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Questions

1. With respect to the environment in which a business involved in an international project in another country finds itself, such factors as competitive forces, political/legal forces, level of technology, and cultural forces would all be examples of what are called:

a. foreign uncontrollable elements

b. controllable elements

c. uncontrollable elements "

d. predictable elements

e. cultural elements

2. A belief that most international business activities and as a result international projects in the future will be more regional rather than global can be traced partly to Pankaj Ghemawat's assertion that _____.

a. transportation of most goods is impractical over great distances.

b. globalization is just another name for regionalism.

c. nation states/countries within a region share more similar political beliefs.

d. most people in adjacent nation states/countries understand each other's languages. "

e. as distance increases, activities decrease.

3. When it comes to the tasks of the International/Global Project Manager, company characteristics are considered ________.

a. both domestic and foreign controllable/uncontrollable at the same time.

b. foreign controllable.

c. domestic uncontrollable. "

d. foreign uncontrollable.

e. controllable.

4. International/Global Project Managers from _________ cultures may identify risks factors on their own and be the only one responsible for taking countermeasures. Group members may be very comfortable not having any responsibility for this analysis.

a. high risk avoidance

b. hierarchy-oriented

c. circumstantial (i.e. particularistic)

d. group-oriented

e. achievement based "

5. Which activity is not likely to be valued in a group-oriented collectivistic culture?

a. Shared responsibility

b. Team based rewards

c. Maintaining harmony "

d. Collective goals

e. Temporary project structures

6. According to Altman, attention to (and management of) the following catalysts of globalization's future can help companies survive and thrive/profit from globalization's COVID19 turbulence except:

a. public opinion

b. supply chain policies

c. technological changes "

d. ODA

e. growth patterns.