30% 40% 07-Sep-14 7 What is International Business? Any business transaction between entities from more than one country to serve their purposes. Main Purposes for International Business: Expand the market and increase sales Exploit foreign resources Disperse risks PTM – Introduction to International Business 07-Sep-14 8 International Business Activities International Trade: Exports and Imports Trade in goods (tangible products) = merchandise exports & imports = visible
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Country Background A 180 km wide on average‚ Chile is 4‚300km long from the border with Peru on the north to the Strait of Magellan on the South. Sheltered by the Andes on the East and the Pacific Ocean on the west‚ Chile is all but impervious to foreign pets and disease. The north is rich in mining and marine resources. Central Chile‚ home to the nation’s capital‚ is a major agricultural and industrial hub. In the south‚ rich fisheries and forest resources are managed under stringent conservation
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pharmaceutical products‚ ready access to import of raw material and capital goods and so on. It has created an environment conducive to an enterprise‚ investment and innovation. Indian industries have started to attract foreign portfolio investment and equity participation in new ventures. The government is committed to make foreign players feet at ease to invest directly and bring with it new technology and marketing skills. There has been impressive growth in FDI inflows to India
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Time) Lecturer: Ms Alice Lee Student name: Lam Hon Yan Student No.: 06028486 Group: 3 Hand in date: 12 Jan 2007 Word count: 2588 Content 1. Introduction P.1 2. Motivations of using FDI as cross border investment P.2 3. FDI impact on nation states P.6 3.1 Advantage of FDI to host country P.6 3.2 Disadvantage of FDI to host country P.9 3.3 Advantage & Disadvantage of FDI to home country P.10 4. Root causes of financial crisis
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ASSIGNMENT/ASSESSMENT ITEM COVER SHEET Student Name: FIRST NAME Family / last NAME Student Number: Email: ruibin.zhang@uon.edu.au Course Code Course Title (Example) (Example)
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International Business CHAPTER 1 Globalization: Refers to the trend towards a more integrated global economic system (Drivers of globalization: declining trade & investment barriers‚ technological change) Globalization of markets: the merging of historically distinct and separate national markets into one huge global marketplace. (Taste and preference of consumers in different nations are the same everywhere like; Coca-Cola‚ Starbucks‚ McDonalds‚ Playstation‚ IKEA-furniture) Globalization
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Sample Midterm #1 Questions 1. Which of the following does not constitute a form of direct foreign investment? a. Franchising b. International trade c. Joint ventures d. Acquisitions of existing operations e. Establishment of new foreign subsidiaries 2. Which of the following theories identifies specialization as a reason for international business? a. theory of comparative advantage. b. imperfect markets theory. c. product cycle theory. d. none of the above 3. Agency costs faced by multinational
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“levies”. Foreign Direct Investments are showing a negative trend. And all of this is happening while the High Office of Oversight and Anti-Corruption is trying to reverse recent history. Table of Contents Abstract 2 Table of Contents 3 Introduction 4 Types of Corruption in Afghanistan 4 Perception of Corruption 6 Education and Corruption 8 Afghan National Security Forces and Corruption 9 Foreign Direct Investment 10 Anti-Corruption
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Difference In International Business Versus Domestic Business The impact of China’s new membership in the World Trade Organization is much debated‚ but most agree that inflows of foreign direct investment will pick up. Foreign firms will have unprecedented access to geographic regions and economics sectors but must contend with China’s general lack of codified laws‚ the regional diversity of "legal systems" and practices‚ and the absence of case precedents. A literature survey and in-depth interviews
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This is possible because those deposits are financially repressed — savers receive negative returns because of interest rates below the inflation rate and strict capital controls that prevent savers from investing their money in more profitable investments abroad. Consequently‚ the Chinese government now controls oiland gas pipelines from Turkmenistan to China and from South Sudan to the Red Sea. Another pipeline‚ from the Indian Ocean to the Chinese city of Kunming‚ running through Myanmar‚ is scheduled
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