Chapter 15 Flashcards
Business driver?
A force in the environment to which businesses must respond and that influences the direction of business.
Cooptation?
Bringing the opposite into the process of designing and implementing a solution without giving up control of the direction and nature of the change.
Core systems?
A system that supports functions that are absolutely critical to the organization.
Domestic exporter?
Form of business organization characterized by heavy centralization of corporate activities in the home country of origin.
Franchiser?
Form of business organization I which a product is created, designed, financed, and initially produced in the home country, but for product-specific reasons, relies heavily on foreign personnel for further production, marketing, and human resources.
Global culture?
The development of common expectations, shared artifacts, and social norms among different cultures and peoples.
International information systems architecture?
The basic information systems required by organizations to coordinate worldwide trade and other activities.
Legitimacy?
The extent to which one’s authority is accepted on grounds of competence, vision, or other qualities. Making judgments and taking actions on the basis of narrow or personal characteristics.
Multinational?
Form of business organization that concentrates financial management and control out of a central home base while decentralizing.
Particularism?
Making judgments and taking action on the basis of narrow or personal characteristics, in all it’s forms (religious, nationalistic, ethnic, regionalism, geopolitical position).
Software localization?
Process of converting software to operate in a second language.
Transborder data flow?
The movement of information across international boundaries in any form.
Transnational?
Truly globalized form of business organization with no national headquarters; value-added activities are managed from a global perspective without reference to national borders, optimizing sources of supply and demand and local competitive advantage.
