Why do U.S. companies moving into the international market need to be sensitive to the need for local country or regional responsiveness?

Strategic controls are largely subjective criteria intended to verify that the firm is using appropriate strategies for the conditions in the external environment and the company’s competitive advantages

Firms able to continually improve the processes used to produce, sell, distribute, and service their products across country borders enhance their ability to:

A society’s cultural characteristics influence a nation’s rate of entrepreneurship and its related practices

ValCor’s structure is made up of complex and flexible reporting relationships. The firm focuses on the marketing and product R&D functions. It is likely that ValCor employs the functional structure to implement the differentiation strategy

Distributed strategic networks are the organizational structure used to manage international cooperative strategies

Employees usually have a strong preference for firms to use the internal managerial labor market when selecting top management team members and the CEO

Selection of an insider as a new CEO indicates a firm’s desire to encourage innovation and strategic change

Attitudes toward corporate governance in Japan are affected by the concepts of obligation, family, and consensus

All of the following are correct about what managers should know about firms based in a country with a national competitive advantage EXCEPT: