Of the Following, Which Is Not One of the Three

question 9

Multiple Choice

Of the following, which is not one of the three central principles recommended in this chapter for a firm organizing itself for international business?

• A) Organize value-adding activities along lines of comparative advantage.
• B) Establish a single office responsible for international systems and a global CIO position.
• C) Disperse production and marketing to regional centers and establish a single center for world headquarters and strategic management.
• D) Develop and operate systems units at each level of corporate activity-regional, national, and international.

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Definitions:

Nonanalytic Concept Formation

Cognitive processes that implicitly acquire knowledge of a complex structure during the memorization of examples.

Reber

Refers to psychologist Arthur Reber, known for his work on implicit learning and the cognitive unconscious, particularly how people can learn complex information without being aware of the learning process.

Semantic Priming

A phenomenon in which exposure to one word (e.g., nurse) facilitates the recognition of semantically related words (e.g., doctor).

Concept Usage

The ways in which ideas or abstractions are employed in different contexts to convey meanings or understand phenomena.