Evaluate the company’s approach
Broadly speaking, all the business activities involves a certain degree of risks. When the domestic firm’s business activities happened across the border, it will generates an additional risks whereas no longer happens in domestic country area – Country-risk. In additional, Country-risk various exists whatever the level of economic development of the country (KOBRIN, 1979). Thus, Country-risk analysis for the case aim to identified the potential risks that enhance the expected return of a cross-border investment.
The U.S. political/legal environment is viewed as the legal framework where the BlackBerry. Inc. operates and this is processing through law or regulations (e.g. Intellectual property rights) that guides the operations in a particular country area. Therefore, BlackBerry. Inc. must take practical actions to these constraints, actual and potential, and reduce the risk of these elements to a certain degree. This paper summarized these factors where happened in Patent-infringement case, 1. ‘Unintended consequences’ – Law may be unexpected strict in United States, and it may harm business without intention. 2. Individual country laws and practices differ widely, and it is described as “Domestic Oriented Laws – purpose to developing and utilizing …show more content…
Inc. lack of local partner support. Such benefits/advantages as local partners could help BlackBerry. Inc. decrease political risks by the comprehensive understanding of domestic marketing and legal issue, and provide feedbacks back to BlackBerry. Inc. Moreover, the local partner may share the risks if the projects/cases are intractable based on alliance relationship. In fact, multi-national cooperation have to deal with an invisible market barriers and uncertainty political environment without the help from their domestic ally. Under these circumstances, this options could be most effective and useful to the most major international
Broadly speaking, all the business activities involves a certain degree of risks. When the domestic firm’s business activities happened across the border, it will generates an additional risks whereas no longer happens in domestic country area – Country-risk. In additional, Country-risk various exists whatever the level of economic development of the country (KOBRIN, 1979). Thus, Country-risk analysis for the case aim to identified the potential risks that enhance the expected return of a cross-border investment.
The U.S. political/legal environment is viewed as the legal framework where the BlackBerry. Inc. operates and this is processing through law or regulations (e.g. Intellectual property rights) that guides the operations in a particular country area. Therefore, BlackBerry. Inc. must take practical actions to these constraints, actual and potential, and reduce the risk of these elements to a certain degree. This paper summarized these factors where happened in Patent-infringement case, 1. ‘Unintended consequences’ – Law may be unexpected strict in United States, and it may harm business without intention. 2. Individual country laws and practices differ widely, and it is described as “Domestic Oriented Laws – purpose to developing and utilizing …show more content…
Inc. lack of local partner support. Such benefits/advantages as local partners could help BlackBerry. Inc. decrease political risks by the comprehensive understanding of domestic marketing and legal issue, and provide feedbacks back to BlackBerry. Inc. Moreover, the local partner may share the risks if the projects/cases are intractable based on alliance relationship. In fact, multi-national cooperation have to deal with an invisible market barriers and uncertainty political environment without the help from their domestic ally. Under these circumstances, this options could be most effective and useful to the most major international