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1. A push strategy is a promotional strategy designed to pressure channel members to promote a product to final users.
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2. Antidumping tariffs punish producers in the offending nation by increasing the price of their products to a fairer level.
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3. Centralizing the decisions that directly impact workers' lives contribute to better labor–management relations.
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4. Companies make products rather than buy them in order to reduce total costs.
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5. Companies strive toward quality improvements for attaining economies of scale.
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6. Firms that standardize their advertising usually control campaigns from the home office.
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7. Just-in-time manufacturing drastically reduces the costs associated with large inventories in the production process.
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8. Noise refers to anything that disrupts the audience's ability to receive and interpret a promotional message.
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9. Outsourcing refers to the practice of buying from another company a good or a service that is part of a company's value-added activities.
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10. Polycentric staffing places managerial responsibility in the hands of people intimately familiar with the local business environment.
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11. Product differentiation is more likely when nations share the same level of economic development.
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12. Product life cycles are becoming shorter because companies are undertaking new product development at an increasingly rapid pace.
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13. Reverse culture shock is the trouble expatriates face while adjusting to a new environment in which they find themselves.
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14. Sensitivity training constitutes the most basic level of cultural training for managers on international assignments.
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15. The first phase of human resource planning is estimating the company's future HR needs.
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16. The more intermediaries there are in a distribution channel, the less costly the channel becomes.
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17. The physical path a product follows on its way to customers is called a promotional channel.
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18. The process of assessing a company's ability to produce enough output to satisfy market demand is called process planning.
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19. The process of reducing the size of an organization's workforce is called decruitment.
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20. The process of staffing a company and ensuring employees are as productive as possible is called human resource management.
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21. The psychological process of readapting to one's home culture is seldom difficult for expatriates who have successfully adapted to new cultures.
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22. Total quality management reduces the responsibility on each individual in the production process.
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23. Transportation costs are a driving force behind the globalization of the steel industry.
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24. Under the dual adaptation method, a company adapts its product to local requirements while retaining the product's original marketing communication.
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25. Venture capital is a source of equity financing for successful multinational companies.
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