Exam 2: Environmental Contraints on Managers

What could a Canadian manufacturer do to ensure a successful partnership with a foreign distributor?

Before you conclude your speech,you intend to explain how the WTO operates as ________.

Societies which highly value achievement would tend to be ________.

You also plan to discuss other regional trading alliances like the one in Southeast Asia called ________.

Explain the differences between a multidomestic corporation,a multinational corporation,and a transnational corporation.

Why should organizations be concerned with managing external stakeholder relationships?

The Environmental Uncertainty Matrix ranges in complexity from "stable to dynamic" on the horizontal axis and from "simple to complex" (degree of change)on the vertical axis.

As more consumers have become aware of the use of rendered feed and the poor treatment of chickens in many large-scale poultry farms,some farm managers have switched to all-natural feed and "free range" breeding methods.This is an example of how changing ________ conditions can affect an organization.

In a strategic alliance,companies join together to form a separate entity to produce a product.

Refer to the Scenario below to answer the questions that follow. Business Expansion Plan (Scenario) As a business expansion director,Shana's goal is to scout potential locations for her company's planned expansion to other countries.There are many options,some of which include maintaining the business's head office in Canada.Other options include sending company representatives to foreign operations when necessary,or establishing separate operation facilities abroad and hiring locals as managers. -If Shana's company decides to open operations in France but maintains company management in Canada,it would be considered a ________.

Which of the following definitions is most accurate for a multinational corporation?

Refer to the Scenario below to answer the questions that follow. The European Expansion (Scenario) As a manager at a growing Canadian company,Samantha has been asked to develop a strategy to expand the company's operations into the European market.Although the company president has provided some basic guidelines about acceptable levels of risk and investment,there are still many factors in the legal/political,economic,and cultural environments that Samantha must take into consideration in her proposal. -Samantha is considering whether her company should open a subsidiary in Germany or Italy.She is wondering which country's culture would be better suited to her company,since research indicates that ________.

Managers try to minimize ________ because it is a threat to an organization's effectiveness.

If Jeff's company eliminated country-designated locations and reorganized based on industry groups,it would best be described as a ________.

Explain what is meant by the term "born global."

For most organizations,the most rapidly changing factor has been ________ conditions.

The cultural dimension of ________ measures the degree to which the members of a society expect power to be unequally shared.

A firm in South America wants to open a TJ Soft store in a shopping mall.What is the best approach for this firm?

Demographic conditions are part of the organization's general environment.

Licensing and franchising typically follow the export-import phase of globalization.