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Global Business Today Global 8th Edition Hill Test Bank
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Answers are at the end of each chapter
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Chapter 01 Globalization Tru
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e / False Questions
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1. As a result of globalization, we have been moving toward a world in which national economies are
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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. Tr
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ue False

3. A company has to be the size of a multinational giant to facilitate, and benefit from, the glo
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balization of markets. Y Y




True False

4. As a result of globalization, companies rarely need to customize marketing strategies, product fe
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atures, and operating practices in different countries.
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True False

5. Globalization has resulted in greater uniformity replacing diversity across national markets. Tr
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ue False

6. As firms follow each other around the world, they bring with them many of the assets that ser
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ved 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 to
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achieve the optimal dispersion of their productive activities to locations around the globe.
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True False

8. The World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and its sister institution the W
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orld Bank, and the United Nations were all created by voluntary agreement between individual nation-
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states.
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True False

,9. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were both created in 1944 by 44 nations tha
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t met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
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True False

10. The WTO is seen as the lender of last resort to nation-
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states whose economies are in turmoil and whose currencies are losing value against those of other nati
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ons.

True False

11. The IMF is less controversial than its sister institution, the World Bank. Tr
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ue False

12. In return for loans, the IMF requires nation-
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states to adopt specific economic policies aimed at returning their troubled economies to stability and gro
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wth.

True False

13. Foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs when a firm invests resources in business activities ou
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tside its home country.
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True False

14. After World War II, the advanced nations of the West committed themselves to increasing ba
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rriers to the free flow of goods, services, and capital between nations.
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True False

15. The Uruguay Round, held under the umbrella of GATT, extended GATT to cover services as well as
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manufactured goods. Y




True False

16. The lowering of trade and investment barriers allows firms to base production at the optimal loc
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ation for that activity.
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True False

17. As a result of international trade, the economies of the world’s nation-
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states are becoming less intertwined.
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True False

18. The globalization of markets and production and the resulting growth of world trade, foreign dir
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ect investment, and imports all imply that firms are finding it easier to protect themselves from
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the attack of foreign competitors.
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,True False

19. Containerization has revolutionized the transportation business, significantly lowering the costs of Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y




shipping goods over long distances.
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True False

20. While advances in telecommunications are creating a global audience, advances in tr
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ansportation are creating a global village. Y Y Y Y Y




True False

21. The real costs of information processing and communication have fallen dramatically in the past tw
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o decades.
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True False

22. The Internet has been a major force facilitating international trade in services. Tr
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ue False

23. Countries that markedly increased their share of world output from 1960 to 2010 included Ge
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rmany, France, and the United Kingdom.
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True False

24. The United States accounted for a significantly larger share of the world economy in 2011 than it did
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in the 1960's.
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True False

25. Beginning in the 1970s, European and Japanese firms began to shift labor-
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intensive manufacturing operations from developing nations to their home countries where labor cost
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s were lower.
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True False

26. The stock of foreign direct investment refers to the total cumulative value of foreign inv
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estments in a country. Y Y Y




True False

27. Throughout the 1990s, the amount of investment directed at both developed and developing na
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tions increased dramatically
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True False

, 28. Among developing nations, the largest recipient of foreign direct investment has been China. Tr
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ue False
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29. Although most international trade and investment is still conducted by large firms, many m
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edium-
size and small businesses are becoming increasingly involved in international trade and investment.
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True False

30. The rise of the Internet is increasing the barriers that small firms face in building international sal
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es.

True False

31. Many of the former Communist nations of Europe and Asia seem to share a commitment to de
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mocratic policies and free market economies.
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True False

32. In the past quarter century, the volume of cross-
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border trade and investment has been growing less rapidly than global output.
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True False

33. One concern frequently voiced by globalization opponents is that falling barriers to international tra
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de destroy manufacturing jobs in wealthy advanced economies such as the United States and western Euro
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pe.

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34. It is possible that economic growth in developed nations has offset the fall in the share of nati
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onal income enjoyed by unskilled workers, raising their living standards.
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True False




35. One concern of globalization opponents is that it undermines the influence of supranational or
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ganizations and promotes the sovereignty of individual nation-states.
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True False

36. In general, as countries get richer, they enact tougher environmental and labor regulations.
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O.C. Ferrell, Debbie M. Thorne, Linda Ferrell Business & Society
Publisher: 2023 ISBN: 9781948426534 Edition: Unknown

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