general business data bank

ESSAY

1. Describe the four stages of globalization with specific reference to strategic orientation, stage of development, cultural sensitivity, and manager assumptions.

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2. What is global outsourcing? Identify a unique variation of global outsourcing.

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3. Identify and briefly explain at least two key factors in economic, sociocultural and political-legal environments that affect an organization.

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4. Briefly explain the difference between high power distance and low power distance.

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5. Describe GATT and the World Trade Organization.

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6. Explain NAFTA.

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7. Briefly describe the social characteristic of ethnocentrism and explain how this can have an impact on the success of an international manager.

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