WGU C211 Exam Questions with Verified Answers (Correct Update)
Question 1: Main views on globalization
Answer: New, evolutionary, and pendulum
Question 2: New View on Globalization
Answer: A force sweeping through the world in recent times.
Question 3: Evolutionary View on Globalization
Answer: A long-run historical evolution since the dawn of human history
Question 4: Pendulum View on Globalization
Answer: One that swings from one extreme to another from time to time. Rapid globalization, but
has to stop due to lash back.
Question 5: What is FDI
Answer: foreign direct investment
Question 6: Foreign Direct Investment
Answer: the control and management of activities in a foreign country.
Question 7: Green Field Investment
Answer: Brand new business in the host country, requires largest equity investment. Purchase of
land, factory, etc.
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, Question 8: Wholly Owned Subsidiary
Answer: Company simply purchases an entire company that is already doing business in the host
country.
Question 9: Partnership
Answer: When a company partners with company that already exists in the host country, some
proportion of ownership/collaboration but not the entire company.
Question 10: Licensing
Answer: non-equity method of investment. Simply license brand name, logo, manufacturing
process, etc. To entrepreneur in host country; Low risk.
Question 11: Political views on FDI
Answer: Radical View, Free Market View, Pragmatic Nationalism
Question 12: Radical view on FDI
Answer: a political view which argues that globalization is the product of western civilization and
specifically the MNE's which derive from there. This view argues globalization should be avoided
as its ecological and social costs are too high. Argue for protectionism.
Question 13: Free market view on FDI
Answer: A political view that suggests that FDI unrestricted by government intervention is the
best. Discourages tariffs and is pro-globalization.
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Question 1: Main views on globalization
Answer: New, evolutionary, and pendulum
Question 2: New View on Globalization
Answer: A force sweeping through the world in recent times.
Question 3: Evolutionary View on Globalization
Answer: A long-run historical evolution since the dawn of human history
Question 4: Pendulum View on Globalization
Answer: One that swings from one extreme to another from time to time. Rapid globalization, but
has to stop due to lash back.
Question 5: What is FDI
Answer: foreign direct investment
Question 6: Foreign Direct Investment
Answer: the control and management of activities in a foreign country.
Question 7: Green Field Investment
Answer: Brand new business in the host country, requires largest equity investment. Purchase of
land, factory, etc.
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, Question 8: Wholly Owned Subsidiary
Answer: Company simply purchases an entire company that is already doing business in the host
country.
Question 9: Partnership
Answer: When a company partners with company that already exists in the host country, some
proportion of ownership/collaboration but not the entire company.
Question 10: Licensing
Answer: non-equity method of investment. Simply license brand name, logo, manufacturing
process, etc. To entrepreneur in host country; Low risk.
Question 11: Political views on FDI
Answer: Radical View, Free Market View, Pragmatic Nationalism
Question 12: Radical view on FDI
Answer: a political view which argues that globalization is the product of western civilization and
specifically the MNE's which derive from there. This view argues globalization should be avoided
as its ecological and social costs are too high. Argue for protectionism.
Question 13: Free market view on FDI
Answer: A political view that suggests that FDI unrestricted by government intervention is the
best. Discourages tariffs and is pro-globalization.
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