A business firm's interaction with the environment is a characteristic of an open system true or false

True

Explanation:

An organization that works as an open system interacts with its environment in order to grow and continuously renew itself. This type of organization continuously receives inflows and feedback from the environment, while producing outflows into the environment.

In order for an organization to survive in the long-run, it must continuously adapt, change and grow just as any living organism. This approach is basically the standard approach used by almost all modern organizations.

the assumption the narrator makes in this excerpt is that the messages he heards were going to hurt the narrator's mom; the narrator just springs in to action. the narrator doesn't specify in this excerpt why he believes that the messages present a problem that requires protection.