Internationalization

Globalization is a phenomenon resulting in, increasing flow of goods in international borders and is the same in case of service, people, technology and culture (Held et al 1999,p.16). Robert Giplin, a decorated political scientist quotes globalization as, “increasing interdependencies and national economies in trade, macroeconomic policies and finance”(Giplin 1987,p.389). Jones argued this by stating that economical growth is a subset of globalization. It is not the only growth one looks for…

2. BACKGROUND 2.1 Industry Analysis To better understand the position of the Group in the food industry, the Porter’s 5 forces (5F) analysis best covers the information provided about the sectors (Porter, 2008). The 5F represents a useful framework to follow in order to develop a useful picture of the main sector characteristics (Giarratana, 2016). The forces are as follows: 1) Actual Competition in the sector (The extent in terms of both the basis and intensity of competition that tends to…

Study abroad is a term long program, usually run by a university, that allows students to live in a foreign country and attend a foreign university. The number of US students participating in Study Abroad programs has grown between 1997 and 2007, the number of participants grew from under 100,000 to 250,000. Participants of study abroad programs continued its growth in 2011-2012 grew to 283,332. By following this trend in the amount of participants is expected to increase and the Institute for…

Introduction There are two internationalization strategies which play an active role behind the development of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs): exporting and foreign direct investment (FDI). They either act jointly or individually to affect the growth of such firms. FDI is more effective than exporting strategy for the growth of SMEs. A strategy which incorporates high rate of exporting with high FDI will have obviously higher rates of firm growth. Those firms who take up the…

The re-organisation taken place in FedEx has totally redesigned its business processes around the Web. Most of its shipments are ordered, tracked, and managed via the Internet. In the new economy, FedEx need to consider its growth potential with respect to any investment opportunity, yet assessing that potential has never been more difficult. The post-dotcom era foresee that only those who focus on the customer and on creating new customer value proposition can succeed. In this new world,…

6.2.2.1 Factor of development strategies Seven KCIs were divided into a factor comprising development strategies: KCI-12 reputation, KCI-53 brand, KCI-17 research and development, KCI-16 risk management, KCI-32 the level of Internationalisation, KCI-7 communication and cooperation and KCI-11 value-added for stakeholders. KCI-12 Reputation Gerard et al (2016) defined reputation as beliefs or perceptions held about the quality of a focal actor. In a firm, corporate reputation has intangible…

In Finland, the main background factor for the rapid emergence of science and technology policy in the 1960s was economic. In the whole industrialized world, the early 1960s were an era of intensified internationalization and liberalization of trade. This placed new strains on Finland’s production structure, which was one-sided (high dependence on the forest industry), and its level of technology, which was low compared with Finland’s main competitors. Catching…

that are considered suitable for use in CBI’s plan for entering Vietnam will (i) each be described of its functions, usage as well as (ii) critique. Also the model’s (iii) application on CBI’s case together with assessed outcome. I Uppsala internationalization Model Function and usage: This model explains how firms select and gradually increase their activities in foreign markets. And it distinguishes four different stages of entering an international market: “ Stage 1: no regular export…

Economies of scale refer to economic efficiencies as an outcome of conducting a process on a mass scale. Scale effects come to picture due to the presence of fixed and variable costs in the production process. In other words, ‘Economies of Scale’ or ‘Increasing Returns to Scale’, is a term used by economists to refer to the situation in which the cost of producing an additional unit of output (i.e., the marginal cost) of a product (i.e. a good or service) declines as the quantum of output (i.e.,…

Economic interest groups are ubiquitous and the most prominent in all countries. There are literally thousands of them with offices in national capitals from London to Ottawa to New Delhi to Canberra. There are several different kinds of economic interests: business groups (e.g., the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the Confederation of British Industry, and the Nestlé Corporation, headquartered in Switzerland and with operations throughout the world), labour groups (e.g., IG Metall…