• International management activities in a firm begin either when the firm's managers initiate the greenfield investment or acquire an existing host-country firm.
• Under therule, the first party to file a patent application in a given jurisdiction is awarded the patent.
• Sharing investments and costs across products, markets, and businesses is an example of source, from which a company can derive competitive advantage.
• Is the extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations.