According to Mendenhall and Oddou, expatriate managers who tend to treat foreign nationals as if they were home-country nationals lack the dimension of:

Which of the following research and development related costs should be capitalized and depreciated over current and future periods?

a. Research and development general laboratory building which can be put to alternative uses in the future b. Inventory used for a specific research project c. Administrative salaries allocated to research and development d. Research findings purchased from another company to aid a particular research project currently in process

The reason we include net export expenditures in gross domestic product calculations is:

A. Knowing that the underground economy wasn't included, there was a need to "plug a hole" to improve the equation. B. Economists wanted to emphasize the macroeconomic effect of the recent growth in foreign imports. C. Net exports most accurately provide the sales of domestic goods and services exported minus domestic consumption of imported goods and services. D. The government wanted to boost weak GDP numbers by adding another component to the equation. E. This is a requirement of the United Nations.