BUSI 3250 LATEST COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Nation's relative ability to design, produce, distribute, or service products within an
international trading context while earning increasing returns on its resources -
✔✔National Competitiveness
✔✔Do companies tend to cluster? - ✔✔Companies tend to cluster based on
expertise/needs which allows for creating competitive advantages
✔✔Why do regional clusters (like Alabama's automotive industry) give firms the upper
hand? - ✔✔because they can pool a labor force, use specialized local suppliers, and
share technological information
✔✔Aesthetics refers to - ✔✔a culture's sense of beauty and good taste
✔✔Aesthetics - ✔✔-Expressed through art, drama, music, folklore, dance, etc
-Also applies to ideas about body and physical beauty
- Folklore conveys powerful connotations and emotions: must be used carefully in
marketing
(ex. Fang-like teeth in Japan)
, ✔✔Religion - ✔✔important component of culture; responsible for many attitudes and
beliefs.
✔✔How can religion impact a government? - ✔✔Religion can impact how a government
is run - theocracies - examples include Vatican City Yemen Saudi Arabia Sudan Iran
Mauritania Afghanistan
✔✔Religion impacts how people... - ✔✔think and influences their actions
✔✔Family planning - Catholicism and abortion is an example of how... - ✔✔religion
impacts government policies
✔✔How many languages in the world are there? - ✔✔7,000 languages in the world
✔✔What percent of languages in the world are in danger of extinction? - ✔✔40% are in
danger of extinction, many with less than 1,000 people speaking the language
✔✔How many languages account for more than ½ the world's population - ✔✔23
languages
✔✔What does Hall's high and low context do? - ✔✔Classifies cultures based on
communication styles and role of context
✔✔In high context cultures, much of communication is conveyed by __________ -
✔✔context
✔✔high-context culture - ✔✔-Japan, China, many other Asian, Latin American, and
African cultures.
-Social ties are long-standing and close; communication tends to be implicit and
indirect.
-Tends to be polychronic
✔✔In low context cultures, most communication carried in ________________ -
✔✔words
✔✔low-context culture - ✔✔-U.S., Canada, other Anglo cultures, Germany, and
Scandinavian cultures.
-Social ties are of shorter duration; communication is explicit.
-Tends to be monochronic
✔✔High Context - ✔✔- Less verbally explicit communication; less written/formal
information
- More internalized understandings of what is communicated
- Multiple cross-cutting ties and intersections with others
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Nation's relative ability to design, produce, distribute, or service products within an
international trading context while earning increasing returns on its resources -
✔✔National Competitiveness
✔✔Do companies tend to cluster? - ✔✔Companies tend to cluster based on
expertise/needs which allows for creating competitive advantages
✔✔Why do regional clusters (like Alabama's automotive industry) give firms the upper
hand? - ✔✔because they can pool a labor force, use specialized local suppliers, and
share technological information
✔✔Aesthetics refers to - ✔✔a culture's sense of beauty and good taste
✔✔Aesthetics - ✔✔-Expressed through art, drama, music, folklore, dance, etc
-Also applies to ideas about body and physical beauty
- Folklore conveys powerful connotations and emotions: must be used carefully in
marketing
(ex. Fang-like teeth in Japan)
, ✔✔Religion - ✔✔important component of culture; responsible for many attitudes and
beliefs.
✔✔How can religion impact a government? - ✔✔Religion can impact how a government
is run - theocracies - examples include Vatican City Yemen Saudi Arabia Sudan Iran
Mauritania Afghanistan
✔✔Religion impacts how people... - ✔✔think and influences their actions
✔✔Family planning - Catholicism and abortion is an example of how... - ✔✔religion
impacts government policies
✔✔How many languages in the world are there? - ✔✔7,000 languages in the world
✔✔What percent of languages in the world are in danger of extinction? - ✔✔40% are in
danger of extinction, many with less than 1,000 people speaking the language
✔✔How many languages account for more than ½ the world's population - ✔✔23
languages
✔✔What does Hall's high and low context do? - ✔✔Classifies cultures based on
communication styles and role of context
✔✔In high context cultures, much of communication is conveyed by __________ -
✔✔context
✔✔high-context culture - ✔✔-Japan, China, many other Asian, Latin American, and
African cultures.
-Social ties are long-standing and close; communication tends to be implicit and
indirect.
-Tends to be polychronic
✔✔In low context cultures, most communication carried in ________________ -
✔✔words
✔✔low-context culture - ✔✔-U.S., Canada, other Anglo cultures, Germany, and
Scandinavian cultures.
-Social ties are of shorter duration; communication is explicit.
-Tends to be monochronic
✔✔High Context - ✔✔- Less verbally explicit communication; less written/formal
information
- More internalized understandings of what is communicated
- Multiple cross-cutting ties and intersections with others
