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IA Knowledge VIII Flashcards

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Special government auditing standards published by the US Comptroller General.

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Yellow Book

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A group of five international organizations responsible for providing financing and advice to countries for economic development and elimination of poverty.

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World Bank

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An organization established by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that administers trade agreements, provides a forum for negotiations, and handles disputes between trading partners.

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World Trade Organization (WTO)

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A situation in which firms voluntarily limit the amount of their exports to specific countries, generally to avoid more stringent trade barriers or the imposition of import quotas.

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Voluntary export restrictions (VERs)

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Situation in which an organization owns all of a foreign operation.

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Wholly owned subsidiary

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A circumstance where an organization owns and controls several different subsidiaries to promote cost and efficiency benefits.

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Vertical integration

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Teams that are dispersed geographically and primarily communicate via electronic methods.

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Virtual teams

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A period during which economic output is at its lowest level following a recession or depression.

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Trough

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Measured by dividing the number of people actively seeking employment by the total workforce.

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Unemployment

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A strategy in which an organization’s home and host countries are closely connected to operate on a worldwide basis.

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Transnational strategy

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A pricing agreement between two parties that allows a buyer or seller to trigger a particular pricing formula at the time of their choosing; a type of futures trading that allows the buyer and seller to protect themselves from anticipated price fluctuations.

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Trigger pricing

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The use or threat of violence for political reasons.

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Terrorism

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Corporations that span borders in their organizational structures; they play a significant role in world trade.

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Transnational corporations (TNCs)

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A smaller group of individuals that has been organized to accomplish a common purpose and performance objectives.

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Team

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The way organizations are able to capitalize on the use of technology and expand research and development and other capabilities through global telecommunication networks.

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Technoglobalism

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Policies that address factors that will, over time, increase the potential of full-capacity output of the economy.

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Supply-side policies

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Excise taxes imposed on the imports of particular goods or services.

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Tariffs

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Agreements between organizations from different countries to conduct business.

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Strategic alliances

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A type of unemployment that exists when there is enough demand to provide full employment but the types of demand don’t match the available labor force.

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Structural unemployment

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A process of developing several future alternatives, or scenarios, to help prepare for future uncertainties.

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Scenario building

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An assumption or generalization made about someone that is not reflective of the person.

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Sterotype

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A strategy that combines aspects of the multinational, international, and multilocal strategies; focus is on producing regional products with a regional value chain.

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Regional stratey

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Regulations regarding the minimum amount of resources that banks must hold against deposits.

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Reserve requirements

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A period characterized by an expansion in the economy during which employment and economic output increase.

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Recovery

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In terms of international operations, an orientation in which there is high coordination and communication within a specific region.

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Regiocentric orientation

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Government control of the quantity supplied of a specific item; used to ensure fair distribution of scarce resources.

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Rationing

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A period of at least six months after a peak and before a trough during which the economy declines as measured by gross domestic product.

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Recession

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The existence of barriers to free trade.

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Protectionism

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Study of perceptions of space and personal contact.

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Proxemics

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A legal minimum on the price of a good or service.

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Price floor

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The sale of a government-owned operation to a private investor.

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Privatization

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The cost of a product or service to the customer.

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Price

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A legal maximum on the price of a good or service.

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Price ceiling

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Any government or political action that would harm a country’s business environment.

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Political risk

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In terms of international operations, an orientation that gives much latitude to the host country to make decisions locally and direct operations.

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Polycentric orientation

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The potential benefits given up when one alternative is selected over another.

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Opportunity costs

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The point at which economic activity reaches a temporary maximum.

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Peak

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When the US Federal Reserve System buys or sells government securities (bonds, notes, and bills) in the open market from the public.

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Open market operations

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As related to risk, an uncertain event with a positive consequence.

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Opportunity

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A trade agreement that lowered trade barriers among the US, Mexico, and Canada.

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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

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41
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Quantities of foreign currencies held by the central bank of every nation.

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Official reserves

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A strategy in which the organizations in host countries are subsidiaries with their own control of operations.

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Multilocal strategy

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An organization that serves customers in various countries.

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Multinational organization

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A person who implements an organization’s strategy and provides the necessary structure for people and operations on a day-to-day basis.

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Manager

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A strategy in which the organizations in host countries are subsidiaries with their own control of operations.

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Multidomestic strategy

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The science of economic concerns on a national level.

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Macroeconomics

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A system in which the currency rate normally fluctuates according to supply and demand but is also supported by currency interventions by central banks in order to stabilize or alter rates.

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Managed floating exchange rate system

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An agreement between an organization and another party to, for example, use a technology or a patent.

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Licensing

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When individuals say things very directly and explicitly; the meaning is in the words they use and the specific situation is not as important to discern.

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Low-context language

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Agreements between two separate organizations to accomplish a single project together.

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Joint ventures

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An innovative thinking process to challenge the status quo and generate unconventional alternatives.

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Lateral thinking

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An international agency charged with promoting economic stability and preventing global depression by providing loans to usually stable countries during times of crisis.

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International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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A strategy in which an organization’s home country controls the value chain at home but still produces and markets global products.

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International strategy

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A set of standards required or permitted for use by over 115 countries (including supranational bodies such as the European Commission), created to provide harmony among the regulations and accounting standards related to financial reporting across national boundaries.

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International financial reporting standards (IFRS)

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Situation in which the organizations in a strategic alliance form a separate entity.

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International joint venture (IJV)

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A process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the achievement of objectives in the categories of effectiveness and efficiency of operations, reliability of financial reporting, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

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Internal control

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Being able to conduct transactions within a firm; facilitates transfer of technology from one branch of the company to another without selling the technology.

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Internalization

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The decrease in the purchasing power of money and the increase in the general price level for goods and services.

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Inflation

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The agreed-upon payment for use of resources.

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Interest

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The maximum amount of a good that may be imported to a country in a given time period.

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Import quotas

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When an organization buys products, supplies, or services from a foreign country.

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Importing

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The country where an organization’s headquarters are.

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Home country

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A foreign country that an organization conducts business in.

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Host country

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A situation in which members of a group make decisions without considering a range of alternatives and perspectives.

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Groupthink

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When individuals say things indirectly and implicitly; reading between the lines is important because the words could have different meanings and some things may be left unsaid.

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High-context language

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A strategy in which an organization can produce products or services anywhere from a global location.

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Global strategy

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The total market value of all goods and services produced in the economy in one year.

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Gross domestic product (GDP)

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The broad guidelines and specific procedures for accounting that have substantial authoritative support in the business community.

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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

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In terms of international operations, an orientation in which there is strong interdependence between the home and host countries; the approach is to develop worldwide standards and objectives that serve both universal and local purposes.

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Geocentric orientation

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Increases in net assets (equity) due to incidental or peripheral transactions except those resulting from investments by or distributions to owners.

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Gains

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An agreement that sets forth binding tariffs between member countries; generally means that the countries cannot raise their tariffs from the agreed-upon levels.

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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

72
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The absence of artificial barriers to trade among different nations.

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Free trade

73
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The amount of unemployment due to the normal workings of the labor market.

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Frictional unemployment

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A type of license whereby use of an entire business is licensed.

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Franchising

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Falsified reporting designed to mislead financial statement users, usually by understating or overstating assets/liabilities or revenues/expenses.

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Fraudulent financial reporting

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A planning tool to identify forces for and against change to help make better decisions.

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Force field analysis

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A situation in which an international organization owns part or all of an operation in another country.

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Foreign direct investment (FDI)

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A system in which the exchange rates for currencies are determined by market supply and demand as are the prices of other financial assets such as stocks and bonds.

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Floating exchange rate

79
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Sets a minimum value for an adjustable interest rate.

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Floor

80
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The central banking system of the US; uses monetary policy to help the economy achieve full-employment GDP.

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Federal Reserve System (the Fed)

81
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A system in which the exchange rates for currencies are determined by market supply and demand as are the prices of other financial assets such as stocks and bonds.

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Flexible exchange rate

82
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When an organization sells its products or services to foreign customers, either directly or indirectly through an intermediary.

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Exporting

83
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The situation in which a country takes over an organization’s assets without adequate compensation.

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Expropriation

84
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A specific cash amount levied on a particular commodity, such as liquor.

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Excise tax

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Payments a government makes to a business that exports goods; the firm will export the good up to the point at which the domestic price exceeds the foreign price by the amount of the subsidy.

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Export subsidies

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The banking system that is made up of the European Central Bank and the local central banks of the 27 member states of the European Union.

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European System of Central Banks (ESCB)

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A customs and economic union of 27 (as of January 2012) independent, democratic European countries (called member states) supporting free trade and fixed exchange rates.

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European Union (EU)

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The executive body of the European Union.

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European Commission (EC)

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The European Union’s financing institution; provides financing for capital investment furthering European Union policy objectives.

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European Investment Bank (EIB)

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In terms of international operations, an orientation in which the home country headquarters largely controls home country and host country operations.

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Ethnocentric orientation

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The bank that is responsible for monetary policy covering the 13 member countries of the European Union that have adopted the euro as their currency.

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European Central Bank (ECB)

92
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An increase in real gross domestic product over a period of time.

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Economic growth

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Any economic statistic, such as the unemployment rate, GDP, or the inflation rate, that indicates how well the economy is doing and how well it will do in the future.

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Economic indicatior

94
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The situation in which a host county acquires more ownership of a foreign business.

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Domestication

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Situation in which an exporter sells a product for less in a foreign country than the product sells for in the domestic market; designed to drive competitors out of an industry and then allow the exporter to raise its prices to make a profit.

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Dumping

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The interest rate on loans that the Federal Reserve makes to commercial banks.

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Discount rate

97
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Accepting and respecting individual differences and being inclusive of such things as different backgrounds, values, beliefs, experiences, and skills.

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Diversity

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An increase in aggregate demand that pulls up the price level.

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Demand-pull inflation

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Attempt to eliminate or reduce the severity of recessions, or maintain growth at a noninflationary pace, through active fiscal and monetary policy.

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Demand-side policies

100
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The ability to understand and communicate effectively across cultures.

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Cultural intelligence

101
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A type of unemployment caused by ups and downs in the business cycle, specifically by a lack of demand for labor.

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Cyclical unemployment

102
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An increase in production costs that reduces supply and increases prices.

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Cost-push inflation

103
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An in-kind trade made between parties, typically through a trading organization.

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Countertrade

104
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A measure of the collective changes in the cost of living for the average consumer household.

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Consumer price index (CPI)

105
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A licensing agreement whereby an organization manufactures for a foreign market.

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Contract manufacturing

106
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Situation in which a party’s opportunity cost for producing a good or service, in comparison to that of other goods and services it can apply its resources toward, is lower than the opportunity cost for other parties.

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Comparative advantage

107
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Situation in which a country takes over the assets of an organization.

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Confiscation

108
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The continuous process of planning and directing changes that occur within an organization to achieve an intended result.

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Change management

109
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A two-way transfer of information between a sender and a receiver; can be verbal, written, or nonverbal.

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Communication

110
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A regular pattern of expansion (recovery) and contraction (recession) in the level of economic activity.

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Business cycle

111
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The accumulated resources of an organization raised through debt and equity financing and through the organization’s productive efforts.

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Capital

112
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The way we interpret verbal or nonverbal messages by our own references.

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Attribution

113
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An activity in which a group generates new ideas; ideas are accepted without criticism and are then evaluated together.

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Brainstorming

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