When The Gap posts the results of its ethics audit on its website, it is engaged in which of the following steps of the ethics auditing process?

A) Submit the results to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
B) Define the scope of the audit.
C) Collect and analyze relevant information.
D) Verify the results.
E) Report the results.

The best definition of capital markets is:

A) The possibility of conflicts between shareholders and management in a large corporation.
B) The process of planning and managing a firm's long-term investments.
C) A venue where long-term debt and equity securities are bought and sold.
D) The purchase or sale of securities whose value derives from the price of another, underlying, asset.
E) A venue where buyers and sellers of capital equipment come together to trade such assets.

When Cisco Systems Inc. of San Jose, California, and Tata Consultancy Services of Mumbai, India, entered into a relationship, they both continued to develop market-ready infrastructure and network solutions for customers, but they relied on each other to provide the training and skills that one or the other might have lacked. This relationship is best described as

A) NAFTA.
B) a strategic alliance.
C) CAFTA.
D) an international partnership.
E) a joint venture.

According to Carsten and colleagues,proactive followers ______.

A) are high in the conscientiousness trait
B) place leader goals ahead of company mission
C) support the leader under all circumstances
D) put the organization's goals ahead of the leader's goals

The textbook identifies two in-house methods that may be used to collect compensation data.Which of the following is classified as an "in-house" source?

A) formal surveys
B) government agencies
C) consultants
D) industry groups

A firm has two products that must be used together.The firm sells one of the items at a very low price and profits from the sale of the second,high margin item.The firm is most likely using the ________ pricing strategy.

A) cross subsidy
B) market skimming
C) product positioning
D) market penetration