1.Whoare the key participants in international business?

2.How would you define a multinational enterprise?

3.How is international business affecting your life and career prospects?

4.Describe the key historical phases of globalization, including the most recent one.

5.Why do nations, industries and firms trade?

6.What are the key factors outlined in Porter's diamond model? Explain how they differ.

7.Pleasebrieflysummarize the three key alternative theories of foreign direct investment.

8.Explain the difference betweenGreenfieldsand mergers and acquisitions and give examples.

9.Briefly explain the difference between firm-specific and country-specific advantages.

10.What are the key activities that constitute the value chain? How international are they?

11.What is the liability of foreignness and how does it relate to international business?

12.Summarize the main non-tariff barriers that international businesses may face abroad.

13.What are the reasons for and against tax incentives/holidays for large foreign investors?

14.Please name and briefly describe the most important global institutions.

15.What does the BRICS acronym stand for? Which other large emerging economies do you know?

16.What is the difference between a free trade agreement and regional economic integration?

17.What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Which are the member countries of this agreement?

18.What is the difference between devaluation and depreciation of a currency?

19.What are the main types of currency risk? Describe the three types of exposure.

20.Describe the main factors that affect the supply and demand for a currency.

21.Briefly describe the key types of players in the global monetary and financial systems.

22.Briefly describe the main foreign exchange systems countries use. Give examples.

23.What were the key causes of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009?

24.What are the key theoretical perspectives/views of global strategy?

25.How is global strategy different from international management?

26.How is global strategy different from strategy in a domestic market context?

27.What is semi-globalization? How is it related to the concept of regionalization?

28.What are global, bi-regional, host-region oriented and home-region orientedmultinationals?

29.Please explain the main differences between the different elements of the strategy tripod.

30.Please describe the four broad approaches to being international (Bartlett & Beamish 2015).

What are the main characteristics of a transnational organization?

31.Explain what equity and non-equity entry modes are and summarize their main types.

32.Describe each of the factors in Porter's Five Forces Model.

33.Summarize the four strategies of Porter's model of configuration and coordination.

34.WhatarePorter's three generic strategies and how are they related to global strategy?