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introduction global business

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3. Demonstrate the basic steps involved in financing exporting.
2. Explain the different steps companies can take to improve their export performance including the information sources and municipal, provincial, and federal government programs that exist to
1. Summarize the opportunities and risks associated with exporting.
5. What are the benefits to JCB of localizing significant production in India? What are the disadvantages? Do the benefits outweigh the disadvantages?
4. What were the risks associated with the joint venture strategy? How did JCB deal with these risks?
3. In India, JCB decided to enter via a joint venture. What was the articulated rationale for this? In what other ways might the joint venture strategy have benefited JCB?
2. Historically, JCB entered foreign markets through exports. Why do you think JCB generally favoured exports?
1. Why do you think that India was an attractive market for JCB?
5. A small Canadian firm that has developed some valuable new medical products using its unique biotechnology know-how is trying to decide how best to serve the European Community market. Its choices
3. What kinds of companies stand to gain the most from entering into strategic alliances with potential competitors? Why?
2. “Licensing proprietary technology to foreign competitors is the best way to give up a firm’s competitive advantage.” Evaluate this statement.
1. Review the opening case. Summarize Starbucks’ core strategy. Does this strategy make sense? Why?
2. Review the list of past trade missions and suggest countries and economic sectors that would benefit from a future trade mission. Give reasons for your selections.
1. In an era of global electronic communications, is there still a need for face-to-face meetings that occur through trade missions? Why or why not?
2. The company is very sensitive to the price of its key raw material: cotton. Are there any steps it could take to reduce its risk (see Chapter 9)?
1. What are the benefits of having a global supply chain such as Gildan’s? What are the risks?
4. Recognize the pros and cons of acquisitions versus greenfield ventures as an entry strategy.
3. Identify the factors that influence a firm’s choice of entry mode.
2. Compare and contrast the different modes that firms use to enter foreign markets.
1. Explain the three basic decisions that firms contemplating foreign expansion must make: which markets to enter, when to enter those markets, and on what scale.
3. Does the One Ford initiative imply that Ford will now ignore national and regional differences in demand?
2. What strategy is Mulally trying to get Ford to pursue with his One Ford initiative? What are the benefits of this strategy? Can you see any drawbacks?
4. What do you see as the main organizational problems likely to be associated with implementation of a transnational strategy?
3. Discuss how the need for control over foreign operations varies with the strategy and core competencies of a firm. What are the implications of this for the choice of entry mode?
2. Are the following industries global industries or multidomestic industries: bulk chemicals, pharmaceuticals, branded food products, moviemaking, television manufacturing, personal computers,
1. “In a world of zero transportation costs, no trade barriers, and trivial differences between nations with regard to factor conditions, firms must expand internationally if they are to
2. Which do you think is a better strategy for governments: a company focused strategy or an economic sector strategy? Defend your argument.
1. Should government continue to subsidize certain firms? If so, what criteria should they use(job creation, importance to the economy, other factors)?
2. Do you think that the creation of its own yogurt brand helped or hurt future negotiations with General Mills?
1. Is it always possible for a company to create a new product if it is not happy with a licensing or other type of agreement with a global partner?
5. Explain the pros and cons of using strategic alliances to support global strategies.
4. Identify the different strategies for competing globally and their pros and cons.
3. Understand how pressures for cost reductions and pressures for local responsiveness influence strategic choice.
2. Recognize how firms can profit by expanding globally.
1. Explain the concept of strategy.
3. What do you think the economic consequences were once Malawi’s currency was devalued? Does your research verify your answer?
2. Why did Mutharika resist IMF calls for currency devaluation? If he had lived and remained in power, what do you think would have happened to the economy of Malawi assuming that he did not change
1. What were the causes of Malawi’s currency troubles?
1. Latvia has been a member state of the European Union (EU) since 2004. This means that the country adheres to the European System of Accounts 1995 (ESA95)—a classification system that ensures the
6. Do you notice any shifts in geographic regions of retail gold buying since 2013?
5. Imagine that Canada, the United States, and Mexico decide to adopt a fixed exchange rate system similar to the ERM of the European Monetary System. What would be the likely consequences of such a
4. Debate the relative merits of fixed and floating exchange rate regimes. From the perspective of an international business, what are the most important criteria in a choice between the systems?
2. What type of company is Goldmoney or what type of company could it become? Currently in Canada it is regulated as a Dealer in Precious Metals. But could it become a bank? A money transfer service
1. How can Goldmoney continue to grow in the future? Are there other products they could offer?
2. The worldwide economic slowdown has affected real estate prices and projects in oil-producing countries. Give some examples of projects that were started, or planned, in the peak economic times
1. Should producing countries attempt to diversify their oil-based economies? How could they do this? What economic sectors could they focus on?
6. Explain the implications of the global monetary system for currency management and business strategy.
5. Understand the debate surrounding the role of the IMF in the management of financial crises.
4. Identify exchange rate regimes used in the world today and why countries adopt different exchange rate regions.
3. Compare and contrast the differences between a fixed and a floating exchange rate system.
2. Explain the role played by the World Bank and the IMF in the international monetary system.
1. Describe the historical development of the modern global monetary system.
6. What does this case teach you about the way foreign exchange markets work?
5. Who in Japan benefits from devaluation of the yen? Who does this hurt in Japan?
4. Do you think the Japanese government was engaging in currency manipulation? If so, what should other nations do about it at the time?
3. Why did the policy of the Abe government to purchase government securities help to drive down the value of the yen? What was the mechanism at work here?
2. What drove an increase in the value of the yen between 2008 and 2011?
1. Why did the yen carry trade work during the early 2000s? Why did it stop working after 2008?
2. Two countries, Canada and the United States, produce just one good: beef. Suppose the price of beef in the United States is $3 per kilogram and in Canada it is $4 per kilogram.a. According to the
1. The interest rate on one-year Canadian government securities is 6 percent and expected inflation rate for the coming year is 2 percent. The U.S. one-year government security instrument interest
2. Canada, along with many other countries, has also followed the U.S. lead and undertaken its own program of quantitative easing. How is this different from what is described above?
1. Look at current online and printed newspapers and magazines to see what economists and analysts are saying about quantitative easing. When do they forecast this to end?
2. Hedging programs are not free (it is estimated that it cost Barrick over $5.6 billion to exit its hedges). When do you think a company should enter a currency or other commodity hedging program?
1. Undertaking a hedging program is a management decision. Are company managers likely to undertake a program (such as hedging) once they have so publicly announced that they are scrapping it, even
5. Compare and contrast the differences among translation, transaction, and economic exposure, and what managers can do to manage each type of exposure.
4. Identify the merits of different approaches toward exchange rate forecasting and understand the issues surrounding currency convertibility.
3. Understand the different theories explaining how currency exchange rates are determined and their relative merits.
2. Understand the nature of the foreign exchange market.
1. Describe the functions of the foreign exchange market.
4. If you were running the English Premier League, what would your strategy be on broadcast rights going forward?
3. Who benefits from the EU ruling? Who will be the losers?
2. Do you think the European Court of Justice was right to rule that the league could not stop people from buying Premier League soccer feeds from other countries? Explain your reasoning?
1. Why do you think the English Premier League has historically charged different prices for broadcasting rights in different European markets?
6. Would establishment of the TPP be good for the two most advanced economies in the hemisphere, the United States and Canada? How might the establishment of the TPP impact the strategy of North
5. Do you see Mercosur expanding beyond its current four countries? Why or why not?
4. How should a firm with self-sufficient production facilities in several EU countries respond to the creation of a single market? What are the constraints on its ability to respond in a manner that
3. What effect did creating a single market and a single currency within the European Union have on competition within the European Union? Why?
2. What are the economic and political arguments for regional economic integration? Given these arguments, why don’t we see more integration in the world economy?
1. “NAFTA is likely to continue to produce net benefits for the Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. economies.”Evaluate this statement.
5. The creation of single markets in the EU and North America means that many markets that were formerly protected from foreign competition are now more open. This creates major investment and export
4. The Single European Act sought to create a true single market by abolishing administrative barriers to the free flow of trade and investment among EU countries. Eighteen EU members now use a
3. The argument against regional integration suggests it will not increase economic welfare if the trade creation effects in the free trade area are outweighed by the trade diversion effects.
2. The argument for regional economic integration states it is an attempt to achieve economic gains from the free flow of trade and investment between neighbouring countries. The argument recognizes
1. A number of levels of economic integration are possible in theory. In order of increasing integration, they include a free trade area, a customs union, a common market, an economic union, and full
2. Given Brexit, do you think that debt and/or currency crises are more likely in the euro zone in the future?
1. Are there other countries today (both within and outside of the EU) that have large debts?Could such a situation happen to them?
2. Outside of North America, what trade pacts would influence the company (see especially the section “The Future of the European Union”)?
1. Do you think that Baultar could have accessed the Mexican market without NAFTA? Why, or why not?
5. Understand the implications for business that are inherent in regional economic integration agreements
4. Explain the history, current scope, and future prospects of the world’s most important regional economic agreements.
3. Understand the economic and political arguments against regional economic integration.
2. Understand the economic and political arguments for regional economic integration.
1. Describe the different levels of regional economic integration.
4. Why do you think reform of FDI regulations in India has been so difficult?
3. Who stands to lose as a result of foreign entry into the Indian retail sector?
2. What are the potential benefits to India of entry by foreign retail establishments?
1. Why do you think that the Indian retail sector is so fragmented?
5. Explain how the politics of a host government might influence the process of negotiating access between the host government and a foreign MNE.
4. You are the international manager of a Canadian business that has just developed a revolutionary new software application that can perform the same functions as a Microsoft application but costs
3. Read the opening case on Nigeria. What are the benefits to the country of FDI?

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