INDEX 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. 1.2. BACKGROUND ENVIRONMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL 2. THE IMPORTANCE OF SMEs 3. ROLE OF ENTREPRENEUR 4. ENTREPRENEURSHIP. International 5. INTERNATIONALIZATION PROCESSES. Theories. 5.1. 5.2. UPSALA MODEL. HECKSCHER-OHLIN MODEL 6. THE PROCESS OF INTERNATIONALIZATION 7. ENTREPRENEURIAL MARKETING 7.1. 7.2. 7.3. SWOT ANALYSIS MARKET ENTRY STRATEGY COOPERATION STRATEGY 8. TARGET COUNTRY 9. GEM 10. GOVERNMENT SUPPORT 11. CONCLUSION 12. RECOMMENDATIONS 13. REFERENCES
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The context contemporary global business environment s requires companies to keep up with the pace of rapid changes and to meet financial expectations of numerous stakeholders. However these expectations are not financial only. Growing environmental concerns, depleting natural resources, globalisation issues, political and social instability require companies to reconsider their change management practices to comply with stakeholders expectations Pharmaceutical industry is no exception. The pharmaceutical
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and production of synthetic diamond supermaterials, and operates worldwide with its head office registered in Luxembourg, and primary manufacturing facilities in China, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, South Africa and the UK. For over 50 years, the core business has remained the synthesis and processing of synthetic diamond supermaterials, a term which includes manufactured synthetic diamond and other supermaterials such as cubic boron nitride (CBN), tungsten carbide and silicon cemented diamond. While synthetic
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Meaning of recruitment: According to Edwin B. Flippo, “Recruitment is the process of searching the candidates for employment and stimulating them to apply for jobs in the organisation”. Recruitment is the activity that links the employers and the job seekers. A few definitions of recruitment are: • A process of finding and attracting capable applicants for employment. The process begins when new recruits are sought and ends when their applications are submitted. The result is a pool of
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we all have a clear understanding of what our role is and what is expected of us. To do this we use job descriptions which describe the aims and objectives of jobs and the behavioural competencies and generic skills required to do a specific job. These form part of the Organisational Skills Profile together with a third element, job families. At the British Council we use a standard set of 13 behavioural competencies. This dictionary describes them in further detail. For further information on
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other behavioral science terms like Leadership, there are many different definitions of culture used in management today. The famous Dutch behavioral scientist, Geert Hofstede defined culture “as the collective mental programming of a people in an environment". These mental programming consists of values, attitudes,
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The purpose of this research paper is to define the most difficult challenges of international human resource management, such as cultural diversity and the problem of managing people in different cultures and environments, convergence and divergence and the variety of international organizational models that exist. This paper proves that human resource managers of global organizations can not afford to ignore challenges of international human resource management, in order to ensure company’s success
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Communication Challenges in Global Virtual Teams Abstract This paper approaches some of the communication challenges in global virtual teams, such as diversity understanding, asynchronous communication, behavior, language barriers, lack of trust, and technological problems. This paper groups the challenges into five main categories and describes the common issues leaders and team members need to address and overcome in order to succeed. The five categories are time zones, cultural
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