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Views on Globalization - correct answers ✔✔New, Evolutionary, and Pendulum
"New" view on globalization - correct answers ✔✔A force sweeping through the world in recent
times.
"Evolutionary" view on globalization - correct answers ✔✔A long-run historical evolution since
the dawn of human history
"Pendulum" view on globalization - correct answers ✔✔One that swings from one extreme to
another from time to time
Foreign Direct Investment - correct answers ✔✔Direct investment in, control, and management
of value-added activities in other countries
Political views on FDI - correct answers ✔✔Radical View, Free Market View, Pragmatic
Nationalism
Benefits to a country receiving FDI - correct answers ✔✔Capital Inflow, Technology Spillover,
Advanced Management Know-How, Job creation
Costs to a country receiving FDI - correct answers ✔✔Loss of Sovereignty, Adverse effects on
competition,
,Capital outflow.
How do resources and capabilities influence the competitive dynamics of a business? - correct
answers ✔✔Resource similarity and market commonality can yield a powerful framework for
competitor analysis.
Resource similarity - correct answers ✔✔The extent to which a given competitor possesses
strategic endowment comparable, in terms of both type and amount, to those of the focal firm.
How does resource similarity impact competitive dynamics? - correct answers ✔✔Firms with a
high degree are likely to have similar competitive actions. (Starbuck's instant coffee &
McDonald's iced coffee)
Classical theories of international trade - correct answers ✔✔Mercantilism, Absolute advantage,
and Comparative advantage
Modern theory view - correct answers ✔✔Dynamic
Classical theory view - correct answers ✔✔Static
Absolute advantage - correct answers ✔✔The economic advantage one nation enjoys that is
superior to other nations
Comparative advantage - correct answers ✔✔The advantage one economic activity nation
enjoys in comparison with other nations (relative, not absolute)
Mercantilism - correct answers ✔✔A theory that suggests that the wealth of the world is fixed
and that a nation that exports more and imports less will be richer.
, Features of the product life cycle? - correct answers ✔✔New, Maturing, and Standardized
Strategic trade - correct answers ✔✔Intervention by governments in certain industries can
enhance their odds for international success.
How are supply and demand related to the exchange rate of a country? - correct answers
✔✔The price of a commodity, a country's currency, is fundamentally determined by this. Strong
demand leads to price hikes; oversupply results in price drops.
Which theory came first? - correct answers ✔✔Mercantilism (although both are of the idea that
governments should actively protect domestic industries from imports and vigorously promote
exports)
If a company seeks to limit foreign exchange rate exposure in the forward direction, what is the
most effective way to do this? - correct answers ✔✔Forward transactions, an act know as
currency hedging.
Transaction risk - correct answers ✔✔The exchange rate risk associated with the time delay
between entering into a contract and settling it.
Hedging - correct answers ✔✔A transaction, such as forward transactions, that protects traders
and investors from exposure to the fluctuations of the spot rate.
Currency hedging - correct answers ✔✔A way to protect traders and investors from being
exposed to the fluctuations of the spot rate
Strategic hedging - correct answers ✔✔A means of spreading out activities in different currency
zones in order to offset the currency losses in certain regions through gains in other regions
(currency diversification)