Describe the current global strategy and provide evidence about how the firm’s resources and competencies support the pressures regarding costs and local responsiveness. Describe entry modes they have usually used, and whether the modes are appropriate for the given strategy is described below
Explanation:
Global Strategy’ is a shortened term that covers three areas: global, multinational and international strategies. Essentially, these three areas refer to those strategies designed to enable an organisation to achieve its objective of international expansion.
In developing ‘global strategy’, it is useful to distinguish between three forms of international expansion that arise from a company’s resources, capabilities and current international position.
Implications of the three definitions within global strategy:
International strategy: the organisation’s objectives relate primarily to the home market.
Multinational strategy: the organisation is involved in a number of markets beyond its home country. But it needs distinctive strategies for each of these markets because customer demand and, perhaps competition, are different in each country. Importantly, competitive advantage is determined separately for each country.
Global strategy: the organisation treats the world as largely one market and one source of supply with little local variation. Importantly, competitive advantage is developed largely on a global basis.
Answer: D. marginal product; increasing; average variable cost; decreasing
Explanation:
The Marginal product curve is hump-shaped and the marginal cost curve is U-shaped because these two move in opposite directions to each other.
If the marginal cost is decreasing therefore, the marginal product must be increasing. If the marginal cost is decreasing and the marginal product is increasing, average variable cost will have to fall because every additional unit produced incurs less cost so the average has to fall as well.
Answer: Federal reserve system is basically an independent agency.
Explanation: The Federal reserve system is the bank that functions as the central bank of the USA. It is an organization that oversees most of the economic activities of the nation, supervises the banks in the country, and help to reduce effects of financial crisis.
The federal reserve system is mainly an independent body, with it's own president and other leadership positions but it is answerable to the Congress of the USA.
The definition above is that of MOTELS. Motels are hotels which are typically designed for motorists and which usually have parking lots for vehicles. They are designed in such a way that the rooms open directly to the parking area. Motels became popular around 1920s when highway system allowed people to engage in long distance travelling by roads.
Answer:
The best depiction of the information level given to a department manager versus that reported to a company vice-president is:
Department Manager Company Vice-President
B. Somewhat detailed Somewhat summarized
Explanation:
At the operational level of the organization, the information requirement is for detailed data to help the department manager act on operational decisions. At the tactical level where the vice-president operates, the information requirement is for data that is somewhat summarized but not too detailed. The highest level of the organizational hierarchy is the strategic level, where information requirement concentrates on detailed reports and not detailed data but highly summarized data.
