International Business: The New Realities‚ 2e (Cavusgil/Knight/Riesenberger) Chapter 1 Introduction: What Is International Business? 1) International business is primarily carried out by individual companies. Answer: TRUE Diff: 1 Page Ref: 4 Skill: Concept Objective: 1-1 AACSB: Dynamics of the global economy 2) The globalization of markets refers to the growing independence and self-sufficiency of countries worldwide. Answer: FALSE Diff: 2 Page Ref: 4 Skill: Concept Objective:
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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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Question 1: Briefly describe some of the differences between the legal environment of a country that embraces common law and one that observes civil law? Answer: Countries that embrace common law system are typically those that were former British colonies or protectorates‚ including the United States‚ Australia‚ Singapore‚ Pakistan‚ India and Ghana. Common law is the legal tradition‚ which evolved in England from the 11th Century onwards. In common law there is not always a written constitution
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CHAPTER 1 AN OVERVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Chapter Objectives 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Discuss the meaning of international business Explain the importance of understanding international business Identify and describe the basic forms of international business activities Discuss the causes of globalization Comprehend the growing role of emerging markets in the global economy 1-2 What Is International Business? Business transactions between parties from more than one country
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Contents 1. Introduction to Osim International 4 2. Competitive Strategy 4 3. Company value chain 4 3.1 Innovation 5 3.2 Operations Management 5 4. Non-financial analysis 5 4.1 Corporate Social Responsibility 5 4.2 Consumer Sentiments 6 4.3 Corporate Culture 6 4.4 Customer Retention and Growth 6 5. Global outlook 7 6. Industry outlook of healthy lifestyle products 7 7. Comparison between Osim and its competitors 8 8. Osim Financials 8 8.1 Company’s Financial Ratios 8 8.2 Market
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Describe the four basic levels of international business activity.Do you think any organization will achieve the fourth level?Why or why not. Question No 2: For each of the four globalization strategies‚ describe the risks associated with that strategy and the potential returns from that strategy. __________________________________ Answer for question No 1: The four general levels of international business activity are: 1. Domestic business 2. International business 3. Multinational business
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Chapter 7&8 – International Market selection and Entry Approaches to market selection ← incremental entry vs simultaneous entries ◦ incremental → usually for small companies with fewer resources that wants to lower their risk preclude economies of scale. ◦ simultaneous → extensive resource thus‚ resulting in higher operating risk‚ may decide to leverage across asia pacific area‚ facilitate economies of scale. ← Concentrated approach vs diversified approach ◦ concentrated
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environment to sell the finished goods. Naturally‚ the dependence of business on the economic environment is total and is not surprising because‚ as it is rightly said‚ business is one unit of the total economy. Economic environment influences the business to a great extent. It refers to all those economic factors which affect the functioning of a business unit. Dependence of business on economic environment is total — i.e. for input and also to sell the finished goods. Trained economists supplying
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Realism is an international relations theory which states that world politics is driven by competitive self-interest.[1] ------------------------------------------------- Common assumptions[edit source | editbeta] Realism is a tradition of international theory centered upon four propositions.[2] 1. The international system is anarchic * There is no actor above states capable of regulating their interactions; states must arrive at relations with other states on their own‚ rather than it being
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aggregate demand (AD) in the economy. AD consists of factors‚ which are consumer spending + government spending + investments + exports – imports [C+I+G+(X-M)]‚ and anything that affects these factors will affect demand. Demand side policies consists of monetary policies which focuses on changing interest rates and money supply and fiscal policies which focuses on changing taxation and govt. spending) 2.0 Malaysia’s economy (2010 – 2012) The economic situation is still resilient since the 2008 recession
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