Exam 7: Implementing the Strategy: Building Multidimensional Capabilities

Innovations can be stimulated by all of the following - revolutionary technological breakthroughs, emerging consumer trends, new competitive challenges and pending government regulations.

To succeed in the modern international operating environment, managers must be able to do all of the following, except:

In light of the dramatic changes in the organizational form of MNEs, which of the following do not receive enough attention from those who manage modern MNEs

The role of geographic (country) manager is often considered the acid test of general management potential and a necessary qualification on the resume of any candidate for a top management position. Discuss the critical role of the geographic (country) manager as a bicultural interpreter and detail some of the reasons for failure in both upward communication and downward communication between the subsidiary and headquarters.

In executing responsibilities for cross-border coordination, the global business manager will $\underline{not}$ typically

The characteristics that distinguish an effective and energizing global strategic vision do not include

The global business manager alone is responsible for formulating the strategic priorities of the MNE.

All of the following forces are contributing to the complexity and diversity encountered by MNEs in the 21^st century, except:

Worldwide functional managers would not occupy the following executive role in the MNE

You are employed at the headquarters of a large MNE. While visiting one of the firm's foreign operations, you overhear the following comment, "Top-level corporate management has become an increasingly burdensome cost centre in the modern transnational. Our company employs well-trained and highly skilled individuals as global business managers, worldwide functional managers and geographic (country) managers. To enhance performance, our firm should thin the ranks at the corporate executive level and allow the business, functional and geographic managers more liberty to coordinate their own activities." Upon returning to headquarters, you are advised that you are being promoted to a country manager position within the MNE. However, you have been asked to prepare a report on your observations from your recent trip before you leave to start your new role. Use this report as an opportunity to discuss your position in support of, or against, this perspective regarding top-level management.

In overseeing the worldwide distribution of key assets and resources, the global business manager is responsible for all of the following, except

In the geographic (country) manager's role as an information broker, the individual must engage in all of the following activities, except

To overcome the not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome that often prevails in international firms, which of the following techniques are not employed by the worldwide functional manager when facilitating the transfer of new ideas and innovations throughout the MNE

When products of high strategic importance are transferred internally between an MNE's business units, global business managers will prefer to facilitate these transfers via internal quasi-markets, rather than exerting direct control over quantities shipped and prices charged.