International business has never been a simple matter. In point of fact, with the diversified number of countries which engage in global business, the challenge is anything but easily surpassed. There are many lessons to be learned in gaining an international view of economics. Education about the world’s economic structure, cultural differences and the interrelation between the two is as important as understanding the methods […]

INTERNATIONAL MARKET OF WAL-MART QUESTION Assignment 1: Challenges in international management Type: Individual Format: Essay (You are encouraged to use headings and/or sub-headings to separate the sections/cases of your essay. ) Word limit: 2500 words (variation within 10% more or less is allowed) This activity is a platform to sharpen and demonstrate your knowledge and analytical skills in international business. It is designed to help […]

Abstract Walt Disney is a well diversified amusement company with global presence and China is a blooming market and the global economic engine. With the theme park business in both the US and Europe already saturated, and a dwindling number of visitors affecting the profits, it is an opportunistic moment for Disney to enter China. The proposed joint venture with the State owned ‘Shanghai Shendi […]

While business ethics emerged as a field in the 1970s, international business ethics did not emerge until the late 1990s, looking back on the international developments of that decade. Many new practical issues arose out of the international context of business. Theoretical issues such as cultural relativity of ethical values receive more emphasis in this field. Other, older issues can be grouped here as well. […]

POLITICAL RISK IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS The term business normally refers to the act of doing any transactions that ends up in earning or losing money. The act that is ending up in financial implications is called business. This business can be considered as a result of collective commercial transactions of all types involving government, private, corporate, individual or a group of individual, and so on. […]

Abstract Capitalist and mostly single family centered, Zaibatsu led to a static system with weak competitive forces resulting in what is known as ‘cordial oligopoly’. (Niciejewska, 2007, pg 17) Keiretsu networks on the other hand, with its cross stockholdings is more dynamic and provided a more competitive business economy that continued to drive the Japanese economy during the post war period. The high cohesion that […]

Headquartered in the USA, the Coca-Cola Company is the largest beverage processing and manufacturing multinational company in the world. 1 In addition to Coca-Cola, arguably the most popular beverage brand in the world, the company also markets four other leading soft drink brands that include Sprite, Fanta, Krest and Coca-Cola light. Coca-Cola Company also markets other types of beverage products ranging from soft drinks, diet […]

Abstract             International business fuels competition between different geographic regions in China. The need to become a part of the World Trade Organization, and the need to attract significant investments put Guangzhou and Shanghai into an extremely competitive environment. Guangzhou’s experience reveals the hidden facets of international business: closed borders and inactivity are not the best friends of business stability. On the contrary, business requires […]

International Business: Toyota Business Model An international business is one which has offices both in the parent company and in other nations regardless of the business culture. Any business that wants to establish a name outside its home country needs to be flexible, open and accepting of the guest nation’s business culture. In order to succeed it has to compete with the guest nations businesses […]

The article chosen for this paper is Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Study Says Private Equity Isn’t Big Job Killer published in New York Times on January 25, 2008. Selection of the publication is beyond any ambiguity. The New York Times is a media company established in America. The company is best known world wide for publishing the news paper “The New York Times” which is its […]