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Trade Theory
Culture and Ethics
100

B2B - B2C

What is Business to Business and Business to Consumer?

100

a group, corporate, organization, member, or system that affects or can be affected by an organization's actions

What is a Stakeholder?

100

A person within an established business who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk taking and innovation.

What is an Intrapreneur?

100

the concept of exchanging goods and services between people or entities in two different countries.

What is International Trade?


100

Something that we prefer over something else—whether it’s a behavior or a tangible item. Acquired early in life and are usually nonrational.

What is a value?

200

SWOT

What are Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

200

someone living abroad temporarily or permanently for work, such as a company-assigned employee.

What is an expatriate?

200

Intra-industry trade

What is the concept of  trade between two countries of goods produced in the same industry?

200

A country’s wealth is determined by its holdings of gold and silver.

What is Mercantilism?

200

The specific values that identify broad preferences for one state of affairs over others, and they are mostly unconscious. There are six in total.

What are Hofstede's Value Dimensions?

300

BRICS

What is Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa?

300

creations of the mind, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, designs, and symbols, names, and images used in commerce, that are protected by law to give their creators exclusive rights and benefits.

What is intellectual property?

300

States that a product life cycle has three distinct stages: (1) new product, (2) maturing product, and (3) standardized product.

What is the Product life cycle theory?

300

•The ability of a country to produce a good more efficiently than another nation.

What is Absolute Advantage.

300

Ethnocentrism

What is the view that a person’s own culture is central and other cultures are measured in relation to it.

400

NGO

What is Non-Governmental Organization?


400

the moral principles, policies, and values that guide the conduct of individuals and organizations in a business environment, extending beyond legal requirements to cover fairness, honesty, and responsibility.

What are business ethics?

400

When the value of imports is greater than the value of exports.

What is a Trade Deficit?

400

Research and development

The ownership of intellectual property rights

Economies of scale

Unique business processes or methods as well as extensive experience in the industry

The control of resources or favorable access to raw materials

What are business driven barriers to entry?

400

the accepted principles of right or wrong that govern the conduct of businesspeople.

What are Business Ethics?

500

CAGE

The analytical framework used to understand country and regional differences along the distance dimensions of culture, administration, geography, and economics.

500

a imposed policy, regulation, action or restriction that limits or obstructs the free flow of international trade in goods and services.

What is a Trade Barrier?

500

The behavior patterns and norms of a group—the rules, the assumptions, the perceptions, and the logic and reasoning that are specific to a group.

What is Culture?

500

The four key determinants of national competitiveness:

•Local market resources and capabilities

•Local market demand conditions

•Local suppliers and complementary industries

•Local firm characteristics

What is Porter's National Competitive Advantage theory?

500

the business practice where companies include social and environmental concerns into their operations with the intent to be accountable and contribute to society, the economy, and the environment beyond their financial objectives.

What is Corporate Social Responsibility?