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TESTBANK for Introduction to Global Business: Understanding the International Environment & Global Business Functions Chapter 1: The Rise of Globalization TRUE/F ALSE 1. With business becoming increasingly global, its success, fortunately, depends only on the domestic environment. ANS: F PTS:...

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,Chapter 1: The Rise of Globalization


TRUE/FALSE

1. With business becoming increasingly global, its success, fortunately, depends only on the
domestic environment.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 4 OBJ: LO: 01-01 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Comprehension

2. Even though business is global, the credit crisis of 2008, started by an American investment
bank, was limited to the American economy with fortunately no impact on the global
economy.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Challenging
REF: p. 3 OBJ: LO: 01-01 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Analysis

3. Key aspects of globalization include the elimination of barriers to trade and information
technology.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 5 OBJ: LO: 01-01 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Analysis

4. So far globalization has made it possible for goods, services, and capital, to cross national
borders but not technology and culture.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 5 OBJ: LO: 01-01 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Analysis

5. The “soft” qualities essential to globalization include openness, protectionism,
accountability, connectivity, democracy, and centralization.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Challenging
REF: p. 6 OBJ: LO: 01-01 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Analysis

6. A sustainable decoupling process would eventually lead to a multi-polar world—a world
economy in which the engines of growth could comprise the United States, the European
Union, China, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa rather than the United States alone.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Challenging
REF: p. 9 OBJ: LO: 01-01 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Analysis

, 7. The openness and proliferation of globalization and free trade rules can best be attributed to
the interwar period between World War I and II.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Challenging
REF: p. 10 OBJ: LO: 01-02 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Analysis

8. As part of the World Bank’s Strategic Framework, there are five focus areas that
accommodate and facilitate the globalization process including its analytical and advisory
role supporting national policies to strengthen free market institutions and infrastructure that
has provided the potential for creating large gains from trade.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Challenging
REF: p. 12 OBJ: LO: 01-02 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Evaluation

9. For World Trade Organization, increasing trade barriers has been one of the most simplistic
ways to encourage trade and globalization.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 13 OBJ: LO: 01-02 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Comprehension

10. The foundations of the globalized business world are political—and so are the biggest
threats to the system.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Challenging
REF: p. 15 OBJ: LO: 01-03 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Analysis

11. Countries that have successfully adapted to globalization realize that they cannot succeed
without high-quality government management at home.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 18 OBJ: LO: 01-04 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Comprehension

12. In communist and state-controlled economies like those in Central Asia property rights
either do not exist or are not well defined which discourages domestic and foreign investors
from making long-term commitments in these countries.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 18 OBJ: LO: 01-04 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Evaluation

13. More globalized economies like New Zealand and Singapore rank at the top in index for
absence of corruption by Transparency International.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Challenging

, REF: p. 19 OBJ: LO: 01-04 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Evaluation

14. Because broadband prices have been falling, governments in emerging economies such as
India and South Africa are facilitating the spread of broadband to rural towns and villages to
provide instant access to market information and government programs to remote villagers
which will enable policymakers to maximize the economic potential of remote communities
and make globalization sustainable.

ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 20 OBJ: LO: 01-05 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Information Technology KEY: Bloom's: Evaluation

15. Critics argue that open trade and foreign direct investment always take jobs from workers in
developing economies and transfer them to workers in advanced industrial countries which
leave the workers in the developing country, out of work.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Moderate
REF: p. 23 OBJ: LO: 01-06 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Evaluation

16. A survey by the World Bank indicates that of the companies surveyed; unfortunately, only
30 percent have board-approved policies on environmental management indicating that
corporate social responsibility practices have become an insignificant factor in determining
where multinational corporations conduct business.

ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Challenging
REF: p. 24 OBJ: LO: 01-06 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Evaluation

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Of the following, which is NOT true regarding the credit crisis?
a. It affected farmers in Burkina Faso.
b. It affected miners and steel workers in Ukraine.
c. It affected assemble-line workers in Singapore.
d. It affected white-collar workers at information technology firms in Ireland.
e. It had an impact only on its country of origin- the United States.
ANS: E PTS: 1 DIF: Difficulty: Easy
REF: p. 3 OBJ: LO: 01-01 NAT: BUSPROG: Analytic
STA: DISC: Environmental Influence KEY: Bloom's: Evaluation

2. Brazilian Juice, a manufacturer of healthy fruit juices in Brazil, sells juice in six different
countries including United States. Brazilian juice is engaging in
a. economic development in United States.
b. exercising nontariff barriers in Brazil.
c. unfair trade practices.
d. globalization.

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