Exam 4: Managing in the Global Environment

Today global exchanges are becoming so complex that some companies specialize solely in managing other companies' global supply chains.

Governments of countries that resort to raising tariff barriers ultimately increase employment.

A shift in the age distribution of the population of the United States is an example of a sociocultural force that affects organizations in the United States.

Organizations that help other organizations to sell their goods to customers are known as ________.

Ideas about what a society believes to be good, right, desirable, or beautiful are called ________.

The routine data entry tasks for a California-based software company are done by a company based in the Philippines. This is an example of ________.

Values are deeply embedded in society and ________.

A society has a common practice that men should remove their hats whenever they ride in elevators that are also carrying women. This is an example of which type of norm?

In the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), what percentage of the tariffs on the goods traded between Mexico, Canada, and the United States were to be abolished by the year 2004?

An organization's major customer puts pressure on the organization to reduce prices on its products. This is an example of influence exerted by the organization's ________ environment.

The set of forces and conditions that originate with global suppliers, distributors, customers, and competitors and affect an organization's ability to obtain inputs and dispose of its outputs is the ________ environment.

Val comes from a culture that values equality works for the improvement of the welfare of the less fortunate and values warm personal relationships more than goal achievement. Val's culture has ________.

A high percentage of the customers of Action Sport purchase Action Sport shoes at least three-fourths of the time that they purchase shoes. In the context of barriers to entry, this product has a large degree of ________.

Heartz Ltd. provides Glayton Technologies with input resources that it needs to produce its products. In this context, which of the following categories does Heartz Ltd. belong to?

It is easier to obtain customers and keep prices high in a task environment where there are few ________.

In an organization's general environment, inflation is an example of a(n) ________ force.

Companies from the nation of Atlantis are more efficient in the production of certain types of apparel, while companies from the U.S. are more efficient in the production of certain types of computers. Which economic theory predicts that capital would move to Atlantis to be invested there in the apparel industry, and to the United States to be invested in its computer companies?

The cost advantages that are associated with large operations are known as ________.

While the typical organization in the United States emphasizes the importance of the group, the typical organization in Japan emphasizes the importance of the individual.

What are technological forces? Explain their implications for managers and organizations.