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b.

GBB3063 /

GCB3063

What is

Lincoln Fallacy? Explain.

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Why

trade

experts find Lincoln's argument

misleading and

incomplete?

Discuss.

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c.

Finland and Japan

have

the following

output

per

hour of labor:

Finland Japan

Fishing

Rod 4

1

Clock

Radios 6

5

Under

the

theory

of comparative advantage,

Finland should

export

fishing rod to Japan and Japan

should export

clock

radios to Finland.

lf they do so,

both will be better off.

How

would

you

demonstrate

this?

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ii. Should

trade occur under absolute

advantage theory?

Why?

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As one of the

panel

of interviewers in GGG Corporation,

you

were advised

by

your

superior,

Mr

Alberto to take cultural backgrounds of

each

candidate as the maín criteria

for selection.

However,

you

believe that

while culture may lead to certain

behavioral

tendencies,

individual

behavior

within any

given

culture can also

vary

significantly.

How would

you

convince

Mr Alberto

that GGG Corporation

should

recognize the

limitations of sweeping

generalizations

about

people's

behavior based on their

cultural backgrounds? Support

your

answer

with

the

FIVE

(5)

fundamental

personality

traits that are

especially relevant

to

organizations.

a.3.

b.

Assess the driving

forces behind a rising imperatives to

create

Blue

Oceans.

Provide an example

how a company

successfully applies

value

innovation in

Blue Ocean Strategy.

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A country's

demography

constraínts

and shapes

the

opportunities

available

to it. lt is

reported that the

populations

of many

major economic

powers

-

including

France, ltaly,

Germany, South

Korea, and

Japan

predicted

to

get

older

and smaller over

the next two

decades.

Japan,

for

an

example,

is one of the

first major economies to

face

an aging,

shrinking

population....