BA SEMESTER 4 International Business – Sample Questions Q/No | QUESTIONS | COVERED IN | TO BE ATTEMPTED BY STUDENT AFTER | 1 | Ford Case Study 1. Discuss – and justify – what you feel to be the main auto industry (global) drivers, together with the corresponding generic marketing strategies and key success factors that the major suppliers should possess, if they are to be successful. 2. Discuss the rationale behind Ford’s ‘2000 globalisation plan’ and comment on performance over the
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Proton’s External Environment Analysis Contents Introduction 4 PART: 1 Proton Introduction 4 About Proton 4 PART: 2 Proton’s External Environment Analysis 5 2.1 PESTEL Analysis 6 2.1.1 Political and legal factors 7 2.1.2 Economic Factors 7 2.1.3 Social-Cultural Factors 8 2.1.4 Technological Factors 8 2.1.5 Environmental Factors 11 2.2 PROTON’s SWOT Analysis 12 2.3 Industry Analysis 12 Proton five forces model 13 2.3.1 Threat of New Entrants 13 2.3.2 Bargaining Power
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Case 5 Kathryn From and Bravado! Designs GM 560 DeAngela L. Dixon February 6, 2011 1. Track the changes in the Bravado! supply chain in the “Before” and “After” columns. The last column will analyze the overall “Impact of the changes. Before * Design. Create own product with in-house designers. * Materials requisition and payment. Find sources of materials and pay for them; suppliers will require a cash outlay six months before delivery. * Materials. Receive material and
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an expansion into a country must address a mass amount of issues by the host country. The factors affecting a nation's rate of utilization and absorption of technologies include both external and internal ones. Internal factors are comprised of the obtainable human and physical resources, the country's infrastructure, and its growth rate and state of development the host country must provide. External factors embrace the readiness of merchants to conduct commerce in the country, and the accessibility
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Table of Contents Introduction 1 Define the contexts of business strategy (1.1) 2 The importance of a written vision/mission statement for a company 4 If a student is able to provide an overview of findings using the following queries as guide (M1) 6 Select four organizations and find their mission Statements and complete the following exhibit by identifying stakeholders that are mentioned and evaluate the differences between firms in the private sector and those in the public sector (M2)
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Harvard Business School 9-389-080 Rev. December 5, 1989 Country Analysis Framework This framework takes the nation as the unit of analysis. Effective managers must be able to analyze systematically the national and international environments in which they operate. This note presents a framework to help them do this. Since government actions shape business environments, that is the starting point for country analysis. In this view, nations have strategic purposes, the capacity to mobilize
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL AUDIT Professor PhD Atanasiu Pop, „Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, e-mail: apop@econ.ubblcuj.ro PhD Student Cristina Boţa-Avram, „Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, e-mail: botaavram@gmail.com PhD Student Florin Boţa-Avram, „Babeş Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, e-mail: botaavramflorin@yahoo.com ABSTRACT: Analyzing the evolution process of internal audit, from its beginnings and so far, we can easily notice that internal audit
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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Table of Contents Introduction2 Task 13 Task 25 Task 36 Task 48 References10 BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Introduction: This assignment gives a description of business environment and its purposes, nature etc. Business environment is the sum of two environments that is micro environment or internal environment and macro environment or external environment. This micro environment is the immediate environment of the organization because it affects the company performance
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as the basis to help them to compete successfully at a business level by adding values to the separate parts of the business or by using synergies or channeling resources between business units. This report on Whitbread will be oriented in answering this question: What market or businesses should whitbread invest in, including diversification in related activities, entering new market, new geographies and how much to invest in each business so as to maximise its long-run profitability? First, after
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pizza store in Ypsilanti, Michigan named Domi-Nicks with a nine hundred dollar start up loan. In 1961 Tom acquired full and sole ownership of Domi-Nicks by trading his brother James a car, a Volkswagen Beetle to be specific, for his half of the business. He then changed the name to Domino’s Pizza Inc. During the period from 1965 to 1978 Domino’s experienced steady growth and had increased from the initial mom-and-pop store, to having 200 locations nationwide. The 1980’s saw continued expansion
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