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Q: (p. 130) Milton Friedman believes that the sole objective of managers should be maximization of profit.

Q: Caterpillar University enables e-learning through its knowledge management system called A) Caterpillar Knowledge Network. B) Butterfly Knowledge Network. C) CAT Universal Network. D) CAT Prep.

Q: (p. 128) During the Progressive era in U.S. history, business managers were considered to be trustees of their local communities.

Q: The three major elements of Caterpillar Inc.'s learning infrastructure include A) governance. B) a learning technology infrastructure. C) an alignment strategy. D) all of the above.

Q: C2C is an e-commerce model in which consumers sell directly to other consumers.

Q: (p. 127) According to Herbert Spencer, charity is right only when it raises the character and superiority of the giver.

Q: Collaborative commerce is an e-commerce technology that can be used to improve collaboration within and among organizations, frequently in supply chain relationships.

Q: (p. 126) According to the doctrine of neo-Darwinism, charity interferes with the natural evolutionary process in which society sheds its less fit to make way for the better adapted.

Q: Expert location systems are designed to assist in career development.

Q: (p. 124) According to the radical Progressives, corporate social responsibility is an insufficient doctrine.

Q: Gurus is an online knowledge marketplace where experts exchange information with seekers via a live video chat session for a prearranged fee.

Q: (p. 123) Corporate social responsibility has a definite, universal meaning.

Q: Knowledge management as it relates to EC and IT is easy to implement.

Q: (p. 123) The duty of a company to create wealth in ways that avoid harm to, protect, or enhance societal assets is called corporate social responsibility.

Q: Organizational knowledge is embedded in human capital, structured capital, and customer and partner capital.

Q: (p. 95) Socialism is a classless social system in which property is collectively owned and income from labor is equally and indiscriminately divided among members.

Q: Competing software and hardware standards are one of several limitations of e-books.

Q: (p. 95) The progressive movement was a turn-of-the-nineteenth-century social movement that associated moderate social reform with progress.

Q: Durability, portability, and searchable text are three advantages of e-books.

Q: (p. 94) Plutocracy refers to a society that is ruled by the wealthy.

Q: According to Ellis (2009), a robust learning management system should be able to consolidate training initiatives on a scalable Web-based platform.

Q: (p. 93) The populists wanted private individuals to own railroad, telegraph, telephone companies, and banks.

Q: In VIS, static models display systems that evolve over time, and the evolution can be presented by animation.

Q: (p. 92) Dystopia refers to a socially engineered model of alternative community that is designed to correct faults in the world so its members can find happiness.

Q: Students do not learn as much in a virtual world, such as Second Life, as they normally do in a traditional classroom.

Q: (p. 91) Thomas Jefferson believed that an agrarian economy would prevent the rise of subservience to the wealthy and bring a state of equality, basic justice, and concern for the common good.

Q: Companies use social networks for training and development.

Q: E-learning can be extended to students who are not computer literate and do not have access to the Internet.

Q: (p. 90) The popular theoretician of the rising American capitalist spirit was Adam Smith.

Q: (p. 89) Unlike European peasants, American farmers owned their land and this turned them into little capitalists.

Q: It is easy to control the transmission of copyrighted works downloaded from an e-learning platform.

Q: (p. 88) The market price of a ware refers to the price that is determined by the interaction of supply and demand.

Q: An important advantage of e-learning is that it provides a fear-free and privacy-protected environment in which students can put forth any idea without fear of looking stupid.

Q: (p. 87) Plato believed that virtues such as courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom which he called "goods of the soul" were superior to "external goods," which he defined as possessions and money.

Q: Because of the technology involved, the cost of providing an e-learning experience is 50-70 percent greater than the traditional classroom.

Q: One limitation of e-learning is the lower content retention rate among learners compared to traditional in-person training.

Q: (p. 86) An agrarian society is a preindustrial society in which economic, political, and cultural values are based on agricultural experience.

Q: E-learning generally refers to purely Web-based learning.

Q: Summarize the rise of neoliberalism.

Q: Most countries have adopted legislation for data and information practices that spell out the rights of citizens and the responsibilities of the data holders.

Q: What is meant by liberalism, economic liberalism, Keynesianism, and neoliberalism?

Q: The ability to reach a larger number of people through mobile devices is one benefit of m-government.

Q: Describe the views of the old Progressives and the new Progressives. What are the three basic beliefs that prompt them to act?

Q: M-government relies heavily on intranets and extranets for communicating with citizens.

Q: Discuss the concept of socialism. Who is the originator of modern socialist doctrine? What were Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' views on socialism?

Q: Discuss the progressive reform movement in America.

Q: Many governments own islands on Second Life on which they present diplomatic issues and advertise tourist attractions.

Q: Describe the populist movement in America.

Q: Governments are using Web 2.0 tools mainly for collecting taxes and fines and for making benefit payments.

Q: The U.S. Navy provides a Lifelines portal, a G2E, to improve the quality-of-life flow of information to sailors and their families.

Q: How did the attitude toward business change during the modern era?

Q: Explain the prevailing theology of the Roman Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.

Q: Intelink is a G2G service that helps state governments locate information about child support, including data on paternity and enforcement of child-support obligations.

Q: By adding biometrics to the smart cards of beneficiaries, the government expects to substantially reduce fraud in its electronic benefits transfer (EBT) program.

Q: Discuss Plato's and Aristotle's views on commercial activity.

Q: The smart card system is used for electronic benefits transfer (EBT) in the United States to reduce fraud and processing costs.

Q: Discuss the ancient agrarian societies of Greece and Rome

Q: In the United States, during the 2008 presidential election, the candidates used blogs, social networks, and e-mail to reach and influence potential voters.

Q: (p. 93) What was the populist movement?

Q: Major areas of government-to-citizens (G2C) activities include social services, tourism and recreation, and research and education.

Q: Define utopia.

Q: Creating easy-to-find single points of access to government services for individuals is a G2B performance objective.

Q: What is the Protestant ethic?

Q: An objective of G2G is to decrease response times for jurisdictions and disciplines to respond to emergency incidents.

Q: (p. 88) What is just price?

Q: The government-to-citizens (G2C) category of e-government includes all of the interactions between a government and its citizens that can take place electronically.

Q: (p. 86) What is an agrarian society?

Q: E-government is an e-commerce model that applies only to the interaction of a government with its business suppliers.

Q: (p. 109) The call to pressure a company by not buying its products and services is known as a(n): A. boycott. B. injunction. C. picketing. D. economic sanction.

Q: Online learning saves time and money by allowing information to be distributed quickly and by reducing travel costs.

Q: (p. 107) The Group of Eight has now expanded and is currently known as: A. G20. B. G24. C. G77. D. G8 + 5.

Q: Engagement is the extent to which employees commit, rationally or emotionally, to the organization and how hard they work as a result of this commitment.

Q: (p. 106) The term Chicago School is synonymous with: A. Keynesianism. B. neoliberalism. C. ordoliberalism. D. imperialism.

Q: List five generic types of portals.

Q: (p. 105-106) Milton Friedman, his colleagues, and their free market ideas are known as the ____, a shorthand term for a doctrine of privatization, free trade, and deregulation. A. Stockholm School B. Freiburg School C. Chicago School D. Austrian School

Q: What are the three major functions of exchanges?

Q: (p. 105) Milton Friedman: A. advocated policies to minimize the market's role. B. wanted the practice of Social Security to continue. C. wanted the detailed regulations of industries to continue. D. desired to turn America's national parks over to corporations.

Q: (p. 105) _____ is an economic philosophy of active state intervention to stabilize the economy and stimulate employment. A. Protectionism B. Keynesianism C. Marxism D. Monetarism

Q: Identify five of the seven types of e-procurement.

Q: (p. 104) Adam Smith's vision of _____ capitalism defined the essence of economic liberalism. A. laissez-faire B. modified market C. neoliberal D. state