Unit 14: Globalization and Society - Practice Quiz

1 What does social responsibility mean for a global business?

2 Which group is a stakeholder of a multinational company?

3 What is the main purpose of corporate social responsibility (CSR)?

4 Which action best demonstrates responsible globalization?

5 A company publishes a report on its social and environmental performance. What is this practice called?

6 Which labor practice is generally considered unethical?

7 What is a basic purpose of workplace safety standards?

8 What is child labor?

9 Which principle supports fair treatment in international workplaces?

10 A supplier code of conduct commonly sets standards for which area?

11 What is environmental sustainability?

12 Which action can directly reduce a company's carbon emissions?

13 What does the principle "polluter pays" mean?

14 Which practice supports responsible waste management?

15 What is greenwashing?

16 What is the main purpose of competition law?

17 What is price-fixing?

18 What is a cartel?

19 In international trade, what is dumping?

20 Which legal measure may be imposed in response to proven dumping?

21 A multinational plans to enter a low-income country where local law permits wages below the amount needed for basic living expenses. Which policy best reflects socially responsible globalization?

22 A global retailer wants to support small suppliers in a developing economy without creating permanent dependence. Which initiative is most appropriate?

23 A company reports global job creation but does not disclose community displacement caused by a new factory. Which principle is most directly weakened?

24 Two possible factory sites offer equal financial returns. Site X has stronger worker protections and lower community disruption, while Site Y offers larger tax concessions. A stakeholder-oriented decision would favor which choice?

25 A food company adapts its global sourcing policy after consulting farmers, consumers, employees, and local communities. What is the main benefit of this approach?

26 An audit finds that supplier employees work excessive overtime voluntarily because their base wages are very low. What is the most ethical buyer response?

27 A supplier uses recruitment agencies that charge migrant workers large placement fees, leaving them indebted. Which action best addresses the ethical risk?

28 A factory passes scheduled inspections but workers privately report unsafe machinery. Which monitoring change is most likely to improve reliability?

29 A multinational discovers underage workers at a supplier. Which response best protects the children while correcting the violation?

30 Workers at an overseas supplier are legally permitted to organize, but management threatens to reduce shifts if they join a union. Which labor right is being undermined?

31 A manufacturer can legally discharge treated wastewater into a river, but scientific evidence suggests possible long-term ecosystem damage. Which principle supports taking additional preventive action?

32 A firm moves a highly polluting process to a country with weaker environmental rules while selling the output worldwide. What ethical concern does this most clearly illustrate?

33 A company claims that its product is carbon neutral because it purchases offsets, but it has made no effort to reduce avoidable emissions. Which improvement would make the claim more ethically credible?

34 A mining project is profitable but may impose water-treatment costs on nearby residents. Under the polluter-pays principle, who should bear those costs?

35 A global electronics producer wants to apply a circular-economy approach. Which policy is most consistent with that goal?

36 Three competing shipping companies secretly agree to charge the same fuel surcharge on international routes. Which practice is most likely involved?

37 A foreign producer sells goods in an export market below normal value, causing material injury to domestic producers. Which trade remedy may the importing country investigate?

38 Two major competitors propose a merger that would leave one firm controlling most of the national market. What is the competition authority's central concern?

39 A dominant digital platform requires sellers to buy its advertising service as a condition for accessing the marketplace. Which concern is most relevant?

40 An exporter receives a government subsidy tied directly to each unit exported, and the subsidized imports injure producers in the destination country. Which response may be available after investigation?

41 A multinational firm relocates production to a country with weaker labor and environmental regulation. The move lowers prices for consumers and creates employment, but the firm also receives tax concessions that reduce public revenue. Which assessment best reflects a socially responsible globalization strategy?

42 A company publishes an annual sustainability report showing reduced emissions per unit of output, while total emissions rise because production has doubled. Which conclusion is most defensible?

43 A global apparel brand discovers that its supplier complied with local law but used recruitment agents who charged migrant workers illegal debt-like fees. What is the most appropriate corporate response?

44 A corporation funds schools in a host community but pressures local authorities to approve a project without meaningful consultation. Which principle is most clearly violated?

45 A firm adopts a global code of conduct that exceeds local legal requirements but permits exceptions where compliance would materially reduce competitiveness. What is the principal weakness of this policy?

46 A supplier classifies workers as independent contractors, although it controls their schedules, tools, methods, and remuneration. Which ethical concern is most significant?

47 A factory meets the statutory minimum wage, but excessive unpaid overtime is necessary for workers to reach a subsistence income. Which judgment is strongest?

48 A multinational audits a supplier twice a year, but workers are coached to provide approved answers during announced inspections. Which control would most effectively improve ethical assurance?

49 A buyer imposes a sudden 20% price reduction on a supplier while maintaining the same delivery schedule, then penalizes the supplier for excessive overtime. What is the buyer's ethical responsibility?

50 A country legally permits workers under age 16 to perform nonhazardous part-time work, but a global company prohibits all employment below age 16. Why might the stricter rule be ethically justified?

51 A mining project produces essential minerals for renewable technologies but threatens a watershed used by downstream communities. Which decision framework is most ethically appropriate?

52 A company purchases carbon offsets for emissions from its supply chain, but the offset project may have occurred without the company's payment. What is the primary ethical problem?

53 A manufacturer moves a highly polluting process to a country with weaker enforcement while advertising a reduction in domestic emissions. Which ethical characterization is most accurate?

54 A firm evaluates a factory using a discount rate that makes environmental damage occurring decades later appear economically insignificant. Which ethical criticism is strongest?

55 A firm markets packaging as "biodegradable" because it decomposes in industrial facilities, although most consumers lack access to those facilities. What is the most appropriate conclusion?

56 Two competing firms independently adopt identical prices after observing each other's public price announcements. There is no direct communication. Which issue requires the most careful legal analysis?

57 A dominant digital platform requires sellers to use its payment service and ranks its own products above equally relevant rival products. Which legal concern is most plausible?

58 A firm sells a product abroad below its home-market price, but the price reflects lower transport costs and materially different customer demand. Which conclusion is most defensible regarding dumping?

59 A company advertises a temporary discount but keeps the product at the discounted price continuously, while suggesting that customers must buy immediately to avoid a higher price. Which unfair-trade concern is strongest?

60 A large manufacturer temporarily prices below average variable cost in a regional market where a smaller rival is financially vulnerable, then raises prices after the rival exits. Which additional fact would most strengthen a predatory-pricing case?