Which of the following captures the guiding principles of the socio-technical view of management information systems? a) It makes no distinction between social and technical systems.

b) It makes a distinction between social and technical systems, and argues that they need to be jointly optimized

c) It makes a distinction between social and technical systems, and argues that they need to be optimized separately.

Write a program that asks the user to enter the name of an input file. if the file does not exist, the program should prompt the user to enter the file name again. if the user types quit in any uppercase/lowercase combinations, then the program should exit without any further output.

3. ranga ramasesh is the operations manager for a firm that is trying to decide which one of four countries it should research for possible outsourcing providers. the first step is to select a country based on cultural risk factors, which are critical to eventual business success with the provider. ranga has reviewed outsourcing provider directories and found that the four countries in the table that follows have an ample number of providers from which they can choose. to aid in the country selection step, he has enlisted the aid of a cultural expert, john wang, who has provided ratings of the various criteria in the table. the resulting ratings are on a 1 to 10 scale, where 1 is a low risk and 10 is a high risk. john has also determined six criteria weightins: trust, with a weight of 0.3; quality, with 0.2; religious, with 0.1; individualism, with 0.2; time, with 0.1; and uncertainity, with 0.1. using the factor-rating method, which country should ranga select? why? (2 points)

What does code do? a creates a text box that says "solid black" b creates a black border of any width c creates a black border 1 pixel wide