List at least four general cultural factors and four specific ...

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List at least four general cultural factors and four specific business factors driving global business. Which two factors (one of each) do you feel are most problematic at the current moment? Why?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Which of the following statements about RFID is not true?
 
  A) RFIDs transmit only over a short range.
  B) RFIDs use an antenna to transmit data.
  C) Microchips embedded in RFIDs are used to store data.
  D) RFIDs require line-of-sight contact to be read.
  E) RFID tags and antennas come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

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Answer to Question 1

General cultural factors include global communication and transportation technologies, development of the global culture, emergency global social norms, political stability, and a global knowledge base. Specific business factors include global markets, global production operations, global coordination, global workforce, and global economies of scale.
One answer might be that two general cultural factors most in danger at the current moment are political stability and development of a global culture (either would be a good answer). Two business factors most problematic at the moment are global coordination and global workforce. Coordinating work on a truly global scale requires a fairly high level of corporation sophistication that only a small number of large firms are truly capable of on a real-time basis; and there is significant opposition in both developed and under-developed countries to changes in local labor markets which are threatened by global trade.

Answer to Question 2

D