Which of the following are also called articles of incorporation?
A.Stock options
B.Share certificates
C.Charters
D.Perquisites
What did the third wave of federal workplace regulation deal with?
A.Union rights
B.Polygraph and drug test rules
C.Pension rights
D.Civil rights
A _____ is the sequence of coordinated actions that add benefit to a product or service.
A.value chain
B.value stream
C.value grid
D.value network
Which of the following statements about the Seventeenth Amendment is true?
A.It instituted the direct election of senators by voters in each state.
B.It gave women the right to vote.
C.It gave companies the freedom to lobby.
D.It defined monetary campaign contributions as a form of speech.
Creation of externalities such as pollution and resource depletion come under which
force of globalization?
A.MNCs
B.Governments
C.Capital
D.NGOs
In considering whether or not to do a certain action that involves ethical reasoning, a
manager asks himself: “If I act in this way, do I want to read about my actions in “The
New York Times’ tomorrow morning?” In this scenario, he is applying:
A.the disclosure rule.
B.the universalizability test.
C.the ends-means ethic.
D.the reversibility test.
A Web site open to collaborative editing by multiple individuals is known as a:
A.tag.
B.wiki.
C.blog.
D.forum.
When a company transfers work of any kind to an outside supplier rather than pay its
own employees to do it, it is called:
A.nearshoring.
B.outsourcing.
C.co-sourcing.
D.homesourcing.
According to brain research, the effectiveness of the disclosure rule is shown to rest on
emotions such as:
A.fear.
B.greed.
C.remorse.
D.anger.
_____ is the idea, arising in the Enlightenment, that human beings are ends in
themselves.
A.Collectivism
B.Utilitarianism
C.Consumerism
D.Individualism
Corporations are not allowed to invoke the _____ Amendment right against
self-incrimination when prosecutors ask them to turn over documents related to a crime.
A.Fifth
B.Sixth
C.Fourteenth
D.Fifteenth
_____ discrimination is a pattern or practice of individual acts or rules in a corporate
culture that permits or condones discrimination.
A.Subtle
B.Reverse
C.Positive
D.Systemic
Governments cannot grant or take away _____ rights.
A.civil
B.legal
C.statutory
D.natural
The basic steps of the rulemaking process were set forth in the:
A.Congressional Review Act.
B.Sherman Antitrust Act.
C.Administrative Procedures Act.
D.Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.
Which of the following is a competitiveness goal?
A.Job security
B.Limited hours
C.Collective bargaining
D.Create jobs
Which of the following refers to a coalition of groups united by opposition to economic
globalization dominated by corporate capitalism?
A.Consumer rights movement
B.Populist movement
C.Global justice movement
D.Civil rights movement
When a company assesses its social impact on society, it has performed a(n):
A.triple bottom line report.
B.social audit.
C.probability matrix.
D.impact matrix.
The Environmental Protection Agency:
A.is a legislative branch regulatory agency.
B.was created in 1990 to consolidate environmental programs scattered throughout the
federal government.
C.writes detailed, specific rules needed to make environmental laws work.
D.cannot enforce rules directly on corporations.
Which of the following is a negative economic effect of FDI?
A.Governments protect politically powerful industries with characteristic control.
B.MNCs in manufacturing are accused of exploiting factory workers.
C.Although competition from a new foreign affiliate can stimulate local firms, the new
entry can also overwhelm them.
D.Multinational corporations are criticized for repatriating profits to host countries, so
that local residents get limited benefit from their presence.
In terms of levels of corporate power, on which of the following levels is business
power the direct cause of visible, immediate changes, both great and small?
A.Deep level
B.Profound level
C.Multilayered level
D.Surface level
When a civil court requires payments by a company that are in excess of actual losses
to injured parties, these payments are called:
A.supplementary damages.
B.punitive damages.
C.general damages.
D.compensatory damages.
Which of the following statutes was established to reform financial regulation and
prevent a recurrence of the 2007-2008 financial crisis?
A.The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
B.The Uniform Securities Act
C.The International Emergency Economic Powers Act
D.The Dodd-Frank Act
A formal pattern of relations that link people together in order to accomplish a goal is
a(n) ________.
A.society
B.idea
C.institution
D.ideology
Which of the following sketches stakeholders in categories and depicts their
relationship to the firm?
A.Analysis map
B.Stakeholder model
C.Stakeholder map
D.Concept map
Several features of American society support the thesis of pluralism. Which of the
following is one of them?
A.It has capitalist values.
B.It encompasses a small population spread over a small geography but engaged in
diverse occupations.
C.Its businesses are free of market pressures.
D.Its Constitution encourages pluralism.
All of the following countries are part of NAFTA except:
A.Argentina.
B.Canada.
C.the United States.
D.Mexico.
Values based on assumptions of security and affluence are known as _____ values.
A.survival
B.self-expressive
C.postmaterialist
D.materialist
This is the act of a corporation cloaking its lack of social responsibility by insincere
membership in the UN Global Compact.
A.Apartheid
B.Bluewashing
C.Snowballing
D.Astroturfing
The theory of land ethic:
A.holds that human domination of nature should cease.
B.indicates bias toward the members of one’s own species and against those of
members of other species.
C.means distributing land from the rich to the poor.
D.implies an ethical duty to nature as well as humanity.
With regard to MNCs in the United States:
A.it is still rare for top executives to be naturalized citizens.
B.boards of directors are dominated by foreign country majorities.
C.most employees at company headquarters are foreign country nationals.
D.each company must be chartered by a state.
Which of the following requires that affirmative action payment be made to make up
for past wrongs?
A.Utilitarian considerations
B.Norms of compensatory justice
C.Norms of distributive justice
D.Ethical theories of rights
Transportation is an example of which force in globalization?
A.Capital
B.Ideas
C.NGOs
D.Technology
The theory that the sole responsibility of a corporation is to optimize profits while
obeying the law is known as:
A.Monetarism.
B.Friedmanism.
C.Ordoliberalism.
D.Keynesianism.
_____ is a classless social system in which property is collectively owned and income
from labor is equally and indiscriminately divided among members.
A.Socialism
B.Capitalism
C.Anarchism
D.Fascism