Exam 9: Strategy Implementation: Global Strategy

To obtain a solid position in the profitable North American beer market, InBev of Belgium purchased Anheuser-Busch. This was an example of which means of international entry?

A study of 79 MNCs revealed that international transfer pricing from one country unit to another is primarily used not to evaluate performance but to minimize taxes.

The percentage of U.S.-based expatriate managers who fail to adjust to a host country's social and business environment is

For a multi-national corporation (MNC) to be considered global, it must manage its worldwide operations as if they were totally interconnected.

Suboptimization in the MNC refers to

What percent of corporate officers report using the same evaluation techniques for foreign and domestic operations?

Which means of international entry is a variation of the turnkey operation?

Of those expatriate managers who completed an assignment, what percent left their company within one year of returning home?

Most human resource managers fail to develop the training necessary for international assignments because

Turnkey operations are typically contracts for the construction of operating facilities in exchange for a fee.

Production sharing is often called outsourcing.

The establishment of its own sales company with offices in other countries to eliminate the middlemen and to better control marketing occurs in which stage of international development?

Transferring profits from a foreign subsidiary to the parent corporation through dividends, royalties, or management fees is called

Which of the following is not one of the ways MNCs can reduce taxes and capture profits from a subsidiary?

What is the activity that occurs in the last stage of international development?

The global MNC faces the dual challenge of achieving scale economies through standardization while at the same time responding to

Only ________ of human resource managers have ever worked abroad, so most have little understanding of a global assignment's unique personal and professional challenges and thus fail to develop the training necessary for such an assignment.

The three most widely used techniques for international performance evaluation are

When designing a plan for repatriation,

Which types of controls are recommended for a global MNC versus a multi-domestic MNC?