technological, competitive, and cultural factors that affect a firm’s strategies and operations within international and cross-cultural contexts. Integrative case studies are used to familiarize students with the challenging strategic decisions that global companies face as they work to ensure sustainable competitive advantage. Emphasis is placed on how the variable of culture interacts wth other national and international factors that affect managerial procesess and behaviors. This course also
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Whirlpool and the Global Appliance Industry Xavier’s Institute of Management By: Soham Pradhan - UEMF15027 Srijeet Mishra - UEMF15028 Sumeet Patnaik - UEMF15029 By: Soham Pradhan - UEMF15027 Srijeet Mishra - UEMF15028 Sumeet Patnaik - UEMF15029 INTRODUCTION TO HOME APPLIANCE INDUSTRY: Home appliances market include; washing machines/ dryers, fridges and freezers, coffee machines, air conditioners, heaters, TVs, recording devices etc. The global market for household
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Strategic Management: We can define Strategic Management as the art and science of formulating, implementing, and evaluating cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives. Strategic Management focuses on integrating management, marketing, finance/accounting, production/operation, research and development (R&D) and computer information systems to achieve organizational success. Strategic management involves strategy development, which is
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Institutional affiliation: Date: International Business Strategy Introduction There has been growing concern for the economic interdependence of nations on a global scale. As a result, companies have stepped up the cross-border business transactions in the recent past. Widespread sharing of technology, global economic shifts, and international governance among others, have been the enabling factors. Visionary business leadership has transformed national-level firms into
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Institutional affiliation: Date: International Business Strategy Introduction There has been growing concern for the economic interdependence of nations on a global scale. As a result, companies have stepped up the cross-border business transactions in the recent past. Widespread sharing of technology, global economic shifts, and international governance among others, have been the enabling factors. Visionary business leadership has transformed national-level firms into
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SUCCESSFACTORS / WHITE PAPER CORE HR: WHY AND HOW Core HR: Why and how Creating a global process platform Imagine today’s global talent landscape. In New York City, a marketing director shares a highly qualified candidate for a hard-to-fill management position with her counterpart in Singapore. An engineer designing a pipeline in an office in Sao Paolo finds the answer to a question about fluid dynamics from a colleague in the field in western Canada. And in Paris, three well-qualified internal
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a more strategic role? 4. INTRODUCTION There has been a dramatic shift in the role of human resource management (HRM) in recent decades. Traditionally, the HR function has been viewed as primarily administrative, focusing on the level of the individual employee, the individual job, and the individual practice (Becker, Huselid, and Ulrich, 2001), with the basic premise that improvements in individual employee performance will automatically enhance organizational performance. In the 1990s, an emphasis
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Date: International Business Strategy Introduction There has been growing concern for the economic interdependence of nations on a global scale. As a result, companies have stepped up the cross-border business transactions in the recent past. Widespread sharing of technology, global economic shifts, and international governance among others, have been the enabling factors. Visionary business leadership has transformed national-level firms into
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MBA505 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT REV11A CHAPTER 1: ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENT POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, LEGAL, TECHNOLOGICAL CHAPTER SYNOPSIS This chapter explains the elements of International Business Management. It gives a sound understanding of factors such as Political and Economic Environment, Legal Environment, and Technological Environment. Also, it covers the effects of Regional Trading Blocks, Information Technology, The Globalization of Human Capital, The Global Manager’s Role
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(GDP) and the general development of her economy. As a result, there’s no improvement in the level of poverty. In the 90s, came the era of globalization which connotes external opening and increased role of markets domestically (i.e. the market economy). To the developing world, market economy is a modern way of turning the economy around. The essence of globalization is to move the economy towards external liberation, focusing on market oriented economic system, export-led strategy and stabilization
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