Quiz

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1. Which one of the following, according to Chapter 15 of your textbook is NOT one of the four impacts of global production?

  1. Changes in global relations between states
  2. Threats to sustainability due to economic growth
  3. Diversity increases making management more complex
  4. Small, local businesses become more isolated

Answer: D

2. Which one of the following is characteristic of contemporary globalization?

  1. The internationalization of financial markets and corporate strategies
  2. The diffusion of technology, R & D, and knowledge worldwide
  3. The emergence of global media
  4. All of the above

Answer: D

3. What is the consequence for a company becoming global?

  1. The more likely a company is to lose its own identity within a tangle of other companies, alliances and markets
  2. The more likely a company is to ensure strong branding and culture to maintain its identity in foreign markets
  3. The more likely it is that company must form alliances
  4. All of the above

Answer: A

4. Which one of the following is a plausible example of national states’ still having control over globalization?

  1. Poor nations have effectively resisted globalization by constantly refusing to reduce tax, occupational health and safety, industrial relations, and environmental barriers and regulations expected by global firms
  2. Digitalization drives globalization, making digital data easily available anywhere in the world, but national laws limit its reproduction
  3. Nation states now actively avoid globalization by refusing to trade beyond their own national boundaries, thus rendering global firms useless
  4. All of the above

Answer: B

5. A fundamental tension exists between national governments and transnational companies, that tension being that ____________.

  1. Governance of the corporation, especially as a taxable entity, can frequently cut across governments of the territories within which it operates
  2. Many of the governments of the territories within which a corporation operates are corrupt, so the corporation operates under conditions of bribery and politics
  3. There is always the possibility that the corporate friendly conservative governments might be overthrown by anti globalization socialist parties
  4. Both a and c

Answer: A

6. What, according to your textbook, is the most competitive force in the global economy?

  1. Globalization
  2. Industrialization
  3. Innovation
  4. Poverty

Answer: C

7. What changes has globalization brought to labor markets?

  1. It creates a symbiotic demand for high value expert jobs as well as service work
  2. It has made wage costs, everywhere, more costly
  3. It has driven down wage costs across the globe
  4. It has led to the deskilling of labor as global firms search for the cheapest wage costs

Answer: A

8. Call center workers are a good example of __________.

  1. Grunge workers
  2. Creative workers
  3. Expert symbolic analysts
  4. White collar factory workers

Answer: D

9. Dicken (2007: 8), the foremost geographer of globalization, suggests that there is an interpenetration of four parallel processes creating globalization, which of the following is NOT one of those processes:

  1. Localizing processes
  2. Digitizing processes
  3. Globalization processes
  4. Regionalizing processes

Answer: B

10. What is meant by NSM (New Social Movements)?

  1. Research and theory that argues for the importance of identity politics in the global era
  2. Organizations that often use the tools of globalization, to resist globalization, such as S11
  3. New cultures and political movements that have emerged in response to globalization
  4. All the above

Answer: D

11. According to your textbook, what is a paradoxical consequence of increasing globalization?

  1. That, as the world globalizes more and more, people are traveling less and less
  2. That those who resist globalization the most are those that benefit from it the most
  3. That there is a concentration of clusters of world-class expertise in specialist industries in different local economies around the world
  4. That globalization makes companies richer and employees poorer as globalizing companies force down wages and push up prices

Answer: C