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I started baking gluten-free breads out of my home. After initial success, I opened a retail bakery focusing on gluten-free baked goods. I quit my current job at JSU to run the bakery and hired two people to help me run the bakery, including baking a variety of items. My bakery is best described a what type of structure?

Firms that utilize cross-border strategic alliances to enter new foreign markets can encounter which of the following drawbacks?

ABC, Inc wants to ‘take the firm global.’ Which of the following should they consider while choosing the appropriate strategy?

alliance management, as a process, starts with which of the following?

Determining how work efforts are orchestrated and how resources are allocated is known as:

ABC, Inc. has a national competitive advantage in the automobile industry. This means that the countryABC, Inc. resides in:

The attitudes and behaviors that are proper for employees are understood as:

A large cell phone manufacturer company, ABC, Inc. made an early small investment in a start-up company, XYZ that was developing a new type of cell phone app. This gave ABC, Inc. controlling interests in XYZ. However, ABC, Inc. had no commitments to make sustained investments in the experiments of XYZ. ABC, Inc. could invest small amounts depending on the new app’s success at each stage of its development. If the app proved to be successful, ABC, Inc. would have the right to buy out XYZ. This method to strategic alliance is known as

ABC, Inc. sells their automobiles in many countries around the world. ABC clearly understands that the performance and safety preferences of customers varies from one country to another. Thus, its vehicles are changed to meet local needs and preferences of customers, even though the costs incurred for making these automobiles are extremely high. This strategy helps the firm compete as a local firm in any foreign market. Which of the following strategies does ABC most likely follow?

ABC, Inc. is a large snack-food conglomerate that operates in more than 40 countries and more than 90,000 employees across the globe. It operates through numerous regional product categories, which manage to function as independent profit-and-loss facilities. This allows for substantial economies of scale. Though each division acts as an independent company with its distinct regional directors, repeated sharing of information between the divisions allows for worldwide learning. These factors help the company resolve product and service differentiations at low cost. Which of the following strategies does ABC, Inc. most likely pursue?