The issue with centralized versus decentralized decision making is that

A. it is always easy to find out which is better, but not all may agree.
B. centralization is always better because one person controls all information.
C. decentralization is always better because many people can split the tasks.
D. it is difficult to find out whether one is better than the other in the hierarchy.


Answer: D

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