Evaluation of Organizational Structures and Functions for International Expansion: A Case Study of Just Eat

This presentation evaluates the organizational structures and functions of Just Eat for international expansion, including the impact of digital technologies. It covers functional areas, organizational structure, and factors affecting international expansion.

Project Brief:
Assume you are trainee in a firm of management consultants. As part of your induction process you have been asked to
research,
prepare and present information for an organisation of your choice.
The presentation should contain information on the structure of the organisation and its functions but also on the key
influences/factors
that have affected its international expansions in recent years.
Your Presentation should cover the following:
-The chosen organisation that has expanded into international markets, explain whether the organizational structures and
functions
are suitable to facilitate the expansion.
-Explain the impact of digital technologies have on their international expansion strategy.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• EVALUATION OF STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE ORGANSAIATION SUITABLE FOR
EXPANSION
• DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL AREAS IN THE CHOSEN ORGANISATION
• DIFFERENT ORGANISATION STRUCTURE RELATED STRUCTURE OF THE CHOSEN
ORGANISATION
• FACTORS THAT HAVE AFFECTED THE INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION OF THE ORGANISATION IN
RECENT YEARS
• THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES ON INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION STRATEGY
• REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
• According to Ardolino and et. al., (2018), business environment includes
the people, organisations and all the factors that can affect the whole
process of an organisation.
• It also helps in identifying the business opportunities, overall
performance and growth.
• The presentation is discussing about the various organisational
structures and functional areas of the business associated with
various stakeholder groups (Ardolino and et. al., 2018).
• Along with it, the presentation is discussing about the factors affecting
its international expansion with relevance to macro environmental
factors.
• It will include use of strategic business model such as PESTLE and
relevant business functional units for the business firm.

EVALUATION OF STRUCTURES AND
FUNCTIONS OF THE ORGANSAIATION
SUITABLE FOR EXPANSION
ABOUT THE ORGANISATION
Just eat which is a British online food order service and it is one of the leading firm in the
market as it has a strong base of suppliers that helps in bringing the consistency of the
quality to meet the demands of the company. It is a link between restaurants and consumers
in the takeaway food service
SERVICES
It is a link between restaurants and consumers that allows the user to search for local
restaurants so that they can place orders online and pay online for the selected order. It
provides a wide variety of food choice.
BUSINESS SIZE AND TURNOVER
The respective company i.e., Just Eat operates as a large type business organisation. The
provided data can backed up with 3,135 million turnover of the firm in recent FY 2020.

DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL AREAS IN THE
CHOSEN ORGANISATION
From early roots, JustEat's platform has evolved significantly. In this example, humble
beginnings imply a monolithic architecture. For a long time, this served Just Eat well,
but as the system's load grew, the technical team grew, and the business's ambitions
grew, the system needed to be divided up.
Marketing: The marketing function of a business firm is an inclusive of performing
promotional tasks within the workforce. This engages better course of operation for the
corporate firm through which their sales and profit margins could be increased while
operating in business environment.
Finance: Under this element of business structure financial tasks are being taken into
consideration. In the process being financial resources of the firm are being integrating
with other operational activities of the business firm(Katsikea, Theodosiou and Makri,
2019).

ORGANISATION STRUCTURE RELATED
STRUCTURE OF JUST EAT
Functional organisation structure- This structure allows
the employees to focus on their job role that will lead to
allow them to be more specialized and that will help and
various departments by being more specific in their skills
and various functions of the business.
Hierarchical organisation structure- It is presented in the
form of pyramid shaped and hierarchical organisation
structure is said to be one of the most common type of
organisation structure that is used to manage the various
level of authority and responsibility in the company.

FACTORS THAT HAVE AFFECTED THE
INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION OF THE
ORGANISATION IN RECENT YEARS
Foreign politics
As the business are influenced by policies,
laws, politics and relationships among
different countries.
Market drivers
It includes social, technological,
economical, environmental, legal, political
and ethical factors.

PESTLE ANALYSIS
Political: This includes factors consisting of political laws and
regulations that needs to be taken into consideration by Just eat .
Economic: This includes external factors such as economic rates
examples; Inflation, consumer income etc. which also needs to be taken
into consideration by the business firm.
Social: This includes social believes of regional individuals that is to be
taken into consideration by managers at provided firm.
Technology: This includes use of innovative technology that will
progress enhanced development of the business firm.
Legal: This includes legal formalities that a business firm needs to be
engaged for completion of operational tasks.
Environmental: This includes environmental laws to safeguard
sustainable working of the firm.

THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES ON
INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION STRATEGY
According to Monden and Talbot, (2019), As the digital
technology is increasing and it is transforming the society
such as social media is connecting almost half of the
population as it also allows people to express their opinion
and it also allows to keep the people connected by the videos,
audios, words, websites, apps and many others. It has affected
the society in a positive manner such as various lessons and
courses can also be learnt virtually. It has also made machines
more smarter and it also allows to keep the storage of the
massive data of the information in small spaces (Monden and
Talbot, 2019).

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