Japanese businesses are often characterized by their slow decision-making processes: decisions that are made low on the hierarchy of power must often by accepted by each level up the corporate hierarchy in turn before they are actually implemented. This kind of decision making is characteristic of what kind of business culture?

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D) A culture that is uncomfortable with ambiguity, risk, and change will be characterized by uncertainty avoidance, which means that it is more likely to rely on approval from all levels of a hierarchy.

Japanese Businesses Are Often Characterized by Their Slow Decision-Making Processes