TEST BANK For Global Business Today, 12th Edition By Charles Hill 9781264067503 Chapters 1 - 17, Complete Guide. PART ONE Introduction and Overview Chapter One Globalization PART TWO National Differences Chapter Two National Differences in Political, Economic, and Legal Systems Chapter Three Nation...
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1. As a result of globalization, we have been moving toward a world in which national economies
are relatively self-contained entities.
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True False
2. By offering the same basic product worldwide, firms help to create a global market.
True False
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3. A company has to be the size of a multinational giant to facilitate, and benefit from, the
globalization of markets.
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True False
4. As a result of globalization, companies rarely need to customize marketing strategies, product
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features, and operating practices in different countries.
True False
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5. Globalization has resulted in greater uniformity replacing diversity across national markets.
True False
O
6. As firms follow each other around the world, they bring with them many of the assets that
served them well in other national markets. Thus, greater diversity replaces uniformity.
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True False
7. Substantial impediments, such as barriers to foreign direct investment, make it difficult for firms
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to achieve the optimal dispersion of their productive activities to locations around the globe.
True False
8. The World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and its sister institution the
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World Bank, and the United Nations were all created by voluntary agreement between individual
nation- states.
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True False
, 9. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were both created in 1944 by 44 nations
that met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
True False
10. The WTO is seen as the lender of last resort to nation-states whose economies are in turmoil
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and whose currencies are losing value against those of other nations.
True False
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11. The IMF is less controversial than its sister institution, the World Bank.
True False
12. In return for loans, the IMF requires nation-states to adopt specific economic policies aimed at
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returning their troubled economies to stability and growth.
True False
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13. Foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs when a firm invests resources in business activities
outside its home country.
N
True False
14. After World War II, the advanced nations of the West committed themselves to increasing
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barriers to the free flow of goods, services, and capital between nations.
True False
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15. The Uruguay Round, held under the umbrella of GATT, extended GATT to cover services as well
as manufactured goods.
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True False
16. The lowering of trade and investment barriers allows firms to base production at the optimal
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location for that activity.
True False
17. As a result of international trade, the economies of the world’s nation-states are becoming less
intertwined.
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True False
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18. The globalization of markets and production and the resulting growth of world trade, foreign
direct investment, and imports all imply that firms are finding it easier to protect themselves from
the attack of foreign competitors.
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