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College Graduates tend to earn ___ to ____ more than high school graduates over the course of their careers |
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_________ provides you with an array of personal contacts on whom you can call for career advice and help. |
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The SQ3R study system recommends these five practices to stay up to date with assignments and do well in class every day |
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1. Survey
2. Question
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Tangible products such as Computers, food, clothing, cars, and appliances |
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Intangible Products such as education, health care, insurance, recreation, travel and tourism |
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Any activity that seeks to provide goods or services to others while operating at a profit |
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A person who risks time and money to start and manage a business |
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The total amount of money a business takes in during a given period when selling goods and services |
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The amount of money a business earns after expenses are deducted |
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When a business' expenses are more than its revenues |
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The chance an entrepreneur takes of losing time and money on a business |
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The amount of goods and services that people can buy with the money they have |
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The general well being of a society in terms of:
1. political freedom
2.natural environment
3.education
4.health care
5. safety
6. amount of leisure
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What are the 7 definitions of Quality of Life? |
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1. Political freedom
2. Natural Environment
3. Education
4. Health Care
5. Safety
6. Amount of rewards that add to the satisfaction and joy that other goods and services provide |
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The people who stand to gain or lose by the policies and activities of a business and whose concerns a business needs to address |
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Contracting with other companies to do some or all of the functions of a firm |
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balancing the demands of stakeholders and the business is a major role of a ________ |
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an organization whose goals do not include making a personal profit for its owners or organizers |
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The most important factor to increasing a nation's wealth is |
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According to John Locke, this fundamental element, being a subset and necessary factor of the free enterprise system, is necessary for prosparity and for economic potential: |
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Which is the most accurate statement about the impact of business on society?
A. When businesses earn a profit for their owners, it usually is at the expense of the rest of society
B. Businesses may improve quality of life but do little to improve standard of living within a society
C. Businesses often improve quality of life, but do little to improve quality of life of most people due to inflation.
D.Businesses can have a positive impact on both the standard of living and the quality of life within a society. |
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Howard Schultz built his global business by providing _________. This includes excellent service, free wifi, and a comfortable space with soft music, designs that he 'imported' from the Italian expresso bars he encountered in Italy. |
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In businesses like a lawn maintenance company, the trucks, mowers, and other necessary equipment purchased for the business are called__________ |
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The chance that a business owner will lose the time and money invested in a business that proves to be unprofitable is called: |
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a person who assumes the risk of starting a business is a(n): |
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Which of the following most describes a belief expressed by Adam Smith?
A. Incentives to seek personal gain would create wealth
B. The government must then step in to make sure that
this wealth is equitably distributed
C. Government should limit the property rights of the
individual
D. Revenue and costs should be equal |
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When spending a vacation in Europe, Jim found that his U.S. dollar did not last as long as he had been told--each time he exchanged his U.S. Dollars for Euros, he had to give up more U.S. Dollars for Euros. The most likely explination is that:
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The Euro gained strength against the dollar |
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When the price of a popular item is falling in a free-market system where everything else is equal, the most likely explanation is: |
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The product has competition at the equilibrium price |
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When a business has few rivals and togather they dominate the entire market, their market environment is called a(n): |
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The marketing attempt to get buyers to think similar products are different in some way is called: |
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When a company shifts focus from original business design of emphasizing employee training and customer oriented service to new products and emphases on coupons that is an example of a company:
A. abandoning its traditional and foundational values
B. Increasing Profit
C. Lowering Costs |
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Under the _______ system there is very little incentive to work hard or produce quality goods or services. |
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Under a system of floating change rates, changes in the value of the US dollar relative to other currencies are the result of: |
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Changes in the supply and demand of and /or demand for dollars in the global currency market |
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When a business' total revenue is exceeded by the incurred total costs, this is called |
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The statistic used to compute the pace of inflation or deflation is the________. |
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A very severe recession that is usually accompanied by an increase in the average level of prices is called a: |
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One reason that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is monitored very closely by government, businesses, and workers is that:
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The gross domestic product is computed from the reported increases in the CPI |
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The Federal Reserve Bank's efforts to control the money supply and interest rates are known as: |
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When the Federal Reserve Bank wants to take a course of action to slow the economy in order to control inflation, the policy they SHOULD pursue is: |
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restrict the money supply and increase interest rates |
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Firms such as McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and KFC have entered the global market by offering investors the opportunity to buy: |
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A partnership in which two or more companies (often from different countries) join to undertake a major project is a(n): |
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In order to experiment in new markets without incurring large start up costs involved with building production facilities where labor is cheap and production sites are owned by other companies, the sensible strategy to take is to use: |
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Milton Freidman said that the only obligation or 'social conscience' that a company had was to: |
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the practice of lowering the value of a nation's currency relative to other currencies is called:
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Which is true about a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP):
A. It protects the partners from any suit by the client
B. It guarantees that none of the partners will lose more than the amount they invested into the company
C. It guarantees that only those partners who were directly involved in the actual work or service are the ones facing unlimited liability for claims against the firm
D. It will enable the firm to quickly reorganize with only minor financial losses. |
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The form of business ownership best suited to raising large amounts of money for expansion is the: |
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Special problems for U.S. firms attempting to enter global markets, such as insufficient electrical power and transportation systems, are |
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Physical and environmental differences |
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When a business develops a code of ethics, it should be communicated to: |
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everyone with whom the business has dealings |
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Creating competition without ground rules between employees within a corporation:
a. Can encourage employees to deceive other emplyees and customers
b. Should focus on improving corporate profit
c. must be ignored when corporate eithics are developed
d. can bring out the best in employees |
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When Managers disregard ethical concerns, the likely result is: |
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a general distrust between workers and management |
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an organization owned and controlled by the producers, workers, and consumers with similar needs who pooled their resources for mutual gain is called a: |
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Which are the true risks of a General Partnership?
A. The Partners can lose their personal assets
B. The partners can lose only the funds they originally invested into the company
C. The partners can lose only the total value of the assets actually used to operate the business
D. The Partners legally avoid any liability for the company's debts since it is considered a business entity that is separate and distinct from the partners that own it. |
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The __________ act, also known as the whistle-blower act, protects persons from retaliation who report an employer's illegal or unethical behavior to the proper government official. |
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A business that hires or rewards employees based on merit or achievement rather than other factors, such as family lineage, skin color, religion, etc.is an example of a: |
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The surrounding factors that either help or hinder the development of business |
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The Capitalist system relies heavily on these fundamental traits in government, business owners, and customers. When these are not present, it weakens the entire system: |
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Honesty, integrity, and high ethical standards
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The amount of output generated given the amount of input |
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The buying and selling of goods over the internet |
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what are the five necessary ingredients of employee empowerment needed to respond quickly to customer requests? |
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Freedom
Responsibility
Authority
Training
Equipment
(or F.R.A.T.E.) |
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Which industry makes up about 70% of the value of the U.S. Economy? |
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The study of how society chooses to employ resources to produce goods and services and distribute them for consumption among various competing groups and individuals is called: |
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The part of economics study that looks at an operation of a nation's economy as a whole: |
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The part of economics study that looks at the behavior of people and organizations in particular markets |
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The study of how to increase resources and to create conditions that will make better use of those resources |
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Followers of this economist subscribe to the belief that there are too many people in the world and that the solution to poverty is radical birth control, including forced abortions and sterilization |
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A phrase coined by Adam Smith to describe the process that turns self directed gain into social and economic benefits for all |
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An economic system in which all or most of the factors of production and distribution are privately owned and operated for profit |
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What are the four basic rights under free-market capitalism? |
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1. Right to own private property
2. The right to own a business and keep all that business' profits
3. The right to freedom of competition
4. The right to freedom of choice. |
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The quantity of products the manufacturers or owners are willing to sell at different prices at a specific time |
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The quantity of products that people are willing to buy at different prices at a specific time |
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The price determined by supply and demand |
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The degree of competition in which there are many sellers in the market and none are large enough to dictate the price of the product |
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the degree pf competition in which a large number of sellers produce very similar products that buyers nevertheless perceive as different |
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a degree pf competition in which just a few sellers dominate the market |
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a degree of competition in which only one seller controls the total supply of a product or service, and sets the price |
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an economic system based on the premise that some or most basic businesses should be owned by the government so that the profits can be more evenly distributed among the people |
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free education through college, free health care, longer vacations, work fewer hours a week, more employee benefits, and free child care are some of the benefits of a ___________ government |
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The loss of the best and brightest people to other countries is called a: |
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an economic and political system in which the government makes almost all economic decisions and own all the major factors of production is |
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economic systems in which the market largely determines what goods andservices get produced, who gets them, and how the economy grows are: |
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economic systems in which the government largely decides what goods and services will be produced, who will get them, and how the economy will grow: |
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economic systems where some allocation of resources are made by the market and some by the government |
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The total value of final goods and services produced in a country in a given year. |
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) |
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The general rise in prices of goods and services over time |
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a situation in which price increases are slowing |
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a situation in which prices are declining |
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a situation when the economy is slowing but prices are going up |
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Monthly statistics that measure the pace of inflation and deflation |
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Consumer Price Index (CPI) |
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Some wages, salaries, rents and leases, tax brackets, government benefits, and interest rates are based on the __________, which is what makes it an important figure. |
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an index that measures prices at the wholesale level |
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producer price index (PPI) |
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The periodic rises and falls that occur in economies over time |
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Two or more consecutive quarters of decline in the Gross Domestic Product |
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a severe recession usually accompanied by deflation |
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The sum of government deficits over time |
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The theory that a government policy of increasing spending and cutting taxes could stimulate the economy in a recession |
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Keynesian economic theory |
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the management of the monitary supply and interest rates by the Federal Reserve Bank |
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what are the two major tools for managing the economy of the United States? |
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fiscal policy (government taxes and spending) and monitary spending (the Fed's control over interest rates and the money supply) |
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what are the four phases of business cycles? |
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economic boom
recession
depression
recovery |
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Buying products from another country |
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selling products to another country |
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the movement of goods and services among nations without political or economic barriers |
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A theory that states that a country should sell to other countries those products that it produces most effectively and efficiently and buy from other countries those products that it cannot produce as effectively or efficiently |
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comparatively advantage theory |
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the advantage that exists when a country has a monopoly on producing a specific product or is able to produce it more efficiently than other countries |
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the total balance of a nation's exports compared to to its imports measured over over a particular period |
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a favorable balance of trade that occurs when the value of a country's exports exceeds that of its imports |
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an unfavorable balance of trade that occurs when the value of a country's imports exceeds that of its exports |
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the difference between money coming into a country and money leaving the country |
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selling products in a foreign country at lower prices than those charged in the producing country |
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a global strategy in which a firm allows a foreign company to produce its product in exchange for a fee |
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a foreign country's production of private label goods to which a domestic company then attaches its brand name or trademark. |
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a long term partnership between two or more companies established to help each company build competative market advantages |
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the buying of permanent property and businesses in foreign nations |
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foreign direct investment (FDI) |
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a company that is owned in a foreign country by another company, called the Parent Company |
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An organization that manufactures and markets products in many different countries and has multinational stock ownership and multinational management |
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multinational corporation |
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investment funds controlled by governments holding large stakes in foreign companies |
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sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) |
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U.S Business people are often accused of an attitude that their own culture is superior to other cultures--this attitude is called: |
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the value of one nation's currency relative to the currencies of other countries |
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lowering the value of a nation's currency relative to other currencies |
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a complex form of bartering in which several countries may be involved, each trading goods for goods or services for services |
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the use of government regulations to limit the import of goods and services |
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a limit of the number of products in certain categories that a nation can import |
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a complete ban on the import or export of a certain product, or the stopping of all trade with a particular country |
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a 1948 agreement that established an international forum for negotiating mutual reductions in trade restrictions |
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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) |
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The international organization that replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and was assigned the duty to mediate trade disputes among nations |
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World Trade Organization (WTO) |
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a regional group of countries that have a common external tariff, no internal tariffs, and a coordination of laws to facilitate exchange |
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an agreement that created a free trade area among the United States, Canada, and Mexico |
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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) |
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standards of moral behavior that are accepted by society as right versus wrong |
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ethical standards that emphasize preventing unlawful behavior by increasing and by punishing wrongdoers |
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compliance-based ethics codes |
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ethical standards that define an organization's guiding values, create an environment that supports ethically sound behavior, and stresses a shared accountability among employees |
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integrity-based ethics codes |
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insiders who report illegal or unethical behavior |
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A business's concern for the welfare of society |
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corporate social responsibility (CSR) |
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the dimension of social responsibility that includes charitable donations |
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enhanced forms of corporate philanthropy directly related to the company's competencies |
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corporate social initiatives |
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everything from hiring minority workers to making safe products, minimizing pollution, using energy wisely, and providing a safe work environment. |
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The position a firm takes on social and political issues |
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The four basic right of consumers according to President John F. Kennedy |
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safety
being informed
choice
being heard |
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an unethical activity in which insiders use private company information to further their own fortunes or those of their family and friends |
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a systematic evaluation of an organization's progress toward implementing socially responsible and responsive programs |
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