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Chapter 02: Assignment: The Environment and Corporate Culture Use your understanding of how organie adapt to the environment to complete the following sentences. Far decades, three major television networks dominated news and entertainment. Today's Increasing fragmentation of the media market along the lines of audience and technology is boundary-spanning that poses an opportunity for some media companies. Ford-Sollers, to manufacture and sell Ford Ford Motor Company and Russian auto maker Soliers formed a vehicles in Russia, with both companies having a 50 percent equity stake. For each example presented in the following table, Identify the strategy used for adapting to the environment Boundary spanning roles Joint ventures Mergers O Example Delaco Steel, a U.S. steelmaker, and ArcelorMittal, a Luxembourg steelmaker, work together to run two new inser welding plants, United Airlines buys Continental Airlines to create one airline company with more than 07,000 employees Pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca monitor the research going on in university laboratories to speed up the development of new drugs O