1. Discuss IKEA’s country-specific advantages and its firm-specific advantages. IKEA experiences many country-specific advantages. First‚ IKEA’s location in Europe made it relatively painless for the company to spread throughout the rest of Europe. Along similar lines‚ IKEA has been able to send employees who know the local language of foreign locations to set up stores‚ bringing the IKEA philosophy and standard practices along with them. IKEA also embraced its advantage of its heritage‚ focusing
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[pic] Introduction Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. In principle‚ global warming is neutral as to the period or causes‚ but in both common and scientific usage the term generally refers to recent warming and implies a human influence. Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic
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Transfer Pricing in Developing Countries An Introduction Topics 1. Abstract 2. International tax law & its sources 3. Brief history of International Tax Law 4. Who gets the pie? 5. Arm ’s length principle : Cornerstone of International Tax Law 6. Transfer pricing methods 7. Problems with of source taxation of MNE ’s 8. Internet & e-commerce : Achilles heel of current International taxation regime? 9. Formulary Apportionment (FA) 10. Existing uses of Formulary Apportionment systems in the world
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u09d1 The Internet’s Effect on Marketing-communication Strategies The Internet is rapidly overtaking traditional communications media as the primary‚ if not sole‚ source of information for the cohorts in Generation X and Generation Y. What are the implications for marketing-communications strategies if these trends continue? Owen notes that very little scholarly literature or research is available on this topic‚ partially because it is so new. The existing models concepts and theories in the
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Describe the strategies that have been suggested to reduce global warming. To what extent do you think they are successful? Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. Since the early 20th century‚ Earth’s mean surface temperature has increased by about 0.8 °C. It is primarily caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane produced by human activities such
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Assignment Regional Strategies for Global Leadership The author also speaks about the five strategies which are used by successful companies with their global strategies or instead of their global strategies. These strategies are home base‚ portfolio‚ hub‚ platform‚ and mandate. These strategies are listed in increasing number of complexity and some companies apply them in sequence but the swiftest switch from one to another and combine approaches as their markets and businesses develop.
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1.What is the company’s strategy with regard to business development in emerging markets? Does this strategy make sense? From the NESTLE : GLOBAL STRATEGY case‚ it can be seen that Nestle generally operates worldwide with the strategy of customization rather than globalization. It moves into consumer markets by using Niche market strategy to become the market leader in each of the niches. It mainly focuses on European markets‚ which make up 70 percent of its sales. As mentioned‚ these markets are
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MANAGING TRANSFER PRICING Sarbanes-Oxley requires a company to establish that it has internal controls to ensure accurate financial reporting and that the auditor attest to the assessment of those controls. An obvious concern for all multinationals after SOX is whether there are effective controls in place to deal with transfer pricing exposure. An increasingly important element of transfer pricing documentation relates to the influence of legislation‚ ethical standards‚ and associated matters
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PRICING METHODOLOGY Pricing methods adopted by an organization determines the values attached to its products. Pricing determinant can be Internal or External. An Internal pricing determinant is one that is controlled by the marketer while the external is not controllable by the marketer. We shall be considering the following types of pricing models: PRICE DISCRIMINATION: Price discrimination is the practice of setting a different price for the same product in different segments to the market.
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Introduction Global marketing refers to marketing activities coordinated and integrated across multiple country markets. The concept of this involves the creation of a single or standardized strategy for a product‚ service or a company (Johansson‚ 2006). Those markets are not only defined within country boarders‚ but are also defined by buyer preferences that are similar across countries. Recently‚ going global becomes a trend. As Crespy (1986) indicated‚ firms should turn themselves into global corporations
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