With a global strategy, headquarters seeks substantial control over its country operations in order to minimize redundancy and achieve maximum efficiency, learning, and integration worldwide

According to the Environmental Protection Agency:

a) a sublinear relationship exists between the amount of exposure to a toxic substance and the effect it has on human health. b) in the absence of a clear understanding of dose-response relationships at low doses, risk estimates should be based on a sublinear or threshold curve. c) there should be more regulation to limit human exposure when the risk estimate is based on the linear curve. d) the higher the inferred risk, the more justification there is for high expenditures to control polluting emissions.

Bantam Enterprises, a multi-national enterprise, makes significant efforts to avoid being perceived as socially irresponsible. What is the most likely reason for this?

A) Social irresponsibility can lead to labor strikes by international unions. B) Socially irresponsible companies usually have fewer exports and more imports. C) Cultural barriers increase for companies that are socially irresponsible, which hinders expansion into additional countries. D) Social irresponsibility can lead to negative publicity from nongovernmental organizations, which could hurt a company's reputation.