International Business

International Business Q1.Select an MNC and an Indian firm. Compare and contrast the strategies they formulate, they implement and the successes or failures they have come across. Q2. Select one MNC and one domestic firm. Study their organization structures. What similarities and dissimilarities do you notice between the two? Q3.Place yourself as the financial officer of a company based in Delhi. Your company wants to set up operations in Dubai but lacks adequate finance to do so. You have several options before you for raising the necessary finance. List the advantages and disadvantages of each option and suggest which options you finally choose.

Q4.Study the export procedure followed in old economy firms and compare the procedure with the one followed in software firms in BPO industry. Q5.If you are asked to go on a foreign assignment and are given options of different countries, which country do you prefer and why? Q6.Study why SAARC countries have not been able to make any progress towards economic integration. Q7.Identity at least five Indian companies which are supposed to be ethical in their deals. Collect their balance sheets for a period of ten years. Study their profitability over the decade. See whether the statement that “most successful companies are also ethical firms” is true or false.

Q8.Select a neighboring country and study what type of political and legal environments exist there. Study also the impact of these environmental factors on business in that country.