140) Although ________ has become a kind of standard business language, this is truer at higher levels of companies and not throughout the middle and lower ranks.
141) Three organizational issues face corporations seeking a global position: choosing a ________, organizing the business, and organizing the information systems management area.
142) The ________
strategy is characterized by heavy centralization of corporate activities in the home country of origin.
143) The ________
strategy concentrates financial management and control out of a central home base while decentralizing production, sales, and marketing operations to units in other countries.
144) ________ are structured such that the product is created, designed, financed, and initially produced in the home country, but for product-specific reasons, must rely heavily on foreign personnel for further production, marketing, and human resources.
145) ________ firms take the globe, not the home country, as their management frame of reference.
146) Few ________ have actually attained transnational status, but Nestlé, Citicorp, Sony, Ford, and others are attempting this transition.
147) ________
are those in which systems development and operation occur totally at the domestic home base.
148) ________
are those in which development occurs at the home base but operations are handed over to autonomous units in foreign locations.
149) ________
are those in which each foreign unit designs its own unique solutions and systems.