DOING BUSINESS IN PAKISTAN UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2007 PREFACE In the preparation of this booklet we have tried to cover the principal aspects that regulate businesses in Pakistan, using, for this purpose, a language accessible to potential investors and business managers. We are aware that it is not easy to synthesize in a booklet of this nature all the legal, accounting, auditing, tax and labour rules/requirements that regulate businesses in Pakistan. However, if we have
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Introduction 1 2. Cultural Dimensions of Pakistan 2 2.1 Hofstede’s Study 2 2.2 Trompenaar’s Dimensions 5 2.3 GLOBE Study 6 3. Communicating Cross Culturally 7 3.1 Proper Greetings 7 3.2 Introductions 7 3.3 Touch Behaviour 8 3.4 Taboos 9 3.5 Entertaining 9 4. Management Issues in Pakistan 9 4.1 Leading 9 4.2 Motivation 12 5. Negotiating in Pakistan 13 6. Expatriates in Pakistan 15 7. Managing Social and Ethical Issues in Pakistan 18 7.1 Conflict of Development 18
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Question 1: Answer: SMEs (Small & Medium Enterprises) are those business enterprises which run their business in small and medium level. Small and medium business has no single definition but have some standards on the basis of which we can say they are small and medium enterprises. Different institutions has given different definitions but in Pakistan SMEDA (small Medium enterprises development authority) has defined SMEs as “the enterprises can be small and medium which has up to 250 employees
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marketing plan for launching Sephora in Pakistan. The background gives a brief insight of the company, the product and the foreign market chosen. The environmental analysis, to justify the foreign country, offers perspective across the Economic and Financial, Cultural, Political and Legal (PESTLE) elements that will affect the organization. A SWOT analysis has also been conducted to better exhibit the more holistic overall implications of Sephora investing in Pakistan. The “limitations” of this report
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invest in areas of stability so as to ensure a reasonable return on capital. If the situation is unstable, employers shed jobs. And so it goes on. Global instability makes it difficult for companies that are not doing well to capture their market shares. The success of the Business Continuity Program when it comes to planning to counter political instability largely depends upon Stability of Government, Type of Government, Economic and trade policy of Government, Diplomatic events in surrounding
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Global vs. International Business We are trying to expand our bicycle business to three new countries. Right now we are domestic in the United States, but we hope that will change in the vast future. We are first faced with the question of whether we are global or international. Obviously the goal for the bicycle company is to be global since we would expand our company in having a physical site overseas. In order to have a physical presence in other countries we may have to buy out a local, favored
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Country Evaluation: India Describe the country of investment. Include the following: Economic structure, indicators and risk Throughout India the economic structure differs greatly from state to state. India is known for having one of the fasting growing economies in the world. This has a lot to do with the huge population in India. Capital, labor, and productivity growth have been the main contributors to the economic growth in the country. In recent years the Indian government has
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Legal Factors As far as the Lever Brothers Pakistan Limited concerns according to them that political instability have do affect but not particularly Lever Brothers Pakistan Limited same as it affects any other organization around and specially they are in consumer products business which never make them out of business. In case of legal factors, any trade policy or import duties is not affecting particularly Lever Brothers Pakistan Limited. In Pakistan right now following liberalization policy
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| Hussain Industries: Hussain industries is known to be one of the largest textile manufacturers in Pakistan. It is located in the hub of textile industries in Pakistan, the city of Multan, which is also famously known as the largest cotton growing city. This company is a partnership and is currently equally being shared between two parties. Hussain industries has been manufacturing articles with intense colour tones which include the following: Articles with intense color tones, including
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forth holding such as project. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Purpose of this project is to study the strategies which Pepsi is doing in Pakistani market for its product Pepsi cola. Pepsi International is a world renowned brand. It is a very well organized multinational company, which operates almost all over the world. In Pakistan It also has proved itself to be the No.1 soft drink. Now days Pepsi is recognized as Pakistanis National drink Pepsi's greatest rival is Coca Cola
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