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Why is international marketing important? - -Creates opportunities for: 1. COUNTRIES - economic advantage - growth of consumption, higher spending on economy, expansion of economy - economic multiplier - creates jobs, builds on existing capabilities. 2. FIRMS - opportunities for expansion, growth of profitability and revenues - larger market access, economies of scale - take advantage of differing wants and needs with increased economies of scope 3. PEOPLE - creates jobs, builds on exis...

The correct components of the 7-S framework are? - -Structure, skills, staff, style, systems, strategy, shared values -What does a service value chain consist of? - -Problem finding and acquisition, problem solving, choice, execution, control and evaluate. -What are Forces for "market responsiveness" ? - -Cultural differences, Regionalism / protectionism, "De globalization" -What is Enthocentric? - -The home country is superior and the needs of the home country are mos...

b - -Which of the following will cause an increase in net working capital, other things held constant? a. A cash dividend is declared and paid. b. Merchandise is sold at a profit, but the sale is on credit. c. Long-term bonds are retired with the proceeds of a preferred stock issue. d. Missing inventory is written off against retained earnings. e. Cash is used to buy marketable securities -e - -Firms generally choose to finance temporary current operating assets with short-term debt be...

Public international law - -the rules and obligations that govern the relationship between states and its individuals -Private international law - -the rules and obligations that govern the relationships between private individuals and corporations -Three types of relationships in public international law - -state and state, state and persons, persons and persons -Is international law really law - -no formal governing body or rule making mechanisms -Law - -rules regarded as something...

Attributes - -data elements associated with an entity -Record - -a collection of related data elements -Primary Key - -A field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given entity in a table -Foreign Key - -A primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables -entity - -stores information about a person, place, thing, transaction, or event -relation between entities and attributes in a re...

Overall model of the book - -• Design (Shaping processes, products and services) • Deliver (Planning and controlling ongoing operations) • Develop (Improving the operation's capabilities) • Direct (Steering operations and processes) -What is operations and process management? - -The activity of managing the resources and processes that produce products and services The economic sector of an operation is less important in determining how it should be managed than its intrinsic c...

Collective responsibility - -concept that whole state bears responsibility after WWII (1945 and on) -Aggravated responsibility - -occurs for the violation of the most important values of international law/ heightened responsibility and prosecuting crimes such as genocide, torture, terrorism, etc. -Individual responsibility - -idea that the person who physically committed the crime will be internationally responsible -Nullum crimen sine lege - -The principle that conduct does not constit...

Sources of international law - -treaties, customary law, general principles, [judicial decisions and teachings by the mot highly qualified scholars] -Henkin - -international law is identified where nations reflect it in their own policies and in their relations with other nations -Natural law - -5 principles: self-preservation, independence, respect, equality, intercourse -Positivism - -international law only exists where states consent to be bound -Lotus Case (France v. Turkey) - -H...

4 sources of international law - -1. Treaty 2. Customary international law 3. General principles of law 4. Subsidiary/tribunal -Sources of international law - -Art. 38 ICJ treaty -3 Theories of Compliance - -1. Transnational legal process theory 2. Liberal theory 3. Legitimacy theory - law mobilizes compliance to the extent it is legitimate -ICJ is a treaty that established the international court of justice - -1. international conventions - primary source of law (treaty) 2. I...

The court, whose function is to decide in accordance with IL such disputes as are submitted to it, shall apply: a. international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states: b. international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law; c. the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations; d... judicial decision and the treating of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsid...