East West University Case Study on East Meets West: Business Joint Ventures Prepared For: Prepared By: Naimur Rahman ID: Section: Date: * Why would a joint venture partner from a planned economy have difficulty understanding that the consumer is king or queen? Answer: Every economy has its own characteristics as both good and bad as well. In any economy‚ there are rules and regulations fortified in the manner to help the citizens and so that the businesses can get enough revenue
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Petroecuador (Ecuador) and Sinopec (China) Oil Joint Venture Petroecuador and Sinopec agreed to create a Joint Venture that was supposed to be a big opportunity for both‚ the Latin American and the Asian country. These two companies are different in many ways‚ especially in the size of their profitability and technology development. Sinopec International Petroleum belongs to Sinopec Corp.‚ which is one of the largest integrated energy and chemical companies in China. It business mainly covers
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multi-currency cash flows‚ currency risk and political risk being taken into account in our valuation model? 4. What is the relevant cost of capital for Jersey? For R.T. Nakit? Can they be different? Why? 5. What is the Dinar (Pound) value of the joint venture R.T. Nakit (jersey)? What are the project’s value drivers? 1- The data presented on exhibit 3.7 is‚ indeed following some of the assumptions stated on exhibit 3.1: minimum cash level is 10% of total assets‚ which was proved by dividing cash by
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chosen to diffuse in Gillette’s Chinese subsidiary. 1. Strategic IHRM of MNCs 1. Strategic IHRM HRM practices have a long history. Before the mid-1980s‚ most practices had focused on the low level‚ routine tasks such as recruiting‚ record-keeping‚ wages and rewards (Storey‚ 1992). Fombrun et al. (1984) pioneered the development of the concept of strategic HRM and started linking HRM functions with the organizational overall strategy. Strategic HRM mainly referred on activities involving HR planning
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STRATEGY AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT What is Strategy? A strategy is a long-term approach to implementing a firm ’s business plans to achieve its business objectives. It is also defined as the art and science of planning and marshalling resources for their most efficient and effective use. However‚ Johnson and Scholes (Exploring Corporate Strategy) define strategy as follows: "Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organization
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Strategic alliances: Strategic alliances is an agreement between two or more companies to work together for a certain time in order to achieve some business objectives‚ help each other reach new technologies or to be able to build core competencies against other competitors. The traditional view about Strategic alliances is that they were formed for: - Defensive to protect profits - Means for preempting competition - Competitive and win - lose orientation. While nowadays there is
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A typical strategic alliance formation process involves these steps: • Strategy Development: Strategy development involves studying the alliance’s feasibility‚ objectives and rationale‚ focusing on the major issues and challenges and development of resource strategies for production‚ technology‚ and people. It requires aligning alliance objectives with the overall corporate strategy. • Partner Assessment: Partner assessment involves analyzing a potential partner’s strengths and weaknesses‚ creating
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Why Businesses Enter Into Joint Ventures Intense competition has forced many firms to seek competitive advantage beyond their native boundaries. The economic achievement of China during the last two decades has been impressive. As a result‚ China has become the place where many Western companies are eager to gain competitive advantage through the exploitation of its abundant resources. Numerous international companies have been competing for business opportunities in China in the form of JV. As
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What aspects of strategy formulation do you think requires the most time? Why? "Strategy formulation includes developing a vision and mission‚ identifying an organization’s external opportunities and threats‚ determining internal strengths and weaknesses‚ establishing long-term objectives‚ generating alternative strategies‚ and choosing particular strategies to pursue. Strategy formulation issues include deciding what new businesses to enter‚ what businesses to abandon‚ how to allocate resources
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Identifying Woolworths‟ competitors 2. Analyse strategic groups 2.1 Characteristics for identifying strategic groups 3. Analysis of key competitors 3.1 Competitors‟ objectives and strategic thrusts 3.2 Competitors‟ strategies 3.3 Competitors‟ strengths and weaknesses 4. Forecasting likely response strategies 5. Conclusion References 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 2 1. Introduction It is common knowledge in business practices that a successful marketing strategy from an organisation‟s point of view includes
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