UNIT – I INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS – AN OVERVIEW Content Outline Introduction Definition and meaning of international business Scope of international business Special difficulties in international business Benefits of international business Understanding of international business environment Framework for analyzing the international business environment Summary Review Questions INTRODUCTION One of the most dramatic and significant world trends in the past
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foreign affiliates. According to a report of international labour office the essential nature of multinational enterprises lies in the fact that its managerial headquarters are located in one country while the enterprise carries out operations in a number of other countries as well.´ CHARACTERISTICS OF MNC: * Large size * Worldwide operations * Centralized control * Sophisticated technology * Professional management * International market * High brand equity ROLES OF
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Management. Chapman and Hall, 1990). International business is a potentially lucrative area of many businesses, but the small business owner should be aware that establishing one self in a foreign market is a complex, and time consuming task. Many small businesses in Ghana have dramatically improved their financial fortunes by pursuing export opportunities, but the vast majority of enterprises that have been successful in this regard did not enter the world of international trade until they had fully researched
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B13083 Lakshita Jain B13093 Puskar Pandey B13103 Shashank Gandhi B13113 Vinay Goyal B13123 Contents Aggregate Market Factors 3 Market Size 3 Macro-economic factors 5 Political & Legal: 6 Economic: 8 Technological: 11 Micro Environmental factors 11 Pressure from substitutes & Market power of suppliers 12 Pressure from substitutes: 12 Market power of suppliers: 13 Category Capacity: 13 Current rivalry in industry
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INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION ACT/EMP PUBLICATIONS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND GLOBALIZATION: CHALLENGES FOR EMPLOYERS AND THEIR ORGANIZATIONS Prepared by David Macdonald Senior Industrial Relations Specialist ILO/EASMAT Bangkok Paper presented at the ILO Workshop on Employers' Organizations in Asia-Pacific in the Twenty-First Century Turin, Italy, 5-13 May 1997. [Top] [Next] Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Industrial Relations (IR) in the Global Context (a) IR - a definition
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Topic Two: Human Rights Rights The nature and development of concepts of human rights. State sovereignty, ‘natural law’ doctrine, historic constitutional documents, movement for slavery abolition, trade unionism, universal suffrage and universal education Human Rights Human rights are the basic rights to which all human beings are entitled to. The most recognized document in modern human rights is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created by the UN. Human rights can be said
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1. Introduction 1.1 From the dawn of human civilization, we, human being are directly or indirectly dependent to each other. For our better living, we created family, then formed group/society, then country and international community. Each individual, each family, each group and each country are dependent on each other by some means. For the easy exchange of dependency, people introduced business. “Business is defined as the exchange of goods, services or money for mutual benefit or profit.”
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order certain measures. Regulatory agencies are usually a part of the executive branch of the government, or they have statutory authority to perform their functions with oversight from the legislative branch. Their actions are generally open to legal review. Regulatory authorities are commonly set up to enforce standards and safety, or to oversee use of public goods and regulate commerce. Economic regulators are the agencies established by central government for the control of or intervention
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The Fluid Landscape of Legal Systems Question 2 Roger Cotterrell has written the following: “What all of these indications add up to is the recognition that neither legal systems nor societies can be thought of as unified and integrated in the way that western thought has often assumed. A comparative legal perspective is no more than the systematic recognition that law is always fluid, pluralistic, contested and subject to often contradictory pressures from both inside and outside its jurisdiction;
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the first time. The following are his main activities: 1 2 3 4 Helping the young players to settle in during their first week Identifying each player’s key skills and encouraging them to develop new skills Advising the players on addressing personal issues, such as managing their finances Helping the players to
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