The concept of a "flat" world means
A)employees are learning to suppress negative emotion in the workplace.
B)corporations are developing a preference for a new, flatter organizational structure.
C)a recession now slows the economies of most nations simultaneously.
D)globalization has leveled the playing field for emerging economies.
E)businesspeople are now more conservative in their approach to investment.

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American firms have been going out into the world in a major way, even as the world has been coming to us.This has led to what New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has called, in his book The World Is Flat, a phenomenon in which globalization has leveled (made "flat") the competitive playing fields between industrial and emerging-market countries.

The Concept of a "Flat" World Means