International Business Lecture Notes Collin Starkweather1 September 2012 1 Copyright c Collin Starkweather 2012. All rights reserved. 2 Contents 1 International Business Culture and Practices 1.1 Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 The Determinants of Culture . . . . . . . . 1.2.1 Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions . . . 1.2.2 Trompenaars’s Cultural Dimensions 1.2.3 Country Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Social Stratification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Cultural
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the Join Venture with Wahaha Group. As the foreign companies‚ Danone has lack of management depth and size to grow quickly in China. However‚ Danone believes that with local firm support (Wahaha Group is well known as fast growing company at food market in China) will help Danone to grow the sales quickly. 2. How did the relationship between Wahaha Group and Danone change during the 11 years of cooperation? How did the bargaining power of both parties change? Because the dispute between Wahaha
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RW in the absence of international trade? Also give the opportunity costs of a ton of apples in both countries. Which product will the EU be exporting? b. Draw the production possibility frontier for the EU. c. What is the relative price of a bike in the EU in the absence of international trade? d. Now assume that in case of free international trade‚ the world relative price of bikes is 2. Use the equilibrium price to demonstrate that the EU will benefit from international trade. Exercise
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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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all key management positions in an international business with parent-country nationals” (p. 531). The advantages of the ethnocentric approach are: Overcomes lack of qualified managers in host country‚ unified culture‚ and helps transfer core competencies. The disadvantages of the ethnocentric approach are: Produces resentment in host country‚ and can lead to cultural myopia. An ethnocentric approach is typically appropriate for firms utilizing an international strategy. A polycentric staffing
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BlackBerry in International Markets: Balancing Business Interests and Host Nations’ Security Concerns TARGET: * To understand the various issues and challenges facing a company in international markets. * To understand the controversy regarding BlackBerry usage and also why this controversy is more prominent in Asia and the Middle East. * To analyze the remedial measures available to RIM in addressing the national security concerns and its business interests effectively. * To understand
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INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS 1. INTRODUCTION This section begins the study of the international financial system by exploring the structure of the international financial markets. The two interrelated systems that comprise the international financial markets are the international capital market and the foreign exchange market. 2. INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKET A capital market is a system that allocates financial resources in the form of debt and equity according to their most
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FINC/ECON 3240 - International Finance Homework Solution Chapter 1 2. Comparative Advantage. a. Explain how the theory of comparative advantage relates to the need for international business. ANSWER: The theory of comparative advantage implies that countries should specialize in production‚ thereby relying on other countries for some products. Consequently‚ there is a need for international business. b. Explain how the product cycle theory relates to the growth of an
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Comparison of penetration testing tools for web applications Frank van der Loo Supervisor: Erik Poll Research number: 653 Student number: 0314005 August 15‚ 2011 Executive summary Testing the security of web applications with automated penetration testing tools produces relatively quick and easy results. However there are a lot of such tools‚ both commercial and free. In this thesis a selection of such tools are tested against a number of dierent test cases to compare the tools
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Innovation Index Between the G20 Versus the Next 11 Countries Dutta‚ S. and Lanvin‚ B. (2013). The Global Innovation Index 2013: The Local Dynamics of Innovation‚ Geneva‚ Ithaca‚ and Fontainebleau. Frantzen‚ D. (2000). “R&D‚ Human Capital and International Technology Spillovers: A Cross Country Analysis‚” Scandinavian Journal of Economics‚ Vol Hamel‚ G. and Prahalad‚ C.K. (2006). The core competence of the corporation strategic learning in a knowledge economy. (In Hahn‚ D. & Taylor‚ B.‚ eds. Strategische
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