問題一覧
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Justice theories of business ethics focus on
the akainment of a fair and equitable distribution of goods and services.
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What impedes firms from achieving the optimal dispersion of their productive activities to locations around the globe?
transportation costs
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How does managing an international business differ from managing a domestic business?
Countries differ in their cultures and systems.
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A _ is the instrument normally used in international commerce to effect payment.
draft
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Porter argues that a nations firms gain competitive advantage if
their domestic consumers are sophisticated and demanding.
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A firm that is facing both strong cost pressures and strong pressures for local responsiveness should follow strategy.
Transnational
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The idea that businesspeople should consider the social consequences of economic actions when making business decisions and that there should be a presumption in favour of decisions that have both good economic and social consequences is knows as
corporate social responsibility
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In a(n) _ economy, the government plans the goods and services that a country produces, the quan7ty in which they are produced, and the prices at which they are sold.
command
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What is advantage of franchising?
firm is relieved of many of the costs and risks of opening a foreign market on its own.
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can be used when a government restricts the convertibility of its currency to preserve its foreign exchange reserves so they can be used to service International debt commitments and purchase crucial imports.
countertrade
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A firm benefits by basing each value creation activity it performs at that location where economic, political, and cultural conditions, including relative factor costs, are most conducive to the performance of that activity. Firms that pursue such a strategy can realize
location economies
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occurs when a firm agrees to purchase a certain amount of materials back from a country to which a sale is made.
counterpurchase
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When a time draft is drawn on and accepted by a business firm it is called a _
trade acceptance
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Which treaty, signed in February 1992, commiked EC members to adopting a common currency by January 1, 1999?
the Maastricht treaty
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The downside of increased globalisation is
a severe crisis in one region can affect the entire globe.
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In several Western democracies, the poor performance of state-owned enterprises, because of protection from competition and guaranteed government financial support, led to
privatisation
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The United States has raised taxes on avocados imported from Mexico. These taxes are an example of a(n)
tariff
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Which theory emphasizes the interplay between the proportions in which the factors of production are available in different countries and the proportions in which they are needed for producing particular goods?
Heckscher-Ohlin Theory
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The approaches to ethics hold that the moral worth of actions or practices is determined by their consequences.
utilitarian
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An International strategy is unique in that companies are selling a product that serves universal needs, but they do not
significant competition