Employees, at their own initiative, can go to socialtext or google sites and set up a wiki, wordpress to start blogging, or subscribe to a saas offering like salesforce, all without corporate oversight and approval. this of technology is one of the challenges associated with the adoption of saas models. crowdsourcing disintermediation integration scalability consumerization

You are an employee of an u.s. firm that produces personal computers in thailand and then exports them to the united states and other countries for sale. the personal computers were originally produced in thailand to take advantage of relatively low labor costs and a skilled workforce. other possible locations considered at that time were malaysia and hong kong. the u.s. government decides to impose punitive 100% ad valorem tariffs on imports of computers from thailand to punish the country for administrative trade barriers that restrict u.s. exports to thailand. how do you think your firm should respond? what does this tell you about the use of targeted trade barriers?

To assess the risk and return involved in a purchase decision, which practical questions should a potential buyer ask? select three options. what can go wrong? what are the alternatives? how will it affect my status in society? what is the likely return? is the risk worth the return?

Given the production function q=96(k^0.3)(l^0.7), find the mpk and mpl functions. is mpk a function of k alone, or of both k and l? what about mpl?