Potential weaknesses of the horizontal structure include: it is considered inflexible and slow in response to rapid changes in customer needs. determining core processes to organize around is often difficult. there is a failure to promote teamwork. views of organizational goals by employees focuses into too narrow of a perspective.

Suppose that, on the basis of a nation’s production possibilities curve, an economy must sacrifice 10,000 pizzas domestically to get the 1 additional industrial robot it desires but that it can get the robot from another country in exchange for 9,000 pizzas. now consider the following statement: “through international specialization and trade, a nation can reduce its opportunity cost of obtaining goods and thus ‘move outside its production possibilities curve.’”