Everything else equal, if a firm increases the dividend that it pays from $4 to $5: a. demand for the stock will decrease among investors who prefer to receive current income from their investments. b. more money will be available to invest in capital budgeting projects. c. its future growth rate will decrease. d. the firm should expect many of the investors who held the stock prior to the increase to sell their stock e. its operating income will increase.

Sunset foods relies on a highly centralized functional structure to ensure consistency in the quality and taste of its products and to drive down costs via process innovations. however, as a consequence of its highly compartmentalized structure, the firm has found it difficult to transfer information and ideas from one department to the next. with the launch of its new line of breakfast foods coming up, how can sunset improve its ability to collaborate without sacrificing the benefits of its current structure