When FDI Takes the Form of an Acquisition of an Established

question 24

Multiple Choice

When FDI takes the form of an acquisition of an established enterprise in the host economy as opposed to a greenfield investment,the immediate effect may be to _____ as the multinational tries to restructure the operations of the acquired unit to improve its operating efficiency.

• A)aggressively recruit local personnel
• B)install local personnel in key management positions
• C)apply for public funding through an initial public offering
• D)reduce employment

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Definitions:

Equal Sample Sizes

A situation in statistical analysis where all groups or categories being compared have the same number of observations or data points.

Mean Response Time

The average time taken to react or respond to a stimulus or task.

Significance Level

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines whether an observed effect is statistically significant. It is often denoted by alpha (α).

Population Variances

A statistical measure of the dispersion of data points in a population, indicating how much the values differ from the mean.