McDonald’s Corporations has formed a very successful global strategy and centralized organizational structure. Even though McDonald’s restaurants are frequently franchises they all still received their products, food and packaging for the same vendors. Therefore, each McDonald’s location even outside the U.S. is still the same as any other location in another country. The McDonald’s organization has a multinational strategy which means the hierarchy’s of the company develop a decentralized organizational structure. This allows the decision making down to a lower level within the organization so that this way the multinational strategies will allow their international subsidiaries to form their own path. McDonald’s Corporations has maintained and steadily increased its history of rapid improvement and consistency within its internal and external organizational efficiency and products since its emergence.
The McDonald’s Company has utilized the four functions of management throughout their business history. Internal management utilizes the four functions to increase sales, expand rapidly and remain the market leader. Because the corporation has clearly and distinctively understood how to leverage their immense strengths McDonald’s has become a global leader in relations to the way people all
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