread FIVE discussion questions and TWO questions about case -- good luck -- edit your answers before submission 1. Pick an organization, such as a local travel agency or supermarket. Describe its organizational domain; then draw a map of the forces in its general and specific environments that affect the way it operates. 2. What are the major sources of uncertainty in the environment? Discuss how these sources of uncertainty affect a small biotechnology company and a large carmaker.3. According to resource dependence theory, what motivates organizations to form inter-organizational linkages? What is the advantage of using strategic alliances as a way of exchanging resources?4. According to transaction cost theory, what motivates organizations to form inter-organizational linkages? Under what conditions would a company prefer a more formal linkage mechanism to a less formal one?5. What inter-organizational strategies might work most successfully as a company expands globally? Why?

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Walmart Inc. is a retail supermarket chain organization which has its organizational domain in upper and middle class customers looking for retail products in the locality. Government can be a force which can make Walmart do things according to the ways of the government of operations. Then there can be customers forcing the organization to make changes to suit the preferences/priorities of the customer. There are also suppliers of Walmart as well as other competing organizations doing business like Walmart.