GCC Final
User-generated content
A customer tweeting about a recent bad shopping experience is using which type of media communication:
Corporate crisis
A significant business disruption that stimulates extensive news media and social networking coverage is called a:
Biotechnology
A technological application that uses biological systems of living organisms to make or modify products or processes for specific use is called:
Carbon neutriality
An organization that produces net zero emissions of greenhouse gases is achieving:
Philanthropy
Another term for corporate giving is corporate:
More important
As communications improve and people around the world are able to witness the horrors of natural disasters, terrorism and war, international relief effort by corporations are becoming:
Cost savings from operational efficiency, opportunity to serves emerging economies, reduction of regulatory risk
Both large and small businesses have adopted sustainable practices to what advantage:
The solutions provided and the expected experience
Brand management often involves conveying what about a product or service?
Education, public services, transportation systems
Business depends on the community for:
Entire corporate direction.
Corporate governance involves the exercise of control over a company's:
Which of these accurately describes a Super PAC
Does not allow direct contributions to candidates or political parties.
Cybercrime
Downloading illegal files, spreading computer viruses, and stealing from online bank accounts is collectively reffered to as:
Accepting responsibility, Expressing regret
During crisis management, doing the right thing should include:
Threaten to leave a location unless a desired political action is taken
Economic leverage occurs when a business uses it economic power to:
All of the above
Environmental regulations stimulate sectors of the economy by:
Clean technology
General Electric's "Ecomagination" effort to invest in clean technology is an example of:
Normally legal, Considered unethical by over 50% of Americans.
Hiring former government officials for positions in the corporate world is:
New mechanisms for stealing data, trafficking contraband and money laundering have emerged
How has the increase in information technology affected criminal activities globally?
Bear Market
In 2008 and early 2009, share values declined sharply as the global economy fell into a severe recession. This type of stock market is referred to as a:
Welcomed as a way to increase crop yields
In some economically developed countries and most developing countries around the world GMO was:
Air pollution, water pollution, land pollution
In the US, the federal government regulates which of the following major areas of environmental protection?
Protecting one's ideas, concepts and symbolic creations
Intellectual Property refers to:
Collecting information regarding the lifelong environmental impact of a product, from extraction to disposal
Life-cycle analysis involves:
Earnings and expenses
Lobbyists, under U.S. law, must disclose their:
Often get the benefit of the doubt in uncertain circumstances
Organizations with strong positive reputations are generally more successful because they:
A pluralistic system invites many participants, business is a vital stockholder of government
Proponents of business as a political participant argue:
Business, Special Interest Groups, Government
Public policies and government regulations are shaped by:
Rising incomes, bringing higher rates of both consumption and waste
Rapid economic development is often accompanied by:
Suppress political dissent, impose religious or ideological views
Restrictive governments often reduce or eliminate citizen access to the internet and social media sites in order to?
Supreme Court rulings, executive action
Since 2000, most changes to federal regulatory oversight of environment protection have been due to:
Funds set aside for company events
Social capital is a phrase that refers to all the following, except:
Globally
Software piracy is a major problem in which part of the world?
Competitive advantages
Some researchers believe that business firms moving towards ecological sustainability results in:
Balances economic and environmental considerations
Sustainable development:
Managers act in their own interest, rather than in the interest of shareholders
The agency problem arises when:
Businesses who use e-business and those who do not
The digital divide describes the gap between those:
Lobbying
The information strategy tool most used by business is:
Protect shareholders' rights by making sure that stock markets are run fairly
The mission of the SEC is to:
Phishing
The practice of using fake business emails in order to trick users into divulging personal data, such as usernames and passwords is called:
Ensure that the public is protected
The primary reason that governments try to keep peace with technology is to:
Increase protection of privacy and personal information
The purpose of the right to be forgotten is to:
The active involvement of businesses and individuals in improving communities
The term civic engagement describes:
The cost of robots has decreased, robots are more reliable than people, new collaborative machines have been invented
The use of robotics in the workplace has increased recently because:
Image
The way organizational members believe others see the organization is called the corporate
Dodd-Frank Act
This law tightened regulation on issuers of complex securities, especially those related to subprime mortgages
Business leaders speaking before government policymakers.
To influence government policymakers' actions, an information strategy involves:
Provides early diagnosis of diseases, spurs new ways to prevent illnesses
What are the benefits of sequencing the human genome?
To expand environmental sustainabilitiy
What is one reason that firms partner with communities to increase economic development?
To build relationships with important community groups
What is the primary goal of a community relations department?
The development of long-term partnerships between companies in developed and developing countries to transfer environmental technologies.
Which of the following illustrates the idea of sustainable development through technology cooperation?
Hold regular meetings without the CEO present
Which of the following is a key feature of effective board of directors?
To vote on who will become CEO
Which of the following is not a legal right of shareholders?
Corporate restructuring
Which of the following is not a possible cost of environmental regulation?
The proportion of institutional ownership of stock in the U.S. has declined slowly since the 1960s
Which of the following is not true about institutional investors
All of the above
Which of the following is true regarding a recognizable brand?
It is a nonrenewable resource
Which of the following statements is not true about arable land?
The government rarely interferes in a business's choice of pollution technology
Which of the following statements is not true about environmental standards?
The own equal shares of company assets
Which of the following statements is not true about shareholders?
It is one of mutual interdependence
Which of the following statements is true about the relationship between business and the community?
Some nations have protected personal privacy and others accessed private information for the public good
Which of these actions have Western nations taken to fight cybercrime
Rapid Industrialization
Which of these factors has accelerated the current ecological crisis
Ignoring or downplaying an organizational crisis
Which of these situations is not a reason for a firm to communicate through the media
Smart manufacturing, wireless networks, processing of enormous amounts of data
Which of these specializations was/were spurred by the rapid changes in technology over the past few decades
Setup a system of voluntary cybersecurity standards, opened a new center dedicated to managing cyber activities
Which of these steps has the US recently taken to counter cybercrime?