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1)Innovations can be stimulated by all of the following - revolutionary technological breakthroughs, emerging consumer trends, new competitive challenges and pending government regulations

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1)Innovations can be stimulated by all of the following - revolutionary technological breakthroughs, emerging consumer trends, new competitive challenges and pending government regulations.

 

 

 

2. When products of high strategic importance are transferred internally between an MNE’s business units, global business managers will prefer to facilitate these transfers via internal quasi-markets, rather than exerting direct control over quantities shipped and prices charged.

 

 

3. To respond to the heightened complexity and diversity associated with managing global operations in the 21st century, MNEs can be expected to increasingly adopt organizational forms characterized by hierarchical structures which emphasize either-or choices in place of forms that emphasize flexible coordinative processes and integrated networks of assets and resources.

 

 

4. The top-level management team should balance all of the following processes in order to fully exploit the MNE’s assets and resources and greatly leverage its performance, except

 

 

5. Worldwide functional managers are principally responsible for diffusing products and services worldwide between the MNE’s geographic units.

 

 

6. Two key tasks associated with the geographic (country) manager’s role as a national defender and advocate are both the responsibility for advocating the subsidiary’s role in the MNE’s worldwide organization and the responsibility for championing transnational innovations.

 

 

7. The global business manager alone is responsible for formulating the strategic priorities of the MNE.

 

 

8. All of the following forces are contributing to the complexity and diversity encountered by MNEs in the 21st century, except:

 

 

9. Top-level management teams strive to pursue continual renewal within the transnational by engaging in all of the following activities, except

 

 

10. Worldwide functional managers would not occupy the following executive role in the MNE

 

 

11. In the transnational, worldwide functional managers are often linked most effectively through informal networks that are nurtured and maintained through frequent meetings, visits and transfers.

 

 

12. The role of the geographic (country) subsidiary manager has become more difficult in an era of global business units and global customers due to the fact that the manager is accountable for results, but exercises limited authority over the employees and assets situated within the country.

 

 

13. Which of the following is not considered a key management category in the modern transnational company

 

14. In their role as worldwide intelligence scanners, worldwide functional managers lead efforts to diffuse innovations throughout the MNE by engaging in all of the following activities, except

 

 

15. In executing responsibilities for cross-border coordination, the global business manager will not typically

 

 

16. Which of the following expressions is used to describe one class of transnational innovation developed by worldwide functional managers

 

 

17. In the transnational organization of today, top management must control global business management, worldwide functional management and geographic (country) subsidiary management, so that three groups would not attempt to provide divergent influence on the corporate strategies.

 

 

18. While the global business manager must routinely incorporate the perspectives of the geographic (country) managers when formulating the MNE’s global business strategy, there is no need to incorporate the perspectives of the worldwide functional managers because these perspectives are incorporated into the formulation of the broader corporate strategy.

 

 

19. In general, the global business manager, the geographic (country) subsidiary manager and the worldwide functional manager respectively cope with challenges of developing global efficiency and competitiveness, national responsiveness and flexibility, and worldwide innovation and learning capabilities. Nevertheless, it does not mean that they undertake their tasks unilaterally.