Shooting Star, Inc. has slow response to external changes, centralized decision making, and poor coordination across departments. It is likely structured:
A) along divisional lines.
B) along functional lines.
C) based on the team approach.
D) based on the virtual network approach.
E) based on the matrix approach.

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The slow response to external changes, centralized decision making, and poor coordination across departments all suggest a functional structure. In this type of structure, departments are organized by function (e.g. finance, marketing, operations) with each department having its own set of responsibilities and reporting to a central authority figure.