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introduction global business

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LO8-5 Explain the range of policy instruments that governments use to influence FDI.
LO8-4 Describe the benefits and costs of FDI to home and host countries.
LO8-3 Understand how political ideology shapes a government’s attitudes toward FDI.
LO8-2 Explain the different theories of FDI.
LO8-1 Recognize current trends regarding foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world economy.
3. What was the motivation of the Trump administration in placing tariffs on imports of foreign steel in 2017?Who benefits from these tariffs? Who loses? In your estimations, are the tariffs and net
2. Who pays the tariffs on imports on foreign steel into the United States? How does the payee deal with the additional costs that the tariffs represent?
1. The steel industry has a long history of asking for, and getting, tariff protection from foreign competitors.Why do you think this is the case?
LO7-5 Explain the implications for managers of developments in the world trading system.
LO7-3 Summarize and explain the arguments against strategic trade policy.
LO7-1 Identify the policy instruments used by governments to influence international trade flows.
4. Drawing on the case history of Ghana and South Korea, what advice on trade policy would you give a developing nation? What resistance to your recommendations would you expect?
3. What does the relative experience of Ghana and South Korea teach you about the importance of international trade policies?
2. What was South Korea trying to achieve with the trade policies that it implemented from the late 1950s onward? Did these policies work? Why?
1. What was Ghana trying to achieve with its post-independence policies toward international trade? Why did these policies not have the intended effect?
2. Food is an integral part of understanding different countries, cultures, and lifestyles. You run a chain of high-end premium restaurants in the United States, and you are looking for unique
1. The World Trade Organization International Trade Statistics is an annual report that provides comprehensive, comparable, and updated statistics on trade in merchandise and commercial services.The
6. Is there a difference between the transference of high-paying white-collar jobs, such as computer programming and accounting, to developing nations, and low-paying blue-collar jobs? If so, what is
5. Reread the Country Focus, “Is China Manipulating Its Currency in Pursuit of a Neo-Mercantilist Policy?”a. Do you think China is pursuing a currency policy that can be characterized as
4. What are the potential costs of adopting a free trade regime? Do you think governments should do anything to reduce these costs? Why?
2. Is free trade fair? Discuss.
LO6-5 Understand the important implications that international trade theory holds for management practice
LO6-4 Explain the arguments of those who maintain that government can play a proactive role in promoting national competitive advantage in certain industries.
LO6-3 Recognize why many economists believe that unrestricted free trade between nations will raise the economic welfare of countries that participate in a free trade system.
LO6-2 Summarize the different theories explaining trade flows between nations.
LO6-1 Understand why nations trade with each other.
5. Do you think that Microsoft should decline to do business with the likes of ExxonMobil unless they also adopt ambitious sustainability targets, as some critics have suggested?
4. Apply John Rawls’ concept of the veil of ignorance to Microsoft’s decision. What conclusion do you reach about Microsoft’s decision?
3. Viewed through the lens of “rights theories,” is Microsoft’s decision to go carbon negative by 2030 ethical?
2. What would the Friedman doctrine suggest about Microsoft’s decision to go carbon negative by 2030?
1. Is Microsoft’s decision to go carbon negative by 2030 in the best interests of Microsoft’s stockholders? What about other stakeholders such as the company’s customers, employees, suppliers,
2. The use of bribery in the business setting is an important ethical dilemma many companies face both domestically and abroad. The Bribe Payers Index is a study published every three years to assess
1. Promoting respect for universal human rights is a central dimension of many countries’ foreign policy.As history has shown, human rights abuses are an important concern worldwide. Some countries
7. Can a company be good at corporate social responsibility but not be sustainability oriented? Is it possible to focus on sustainability but not corporate social responsibility? Based on reading the
6. Milton Friedman stated in his famous article in The New York Times in 1970 that “the social responsibility of business is to increase profits.”56 Do you agree? If not, do you prefer that
5. A manager from a developing country is overseeing a multinational’s operations in a country where drug trafficking and lawlessness are rife. One day, a representative of a local “big man”
4. Do you think facilitating payments (speed payments)should be ethical? Does it matter in which country, or part of the world, such payments are made?
2. Drawing on John Rawls’s concept of the veil of ignorance, develop an ethical code that will (a) guide the decisions of a large oil multinational toward environmental protection and (b) influence
LO 5-5 Explain how global managers can incorporate ethical considerations into their decision making in general, as well as corporate social responsibility and sustainability initiatives.
LO 5-4 Describe the different philosophical approaches to business ethics that apply globally.
LO 5-3 Identify the causes of unethical behavior by managers as they relate to business, corporate social responsibility, or sustainability.
LO 5-2 Recognize an ethical, corporate social responsibility, and/or sustainability dilemma.
LO 5-1 Understand the ethical, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability issues faced by international businesses.
4. Since 2017, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the effective ruler of the country, has introduced a series of changes aiming at modernizing the country.These include relaxing many of the
3. If you were in a position to advise a Western company that was considering doing business in Saudi Arabia for the first time, what would your advice be?
2. What kinds of misunderstanding are likely to arise between an American company and a Saudi enterprise, neither of which has experience dealing with the other?
1. What forces shaped modern Saudi culture? How similar or different are these forces from those that shaped the culture of Western nations?
2. Typically, cultural factors drive the differences in business etiquette encountered during international business travel. In fact, Middle Eastern cultures exhibit significant differences in
1. You are preparing for a business trip to Brazil, where you will need to interact extensively with local professionals. As a result, you want to collect information about the local culture and
5. Reread the Management Focus, “China and Its Guanx i,” and answer the following questions:a. Why do you think it is so important to cultivate guanxi and guanxiwang in China?b. What does the
4. Reread the Country Focus, “Turkey, Its Religion, and Politics.” Then answer the following questions:a. Can you see anything in the values and norms of Islam that is hostile to business?
3. Choose two countries that appear to be culturally diverse (e.g., Sweden and Colombia). Compare the cultures of those countries, and then indicate how cultural differences influence (a) the costs
2. Do you think that business practices in an Islamic country are likely to differ from business practices in a Christian country? If so, how? If not, why?
1. Discuss why the culture of a country might influence the costs of doing business in that country. Illustrate your answer with country and company examples.
LO4-5 Demonstrate an appreciation for the economic and business implications of cultural change.
LO4-4 Recognize how differences in social culture influence values in business.
LO4-3 Identify the business and economic implications of differences in culture.
LO4-2 Identify the forces that lead to differences in social culture.
LO4-1 Explain what is meant by the culture of a society.
3. What economic headwinds might Poland face going forward? What additional policies should the government pursue to keep the economy on a stable footing and growing?
2. What are the lessons learned from the Polish experience that could be applied to other states trying to achieve greater economic growth?
1. Why has Poland’s economic growth been so strong in the country’s post-Communist era?
3. Reread the Country Focus, “India’s Economic Transformation,” and answer the following questions.a. What kind of economic system did India operate under during 1947–1990? What kind of
LO3-4 Explain the implications for management practice of national difference in political economy.
LO3-3 Describe how transition economies are moving toward market-based systems.
LO3-2 Identify the macropolitical and macroeconomic changes occurring worldwide.
LO3-1 Explain what determines the level of economic development of a nation.
4. What significant economic problems does Kenya face today? How might it overcome these problems? What advantages does the country have?
3. Kenya was a creation of Britain, a colonial power that once occupied the area. What problems were created when colonial powers drew national borders? Have these problems hampered the country’s
2. Why do you think that Kenya’s post-independence policy of African Socialism failed to deliver consistent economic growth?
1. What is “African Socialism” and how might it differ from “socialism” in general?
LO2-4 Explain the implications for management practice of national differences in political economy.
LO2-3 Understand how the legal systems of countries differ.
LO2-1 Understand how the political systems of countries differ.
5. How can a company like Apple, with a global supply chain, hedge against the risks of significant supply chain disruption due to the emergence of a new virus such as the SARS virus that appeared in
4. On balance, do you think that the kind of outsourcing undertaken by Apple is a good thing or a bad thing for the American economy? Explain your reasoning?
3. What are the potential ethical problems associated with outsourcing assembly jobs to Foxconn in China?How might Apple deal with these?
2. In addition to Apple, who else benefits from Apple’s decision to outsource assembly to China? Who are the potential losers here?
1. What are the benefits to Apple of outsourcing the assembly of the iPhone to foreign countries, and particularly China? What are the potential costs and risks to Apple?
2. You are working for a company that is considering investing in a foreign country. Investing in countries with different traditions is an important element of your company’s long-term strategic
7. Reread the Management Focus, “Boeing’s Global Pro duction System,” and answer the following questions:a. What are the benefits to Boeing of outsourcing manufacturing of components of the
1. Describe the shifts in the world economy over the past 30 years. What are the implications of these shifts for international businesses based in the United Kingdom? North America? Hong Kong?
LO1-5 Understand how the process of globalization is creating opportunities and challenges for management practice.
LO1-4 Explain the main arguments in the debate over the impact of globalization.
Describe the changing nature of the global economy.
● Prepare a statement of cash flows.
1. Outline the molecular mechanism of sex determination in Drosophila and mammals.
1. Genetic drift isa. a change in allele frequencies due to random fluctuations.b. likely to result in allele loss or fixation over the long run.c. more pronounced in smaller populations.d. all of
2. Which of the following influences on genetic drift involve(s) the migration of a population from one location to another?a. The bottleneck effectb. The founder effectc. Both a and bd. None of the
1. Gene flow depends ona. migration.b. the ability of migrant alleles to be passed to subsequent generations.c. genetic drift.d. both a and b.
1. Explain how migration affects allele frequencies between neighboring populations, and calculate the magnitude of such a change.
3. Explain how inbreeding affects the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
2. Calculate the inbreeding coefficient for an individual in a given pedigree.
1. Define assortative mating, inbreeding, and outbreeding.
1. Calculate the mean, variance, standard deviation, and correlation coefficient for a quantitative trait, and explain the meanings of these statistics.
2. Saying that a quantitative trait exhibits a continuum means thata. the numerical value for the trait increases with the age of the individual.b. environmental effects are additive.c. the
1. Which of the following is an example of a quantitative trait?a. Heightb. Rate of glucose metabolismc. Ability to learn a mazed. All of the above are quantitative traits.
4. Describe different mechanisms by which new species come into existence.
3. Define species concept, and give examples.
2. Outline the characteristics used to distinguish species.

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