Exam 4: International Management and Cross-Cultural Competence

Discuss the difference between a global company and a transnational company.

Simple Touch Footwear Simple Touch Footwear, an American company that specializes in manufacturing shoes for women, has been producing shoes in the United States and selling them in foreign countries. Carla, the company's operations VP, feels that they should purchase a company in India to produce and market shoes to the Asian market. Carla argues that Simple Touch Footwear can get all the necessary personnel from headquarters to run the Indian operation so that tight control can be maintained. However, Nataryan, the marketing director born in India, argues that given the cultural differences, the company should hire only Indian nationals for the Indian subsidiary. Jerry, the company CEO, feels that Simple Touch Footwear should evolve into a company with a more geocentric attitude by hiring and developing the best people from all over the world. -Refer to Simple Touch Footwear. Simple Touch Footwear has a vision through their expansion in India of becoming a true ________ company.

Suzanna is viewed by coworkers as being compassionate, generous, considerate, and supportive. According to the GLOBE leadership styles, what type of leader is Suzanna?

According to your text, which of these is a highly situational language?

Relative to the GLOBE project cultural dimensions, ____ refers to the extent to which individuals are aggressive and confrontational with others?

Transnational companies rely on a blend of global and local strategies, as circumstances dictate.

All of the following are among the cross-cultural training techniques discussed in the text except

Which of these is a low-context culture?

Buying a foreign company is the only way to do international business.

The three-way alliance formed in 2010 between France's Renault, Japan's Nissan, and Germany's Daimler is a good example of international joint ventures/strategic alliance.

Geert Hofstede found American management theories to be universally applicable around the world.

____ is not one of the stages of the internationalization process.

Darden Restaurants, owners of Red Lobster offer evidence that global commerce goes beyond clothing and oil, as they purchase fish in 30 countries.

The appropriate interpersonal distance is about 18 inches when transacting face-to-face business anywhere in the world.

Eduardo is viewed by coworkers as a visionary person who inspires high performance by exhibiting integrity and decisiveness. What type of leader is Eduardo, according to the GLOBE project?

____ is not representative of polychronic culture.

Simple Touch Footwear Simple Touch Footwear, an American company that specializes in manufacturing shoes for women, has been producing shoes in the United States and selling them in foreign countries. Carla, the company's operations VP, feels that they should purchase a company in India to produce and market shoes to the Asian market. Carla argues that Simple Touch Footwear can get all the necessary personnel from headquarters to run the Indian operation so that tight control can be maintained. However, Nataryan, the marketing director born in India, argues that given the cultural differences, the company should hire only Indian nationals for the Indian subsidiary. Jerry, the company CEO, feels that Simple Touch Footwear should evolve into a company with a more geocentric attitude by hiring and developing the best people from all over the world. -Refer to Simple Touch Footwear. Carla's attitude toward international operations can be described as

Research tells us that culture shock tends to last twelve weeks or more.

Which of the following is recommended by Howard Perlmutter for measuring a company's degree of internationalization?

Geocentric companies staff all positions with the best available talent in the world.