Which of the Following Reasons Has Made Outsourcing of Service

question 111

Multiple Choice

Which of the following reasons has made outsourcing of service activities to low-cost producers in other nations possible?

• A) Increasing diversity in material culture among national markets
• B) Government regulations limiting certain service activities in the home country
• C) Increasing foreign competition in manufacturing industries
• D) Rise in communism globally
• E) Use of modern communications technology

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Definitions:

Sign Test

A non-parametric test used to evaluate the difference between paired samples, based on the direction of the differences between the pairs, not their magnitude.

T Test

A statistical test used to compare the means of two groups or the mean of one group with a known value, under the assumption of normally distributed data.

T Procedure

A statistical method used to test the mean of a population, especially useful when dealing with small sample sizes and unknown population standard deviations.

Outliers

Data points that significantly deviate from the other observations in a dataset, potentially indicating measurement error or an unusual event.