Key Terms Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Key terms

1. Business driver: is a force in the environment in witch business most response and the influence the direction of the business.

2. Cooptation: is defined as bringing the opposition into the process designing and implementing without giving up, control the direction and nature of change.

3. Core systems: are systems that support functions that are absolutely critical to the organization.

4. Domestic exporter: strategy characterized by heavy centralization of corporate activities in the home county of origin.

5. Franchisers: are interesting mixes of old and new. On the one hand, the product is created, designed, financed and initially produced in the home country.

6. Global culture : created by television the internal and other globally show media ,such as movies ,now permits different cultures and people to develop common expectations about right and wrong ,describe and undiscribe ,heroic and cowardly .

7. International information systems architecture: consists of the basic information systems required by organizations to coordinate world wide trade and other activities.

8. Legitimacy is defined as the extent to witch your authority is accepted on ground of competence, visions and other qualities.

9. Multinational strategy: concentrates financial management and control out of a central home base while the centralizing production, sells, and marketing operations to unite other countries.

10. Global and domestic firms increasingly and are managing their hardware and software using global teams .sometimes this teams worked for the firm at offshore locations and in some instances, this teams are working for external vendors in offshore locations this practice is called Offshore software outsourcing .

11. Particularism is making judgments and taking actions and the basis of narrow or personal characteristic in all its forms, reject the very concept of a shared global culture and rejects the penetration...