from South Africa and Egypt‚ this paper addresses three different lacunae in the literature. First‚ the paper has brought into focus a comparison between two emerging markets that have very different political and economic legacies‚ institutions and business environment. The results are consistent with the prior that the determinants of the choice of entry mode would be different for these two countries. Second‚ it has distinguished between the manufacturing and services sectors during the empirical
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DHL International: An Ambitious Competitor in Global Logistics Services When Adrian Dalsey‚ Larry Hillbolm‚ and Robert Lynn founded DHL as a door-to-door express service between San Francisco and Honolulu in 1969‚ no one could have imagined the business evolving into a crossborder express delivery group linking 120‚000 destinations in more than 220 countries and territories. Now owned by the German company Deutsche Post World Net‚ DHL offers express services‚ international air and
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Culture and International Business: An Exploratory Review of the Empirical Research in JIBS and MIR from 1992 to 2002 Daniel W. Baack Boeing Institute of International Business Saint Louis University 458 Davis-Shaughnessy Hall 3674 Lindell Boulevard Saint Louis‚ MO 63108 314-977-3810 baackdw@slu.edu Donald Baack Pittsburg State University 1701 South Broadway Pittsburg‚ Kansas 66762 620-235-4583 debaack@pittstate.edu ABSTRACT The study of culture is an important component of international
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International Business Management Introduction Nowdays the world is like a globalised stage where the barriers to cross-border and investment have been broke down‚ the national economies are merging into an interdependent global economy system. Therefore‚ international business has become a very important role in the world economy. According to P. K. Sinha and S. Sinha (2008)‚ international business is all commercial transactions- private and governmental- between two or more countries which including
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School of Business‚ Indiana University. For reprints‚ call HBS Publishing at (800) 545-7685. BH 471 Business Horizons (2012) 55‚ 189—200 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com www.elsevier.com/locate/bushor International business complexity and the internationalization of languages W. Travis Selmier IIa‚1‚*‚ Chang Hoon Oh b‚1 a School of Political Science‚ Indiana University‚ 210 Woodburn Hall‚ 1100 E. Seventh Street‚ Bloomington‚ IN 47405-7110‚ U.S.A. b School of Business‚ Brock
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his “creative thinking”‚ but I am very sorry to say this kind of “creative thinking” is called “YY” in China. 2. Did the Reward Program motivate retailers to sell more CEMEX products? I’m afraid not. Here we have to define what the real motivation is? Yes‚ making money. Where is the money come from? Yes‚ the end-users. If CEMEX can de-commoditizing the product and crate really value for the end-users‚ its products will become money making products which can bring long-term cash for the retailers
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International Business Essay Exam #2 In what kind of industries does a localization strategy make sense? When does a global standardization strategy make most sense? The industry that localization strategy would make sense would be the automotive industry‚ manufacturing factories‚ and I want to stay the big chain grocery stores. By these firms customizing the products they offer to local demand‚ the firm increases the value of that product in the local market. But on the downside‚ it involves
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The Region in International Business Content Introduction 2 1 Regional Economic Integration Status Quo of China 2 2 Political Factors behind Regional Economic Integration Arrangements 3 3 Effects of Regional Economic Integration Arrangements on Economic Growth 5 4 Challenges to the Regional Economic Integration Arrangements of China 9 Conclusion 11 Introduction Economic integration is established to remove the trade barriers among members‚ and to build various kinds of cooperation and
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protect businesses and workers within a country by restricting or regulating trade with foreign nations.i This is what Wikipedia gives us and I am going to tell it by my own words so the Protectionism is economic patronage of the state‚ which manifests itself in the enclosure of the domestic market of the country from the penetration of foreign products in it‚ and to promote the competitiveness of export goods in foreign markets. We can say that protectionism is anti-globalization act but we promote our
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INTRODUCTION Foreign direct investment (FDI) is known as the important tool in the development and modernization in economies. The Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) acknowledge foreign direct investment (FDI) give a huge impact to their economies in terms of development and modernization. Foreign direct investment means that the investment is direct because the investor‚ which could be a foreign person or company that have effort to control and manage or have significant influence over
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