strategies and capitalize on evolving competitive markets (Lindgrin, 2012). Both the companies Yahoo and Amazon are constantly implementing such strategies to maintain a reputation that stays ahead of the market trends, information system and globalization. This study will evaluate the success of both companies’ corporate-level strategies in terms of horizontal integration, vertical integration, strategic outsourcing and diversification, and will determine the type of strategy that contributed most
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DETERMINANTS OF FDI IN CHINA DETERMINANTS OF FDI IN CHINA Shaukat Ali and Wei Guo1 ABSTRACT Why and how firms take advantage of foreign opportunities, especially via foreign direct investment (FDI) has been much documented. China, as a major emerging market, has attracted significant flows of FDI, to become the second largest receipt. This paper briefly examines the literature on FDI and focuses on likely determinants of FDI in China. It then analyses responses from 22 firms operating
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Walmart around the World 1. Evaluate Walmart’s globalization strategy over the last two decades. Where did the retailer struggle? Where did it do well? Can location characteristics explain the differences in Walmart performance 2. Walmart entered in some countries through acquisitions and in some countries through greenfield investment. What entry mode do you think was best? Did location characteristics drive the mode of entry? Why? 3. In 2013, Walmart decided to enter the Indian market
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Walmart around the World 1. Evaluate Walmart’s globalization strategy over the last two decades. Where did the retailer struggle? Where did it do well? Can location characteristics explain the differences in Walmart performance 2. Walmart entered in some countries through acquisitions and in some countries through greenfield investment. What entry mode do you think was best? Did location characteristics drive the mode of entry? Why? 3. In 2013, Walmart decided to enter the Indian market
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| INDIA AND SUBPRIME CRISIS | | INDIA AND SUB-PRIME CRISIS Sub-prime, as the word suggests, is something that is not prime. In the Sub-prime crisis context it simply means lending money to Sub-prime borrowers i.e. lending to people with low or poor credit worthiness. Sub-prime crisis was caused because the lending norms in the USA were very lax. It is joked about in the academic circles that any man who was not on a respirator was given a loan without any regard to his or her creditworthiness
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India is becoming the new destination for luxury brands across the globe and Indian government opening Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail has resulted in many global luxury retail brands to plan and strategize their expansion in India. If industry experts are to be believed Indian customers are more than ready to spend on these high-end luxury products evolving India in a major way. Post the economic reforms of 1991 the Indian luxury market which was virtually non-existent at the time witnessed
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“We are one team” – H&M Executive Summary Sitting on top as the 3rd largest fast fashion producer in the world, H&M has enjoyed a spectacular 10% growth in the last five years. With its 600 million garments produced every year, H&M is a large player in the race to becoming a sustainable fashion house. After embracing sustainability at large in the last decade, H&M has made significant changes internally towards adopting and embedding sustainability into all their operations
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CONTENTS Media, messages and styles used by Indian marketing communicators of Films 1. Overview of Indian Film Industry and Market 2. 4Ps concept applied on the movie industry as a whole 3. Overview of the film making business 4. Classification of movies from a producer’s or distributor’s point of view 5. Classification of movies as products 6. Publicity of movies 7. How different media is used for publicity of movies? 8. Alterative marketing methods 9. Music as a promotion
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[pic] Assignment On “Impacts of the Ready-Made Garments (RMG) Sector to the Bangladesh Economy” SUBMITTED TO Mahboob Ul Alam A full time faculty member of ‘’BGMEA Institute of Fashion & Technology (BIFT)’’ SUBMITTED BY Wasik Chowdhury Abdur Rahman Jewel Md. Shahadat Hossen Chowdhury Course Name: Apparel Merchandising (MER 227) Batch : 57 SUBMISSION DATE: September 21, 2011 Letter of Transmittal September 21, 2011 Mahboob Ul Alam A full time faculty member of BGMEA
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All these factors have contributed to Geox’s fast growth in a market that was already mature. Notwithstanding Geox’s leadership position in Italy, the company is not immune from the negative effects of the economic and financial crisis and of globalization. The main challenges that the company is facing are mainly constituted by increasing and labour and raw material costs. The crisis, which has been particularly strong in Italy, has made people poorer. Thus, consumers have became more price sensitive
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