World Trade Around The World Entry 10pt 10 pt 10 pt 10pt 10 pt 20 pt Global Strategy Entry Modes Culture 10pt 10 pt 10 pt 10pt 10 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20pt 20pt 20 pt 30 pt 30 pt 30 pt 30 pt 30 pt 40 pt 40 pt 40pt 40 pt 40pt 50pt 50 pt 50 pt 50 pt 50 pt
NY Times columnist going back to the theory that the world is flat
Who is Thomas Friedman?
FDI
What is Foreign Direct Investment?
America’s top trading partner
Who is Canada?
Moving work to other countries
What is offshoring?
Act of contracting with an outside provider to produce goods and services
What is outsourcing?
Canada, USA, Mexico trade organization
What is NAFTA
Largest trading block in Europe
What is the European Union?
Name two Asian trading blocks
What are Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Association of SouthEast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?
BRIC Nations
What are Brazil, Russia, India, and China?
Central American effort at its own trading block
American Free Trade Agreement? What is CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement?
Strategy views the world as a single market. Operations are controlled centrally from the corporate office
What is a Global strategy?
This strategy has high pressure for global integration and high pressure for local responsiveness
What is Transnational strategy?
Describe the International strategy model
What is using existing core capabilities to expand into foreign markets, doesn’t compete on costs, and doesn’t need to adjust to local tastes?
Which strategy model is the most decentralized and responds to local tastes the most?
What is the Multinational model?
The two dimensions on Bartlett & Ghoshal’s 2x2 matrix describing global strategies for competition
What are pressures for “global integration” and “local responsiveness”?
Wholly Owned Subsidiary Exporting, Licensing, Franchising, Joint Venture, and Wholly Owned Subsidiary
international markets? What are 5 ways to enter international markets?
“Let’s get married in a business enterprise”
What is joint venture?
Sending stuff you make overseas
What is exporting?
This entry mode gives you the most control over keeping your secrets and technology from being stolen
What is wholly owned subsidiary?
Hilton Hotels, McDonalds restaurants Are examples of this entry mode.
What is franchising?
Foreign national brought in to work at the parent company
What is an inpatriate?
Expatriate
Where is Bhopal, India?
by your own group’s standards Tendency to judge others by your own group’s standards
What is ethnocentrism?
Geert Hofstede’s four cultural dimensions
What are power distance, Individualism/collectivism, Uncertainty avoidance, and Masculinity/femininity?
illegal for US companies to bribe foreign officials This US law makes it illegal for US companies to bribe foreign officials
Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) What is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) of 1977?