Japanese Businesses Are Often Characterized by Their Slow Decision-Making Processes

Multiple Choice

Japanese businesses are often characterized by their slow decision-making processes: decisions that are made low on the hierarchy of power must often by accepted by each level up the corporate hierarchy in turn before they are actually implemented. This kind of decision making is characteristic of what kind of business culture?

A) high context
B) low context
C) collectivist
D) uncertainty avoidance
E) holistic thinking