首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The modern multinational corporation is described as having originated when the owner-managersof nineteenth-century British firm
The modern multinational corporation is described as having originated when the owner-managersof nineteenth-century British firm
admin
2009-04-18
111
问题
The modern multinational corporation is described as having originated when the owner-managersof nineteenth-century British firms carrying on international trade were replaced by teams ofsalaried managers organized into hierarchies. Increases in the volume of transactions in such firmsare commonly believed to have necessitated this structural change. Nineteenth-century inventionslike the steamship and the telegraph, by facilitating coordination of managerial activities, aredescribed as key factors. Sixteenth-and seventeenth-century chartered trading companies, despitethe international scope of their activities, are usually considered irrelevant to this discussion: thevolume of their transactions is assumed to have been too low and the communications andtransport of their day too primitive to make comparisons with modern multinationals interesting.
In reality, however, early trading companies successfully purchased and outfitted ships, built andoperated offices and warehouses, manufactured trade goods for use abroad, maintained tradingposts and production facilities overseas, procured goods for import, and sold those goods both athome and in other countries. The large volume of transactions associated with these activitiesseems to have necessitated hierarchical management structures well before the advent of moderncommunications and transportation. For example, in the Hudson’s Bay Company, each far-flungtrading outpost was managed by a salaried agent, who carried out the trade with the NativeAmericans, managed day-to-day operations, and oversaw the post’s workers and servants. Onechief agent, answerable to the Court of Directors in London through the correspondencecommittee, was appointed with control over all of the agents on the bay.
The early trading companies did differ strikingly from modern multinationals in many respects.They depended heavily on the national governments of their home countries and thuscharacteristically acted abroad to promote national interests. Their top managers were typicallyowners with a substantial minority share, whereas senior managers’ holdings in modernmultinationals are usually insignificant. They operated in a pre-industrial world, grafting a systemof capitalist international trade onto a pre-modern system of artisan and peasant production.Despite these differences, however, early trading companies organized effectively in remarkablymodern ways and merit further study as analogues of more modern structures.
选项
A、modern multinationals originated in the sixtenth and seventeenth centuries with the establishment of chartered trading companies
B、the success of early chartered trading companies, like that of modern multinationals, depended primarily on their ability to carry out complex opertions
C、early chartered trading companies should be more seriously considered by scholars studying the origins of modern multinationals
D、scholars are quite mistaken concerning the origins of modern multinationals
E、the management structures of early chartered trading companies are fundamentally the same as those of modern multinationals
答案
C
解析
This question asks you to identify the author’s main point in the passage. The best answer is C. In the first paragraph, the author states that early chartered trading companies are usually not considered to be precursors of the modern multinational corporation. In the second paragraph, however, the author goes on to discuss similarities between early chartered trading companies and the modern multinational corporation. At the end of the passage the author asserts that early chartered trading companies “merit further study as analogues of more modern structures.” Choice A is incorrect
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/1AtO777K
本试题收录于:
GMAT VERBAL题库GMAT分类
0
GMAT VERBAL
GMAT
相关试题推荐
Although______happenedinthatdevelopedcountrysoundslikesciencefiction,itcouldoccurelsewhereintheworld.
Lookingbackonmychildhood,Iamconvincedthatnaturalistsarebornandnotmade.Althoughwewerebroughtupinthesameway
Whentherearecordialrelationsbetweenthetwocountries,wemeanthereexistsa______relationshipbetweenthem.
IfyoulookcloselyatsomeoftheearlycopiesoftheDeclarationofIndependence,beyondtheflourishedsignatureofJohnHanc
IfyoulookcloselyatsomeoftheearlycopiesoftheDeclarationofIndependence,beyondtheflourishedsignatureofJohnHanc
Friendshipisunconditionalanduncritical,basedonlyonmutualrespectandtheabilitytoenjoyeachother’scompany.Theseau
Frankfurt,Germany,isoneofthemost_______populatedregionsinWesternEurope.
Acompletelynewsituationislikelyto______whentheschoolleavingageisraisedto16.
______seemseasyintheoryseemsdifficultinpractice.
随机试题
某县人民法院以故意伤害罪判处被告人罗某有期徒刑4年,赔偿被害人陈某医疗费、误工费、生活补助费共计2万元。请根据案情回答下列问题。宣判后,若陈某认为对罗某量刑太轻,自己得到的民事赔偿也太少。陈某能否对本案提起上诉?()
真核生物RNA聚合酶I转录后可产生的是
第一恒磨牙萌出特点中不正确的是
A.壮骨关节丸B.龙胆泻肝丸C.克银丸D.痔血胶囊E.鼻炎宁药物不良反应可导致血压升高的是()。
根据行政许可法的规定,下列关于行政许可的撤销、撤回、注销的哪些说法是正确的?(2006年卷二第86题)
已知动点做匀速曲线运动,则其速度与加速度的关系为()。
财政的职能包括()。
Ishowyouaroundtheschool?
WhenhebroughtPennyherdrinkshegavehima(n)______,sweetsmileofthanks.
A、AlotofstolencreditcardsweresoldontheInternet.B、CheatontheInternet.C、ManyWebsitesaredestroyed.D、Manyillega
最新回复
(
0
)