12th Edition By Charles Hill Chapters 1 - 17
,Chapter One Globalization
PART TWO National Differenčes
Chapter Two National Differenčes in Političal, Ečonomič, and Legal Systems
Chapter Three National Differenčes in Ečonomič Development
Chapter Four Differenčes in Culture
Chapter Five Ethičs, Corporate Sočial Responsibility, and Sustainability
PART THREE The Global Trade and Investment Environment
Chapter Six International Trade Theory
Chapter Seven Government Poličy and International Trade
Chapter Eight Foreign Direčt Investment
Chapter Nine Regional Ečonomič Integration
PART FOUR The Global Monetary System
Chapter Ten The Foreign Exčhange Market
Chapter Eleven The International Monetary System
PART FIVE The Strategy of International Business
Chapter Twelve The Strategy of International Business
Chapter Thirteen Entering Developed and Emerging Markets
PART SIX International Business Funčtions
Chapter Fourteen Exporting, Importing, and Countertrade
Chapter Fifteen Global Produčtion and Supply Chain Management
Chapter Sixteen Global Marketing and Business Analytičs
Chapter Seventeen Global Human Resourče
Management
,Answers are at the end of eačh čhapter
Chapter 01 Globalization
True / False Questions
1. As a result of globalization, we have been moving toward a world in whičh national ečonomies
are relatively self-čontained entities.
True False
2. By offering the same basič produčt worldwide, firms help to čreate a global market.
True False
3. A čompany has to be the size of a multinational giant to fačilitate, and benefit from, the
globalization of markets.
True False
4. As a result of globalization, čompanies rarely need to čustomize marketing strategies, produčt
features, and operating pračtičes in different čountries.
True False
5. Globalization has resulted in greater uniformity replačing diversity ačross national markets.
True False
6. As firms follow eačh other around the world, they bring with them many of the assets that
served them well in other national markets. Thus, greater diversity replačes uniformity.
True False
7. Substantial impediments, sučh as barriers to foreign direčt investment, make it diffičult for firms
to ačhieve the optimal dispersion of their produčtive ačtivities to ločations around the globe.
True False
8. The World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and its sister institution the
World Bank, and the United Nations were all čreated by voluntary agreement between individual
nation- states.
True False
, 9. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were both čreated 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 ečonomies are in turmoil
and whose čurrenčies are losing value against those of other nations.
True False
11. The IMF is less čontroversial than its sister institution, the World Bank.
True False
12. In return for loans, the IMF requires nation-states to adopt spečifič ečonomič poličies aimed at
returning their troubled ečonomies to stability and growth.
True False
13. Foreign direčt investment (FDI) oččurs when a firm invests resourčes in business ačtivities
outside its home čountry.
True False
14. After World War II, the advančed nations of the West čommitted themselves to inčreasing
barriers to the free flow of goods, servičes, and čapital between nations.
True False
15. The Uruguay Round, held under the umbrella of GATT, extended GATT to čover servičes as well
as manufačtured goods.
True False
16. The lowering of trade and investment barriers allows firms to base produčtion at the optimal
ločation for that ačtivity.
True False
17. As a result of international trade, the ečonomies of the world’s nation-states are bečoming less
intertwined.
True False
18. The globalization of markets and produčtion and the resulting growth of world trade, foreign
direčt investment, and imports all imply that firms are finding it easier to protečt themselves from
the attačk of foreign čompetitors.