Quiz Ch. 3 & 4 IS

The feature of social institutions that means mechanisms are in place to determine responsibility for an action is called

Accountability

Which of the following is NOT one of the five steps discussed in the chapter as a process for analyzing an ethical issue Assign responsibility. Identify the stakeholders. Identify the options you can reasonably take. Identify and clearly describe the facts. Identify the potential consequences of your options.

Assign responsibility

All of the following could be considered substitute products for industrial electricity generation except solar wind coal hydro power ethanol

Ethanol

Which of the following is not one of the competitive forces in Porter's model? Suppliers Other competitors External environment Customers Technology

External environment

Which of the following statements about Flash cookies is NOT true

Flash cookies are installed only at the users request

___________ typically develop a single information system, usually at the home base, and then replicate it around the world

Franchisers

An information system can enable a company to focus on a market niche through

Intensive customer data analysis

Which of the following is a primary drawback of the "do anything anywhere" computing environment

It blurs the traditional boundaries between work and family time

A colleague of yours frequently takes small amounts of office supplies for his own personal use, noting that the loss to the company is minimal. You counter that if everyone were to take office supplies the loss would no longer be minimal. Your rationale expresses which of the following ethical principles?

Kant's categorical imperative

Which of the following is NOT protected by copyright law?

Machines

Internet technology

Makes it easy for rivals to compete on price alone

What percent of global internet users use google search and other google services

Nearly 80%

Which of the following is pursuing a transnational strategy? Catepillar Corporation Ford Motor Co Intel Corporation Nestle Starbucks

Nestle

The NAI is an industry association formed to help with which of the following?

Online privacy issues

Which of the following is NOT a file sharing service?

Pandora

The U.S. Department of Commerce developed a _____ framework in order to enable U.S. businesses to legally use personal data from EU countries

Safe harbor

Which of the following statements about spam is NOT true

Spamming is less regulated in Europe than in the United States

Which of the following statements bout cycle time is not true?

The fewer steps in a production process, the more likely that an error will occur

According to the chapter case, the Nike ecosystem is part of which of the following larger phenomena?

The internet of Things

The idea that the more any given resource is applied to production, the lower the marginal gain in output, until a point is reached where the additional inputs produce no additional output, is referred to as

The law of diminishing returns

Which of the following is not true about the changes to EU data protection rules proposed in 2012?

The new rules would reject the right to be forgotten

The emergence of software as a web service has acted as a disruptive technology for

Traditional boxed software companies

A __________ is a collection of independent firms that use information technology to coordinate their value chains to produce a product or service for a market collectively

Value web

Which of the following is not a true statement about value webs?

Value webs are inflexible and cannot adapt quickly to changes in supply and demand