click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
PBM - Chapter 3
Vocabulary / key term - By Ian McGonigal
Question | Answer |
---|---|
International management | The management of business operations conducted in more than one country. |
Infrastructure | A country's physical facilities that support economic activities |
Political risk | A company's risk of loss of assets, earning power, or managerial control due to politically based events or actions by host governments. |
Power distance | The degree to which people accept inequality in power among institutions, organizations, and people. |
Uncertainty avoidance | A value characterized by people's intolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity and resulting support for beliefs that promise certainty and conformity. |
Individualism | A preference for a loosly knit social framework in which individuals are expected to take care of themselves. |
Collectivism | A preference for a tightly knit social framework in which individuals look after one another and organizations protect their members' interests. |
Masculinity | A cultural preference for achievement, heroism, assertiveness, work centrality, and material sucess. |
Feminity | A cultural preference for relationships, cooperation, group decision making, and quality of life. |
long-term orientation | A greater concern for the future and high value on thrift and perserverance. |
Short-term orientation | A concern with the past and present and a high value on meeting social obligations. |
Ethnocentrism | A cultural attitude marked by the tendency to regard one's own culture as superior to others. |
Most favored nation clause | A term describing a GATT clause that calls for member countries to grant other member countries the most favorable treatment they accord any country concerning imports and exports. |
Euro | A single European currency that replaced the currencies of 12 European nations. |
Market entry stratagies | An organizational strategy for entering a foriegn market. |
Global outsourcing | Engaging in international division of labor so as to obtain the cheapest sources of labor and supplies regardless of country; also called global sourcing. |
Culture shock | Feelings of confusion, disorientation, and axiety that result from being immerded in a foriegn culture. |
Four statges of globalization | Domestic, international, multinational, global. |
Key factors in the international enviromant | Economic, lega-political, sociocultural |