Cultural Environments Differ Across the World

question 18

Multiple Choice

Cultural environments differ across the world. What does this imply for business firms?

• A) Canadian corporations have an advantage over firms from other nations.
• B) The culture must adapt to the goods and services offered by transnational corporations.
• C) Their management styles must remain consistent.
• D) Strategies, structures, and management styles that work in one area of the world may be inappropriate in another.

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Definitions:

Asymmetric Carbon

An asymmetric carbon, also known as a chiral carbon, is a carbon atom that is attached to four different groups, making its mirror image not superimposable on itself.

R or S

A system for specifying the configuration of chiral centers in molecules, based on the CIP (Cahn-Ingold-Prelog) priority rules.

Asymmetric Carbon

A carbon atom bonded to four different atoms or groups, making it a center of chirality and pivotal in the study of stereochemistry.

R or S

Designations used in stereochemistry to describe the absolute configuration of chiral molecules relative to their spatial arrangement.