Identify a factor that encourages the use of centralized decision making in subsidiary operations.
A. Moderate to low degree of technology
B. Small geographic distance between home office and subsidiary
C. Little experience in international business
D. Little importance attached to brand name and patent rights
Answer: B
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a. comprehensive; empathic b. empathic; critical c. discriminative; comprehensive d. discriminative; appreciative
Mergers of chapters within a federated organization are ______:
A. takeovers B. intermergers C. intramergers D. collaborations
Social anthropologists agree that all societies face the same basic problems. Where however do they differ?
a. the frequency of these problems *b. the way they answer these problems c. the magnitude of these problems d. the resources they apply to these problems