Exam 4: Global Management: Managing Across Borders

Horatio,the CEO of a struggling company,is excited about his trip to New York City to start participating in a global bartering group that will develop business relationships and exchange their products and services.This is an example of free trade.

The GLOBE project is an ongoing cross-cultural investigation of nine cultural dimensions involved in ___ processes.

A small but groundbreaking committee,headed by Al Gore,that theorized global warming was known as the GLOBE project.

ASEAN is a(n)_____.

As part of becoming a world citizen,Joe,who is from Michigan and who is transferring to the Paris office,is trying to do things to ___.

Don,the CEO of Pie Technology,announced in a conference call the corporate strategic goal of operations in several countries.When this long-term vision by Don is realized,it would qualify Pie Technology as a multinational corporation.

Dominique owns an international grocery store where customers can purchase products from other countries.Dominique's store is an example of a company that ____.

The trading bloc consisting of 28 trading partners in Europe is the ____.

Within the European Union,most internal trade barriers have been eliminated,giving the EU an association of borderless neighbors and the world's largest free market.

When communicating across cultures,the best option regarding language use is _____.

Becoming a world citizen includes being global in focus and learning how _____.

The study of international management is not important for some people because most individuals and companies are not affected by global companies.

Last week Paul,CEO of Quality Furniture in South Carolina,traveled to Europe to visit customers.While overseas,Paul checked his e-mail daily and visited his company's website to show to customers.After visiting the last customer Friday morning,Paul was able to return to the corporate office to meet with his board of directors that night.This "shrinking" of time and space with air travel and electronic media defines ____.

ABC Investments has been advising customers financially since 1902.In 1989,ABC was able to open an office in Berlin,after the Berlin Wall came down.Later,ABC opened several offices in Asia when several Asian countries opened their economies to foreign investors,then as governments began to deregulate their economies,ABC was able to allow their global customers to move their money freely around the world.ABC Investment's experience is evidence of the three historic global changes which Rosabeth Moss Kantor of the Harvard Business School spoke of.

Tom and his fiancé Susan decided to have their wedding on a beach in Acapulco,Mexico.Some services for the wedding,such as the limousine and the catering services,were local.Throughout the weekend of the wedding,the couple found that workers and things for their wedding arrived late.In response,the Mexican workers remarked,"Ustedes tiene que ser flexibles," which in English means,you have to be flexible with time.This attitude regarding time is considered _____.

George,who owns an international grocery store in Ohio,has benefited highly from the trading bloc that allows him to purchase food products from Central American nations at a nice discount.With many of his customers from Costa Rica,the Dominican Republic and Guatemala,he has benefited from the trading bloc known as _____.

A group of 21 Pacific Rim countries whose purpose is to improve economic and political ties is known as the ____.

Don,a Texan,is a geologist employed with an oil drilling company who lives and works in Iran.Don is an example of a global-patriot.

A nonprofit organization with operations in several states is a multinational organization.

Contrast a multinational corporation and a multinational organization.