1 2 3 4 5 6 Global Business Today 6e by Charles W.L. Hill Chapter 1 Globalization Introduction In the world economy today‚ we see • fewer self-contained national economies with high barriers to cross-border trade and investment • a more integrated global economic system with lower barriers to trade and investment • about $4 trillion in foreign exchange transactions taking place everyday • (in 2012)
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INTRODUCTION OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS International business deals with business activities which is both production and services that cross the national boundaries. This activity includes movement of goods‚ services capital or personnel‚ transfer of technology‚ etc. Functionally‚ by business we mean those human activities‚ which involve production or purchase of goods and services with the object of selling them at a profit. Today’s world is an era of Global Village or specialization. A particular
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1. Background of HCF HCF was established in year 1974. It started as a family-owned business and grew into a public listed company in early 2007. HCF is a contract manufacturer in clothing. It provides high quality clothes for mainly European and American fashion houses. HCF is not producing its own label. The clothes manufactured by HCF are all under clients’ own labels. To support its production‚ HCF owns three factories which are located at Butterworth‚ Jitra and Chieng Mai. The first factory
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The Chinese government originally pegged the value of the yuan against the U.S. dollar in an attempt to compete with the U.S. and the rest of the world. Because China is an export driven economy‚ the government thought exports would be less expensive with the pegged value of the yuan. This is a possible benefit of pegging the value of the yuan against the U.S. dollar or any other foreign currency. Therefore‚ the pegged exchange rate undervalued the yuan by as much as 40%. This fueled a boom in Chinese
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members pledge to report known violations of the GEA Honor Code. Signature _________________________ Garuda Education Academy MARKS: 80 SUB: N.B.: 1) 2) INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Attempt any Four cases All cases carry equal marks. NO. 1 International Case : Woman CEO Manages by the Textbook The demand for managers with an international background is great. Consider Marisa Bellisario who was one of the most sought-after executives in Europe. She was the first woman to head a major industrial firm
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Ofcourse there is a change in bargaining power between both parties. Danone has the bigger bargaining power because Danone holds 51% of the joint venture’s shares. However‚ progressively Wahaha Group has become stronger in bargaining power due to the strategy that Wahaha Group applied. Wahaha Group dispute the contract‚ uses the joint venture to its non joint venture market and make the non joint venture market growth rapidly and finally its become as a competitor for Danone. 3. Did the long-term
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because of their great social and economic power. Business is governed by an implicit social contract that requires it to operate in ways that benefit society. In particular‚ corporations must take responsibility for the unintended side effects of their business transactions (externalities) and weigh the full social costs of their activities. * In recent years‚ we have grown more aware of the possible deleterious side effects of business activity‚ something economists refer to as…
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1. Objective The Objective of this assignment is to distinguish the importance of political and economic risks in International Business faced by Malaysian Manufacturing firm which exporting to an ASEAN country. I had chosen Hard disk drive manufacturing firm in this study and the ASEAN country for us to export is Thailand. 2. Introduction of ASEAN country ASEAN(Association of Southeast Asian Nations)‚ was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok‚ Thailand‚ with the signing of the ASEAN
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1. What are strengths and weakness of Malaysian Tourism industry.(10M) Strengths Weakness Multi culture Communication Outstanding nature World Heritage Landing The attitude of the people Transportation Hygiene New rival country Strengths Multi-culture is one of the biggest strengths that Malaysian Tourism has because we have 3 main different cultures living together which is Malays‚ Chinese and Indian. Besides that‚ we also have other culture in Sabah and Sarawak which is Iban‚ Kadanzan
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foreign market entry mode. Describe scenarios when licensing might be the preferable one of the two entry modes. 9. International franchising is often regarded as a low-risk foreign market entry strategy. Does this view fully reflect the attraction of international franchising as a market entry mode? 10. Under what circumstances would a BOT system make sense as an international marketing
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