This document discusses the stages of internationalization that companies go through as they expand globally. It begins by outlining several drivers of corporate internationalization including cost drivers, government drivers, competitive drivers, and market drivers. It then describes 5 stages of internationalization that companies typically progress through: 1) Domestic Company, 2) International Company, 3) Multinational Company, 4) Global Company, and 5) Transnational Company. For each stage, it provides details on the company's strategy, view of world markets, orientation, key assets, and the role of country units. It concludes by summarizing the differences between each stage in a chart.
1. The document discusses four orientations - ethnocentric, polycentric, regiocentric, and geocentric - that companies may adopt in their international operations based on their level of involvement and goals.
2. An ethnocentric orientation views overseas markets as secondary and uses a domestic market extension approach, while a polycentric orientation adapts to each local market.
3. A regiocentric orientation views regions as distinct markets, and a geocentric company sees the world as a single market and aims for standardized global operations.
This document provides an overview of international business. It begins with defining international business and providing reasons companies engage in it. It then outlines the four stages of internationalization: domestic company, international company, multinational company, and global company. The document also discusses the differences between domestic and foreign companies, approaches to international business, and several theories of international business. It concludes with outlining the chapter. The document serves as an introductory guide to understanding the nature and scope of international business.
This document provides an overview of international marketing and strategies for entering foreign markets. It discusses factors that encourage companies to expand internationally and inherent risks involved. Companies must decide which markets to enter, whether to use a waterfall or sprinkler approach, and how to adapt strategies for developed vs developing markets. The main options for entering a market are indirect/direct exporting, licensing, joint ventures, and direct investment. Companies often start with indirect exporting to test foreign demand before establishing a direct presence overseas. Regional economic integration is increasing the importance of entering entire regions simultaneously.
This document provides an overview of international entrepreneurship. It discusses key topics like the meaning and nature of international entrepreneurship, the importance of international business, and factors that drive entrepreneurs to expand internationally. It also outlines various methods for entering international markets, including exporting, non-equity arrangements, foreign direct investment, and strategic partnerships. Finally, it discusses barriers to international trade such as cultural, economic, political, and regulatory differences between countries.
This document provides an overview of international business concepts including:
1. Definitions of international business and the process of internationalization from domestic to global levels.
2. Key drivers of globalization including costs, technology, government policies, and competition.
3. Common approaches to international business such as ethnocentric, regiocentric, geocentric, and polycentric orientations.
4. Important theories of international trade including absolute advantage, comparative advantage, and the Heckscher-Ohlin theory.
The document discusses international business management orientations and models. It describes Perlmutter's EPRG model, which classifies management orientations as ethnocentric, polycentric, regiocentric, or geocentric. It also discusses the nature and scope of the EPRG approach, sectors with potential for international business in India, and modes of entry into foreign markets like exporting, joint ventures, outsourcing, and foreign direct investment. Finally, it covers topics like international strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and provides an example of Sun Pharmaceuticals acquiring Ranbaxy.
The document discusses various international market entry strategies including exporting, licensing, partnering, acquisitions, and establishing new subsidiaries. Exporting provides low risk entry but low control, while establishing new subsidiaries allows maximum control but is costly and risky. Partnering offers shared costs and local knowledge through a local partner. Successful market expansion requires evaluating each option's advantages and disadvantages to select the best strategy for a company's goals.
This document provides an overview of Lidl's global strategy and expansion into new markets. It discusses Lidl's origins in Germany and its expansion across Europe and into the UK by 2000. Reasons for Lidl's international expansion include accessing new consumer bases and talent pools. Pakistan is identified as a potential target market due to its large population and growing retail industry. The document analyzes Pakistan using PESTLE factors and recommends Lidl pursue a multidomestic strategy and direct exporting approach to enter the Pakistani grocery market. Potential organizational challenges for Lidl subsidiaries include talent acquisition, employee management, and partner selection.
This document discusses various concepts in international business, including definitions, approaches, drivers of globalization, and theories of international trade. It defines international business as extending business activities across national borders to target international customers. The main approaches discussed are ethnocentric, regiocentric, geocentric, and polycentric orientations. Key drivers of globalization include costs, technology, government policies, and competition. Important theories covered include absolute advantage, comparative advantage, Heckscher-Ohlin theory, and product life cycle theory.
This document discusses different types of international business strategies:
- Multidomestic strategy involves high localization and customization for each market with low integration. Nestle is an example.
- Global strategy pursues high standardization and integration worldwide with low localization. Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer employ this.
- Transnational strategy balances high integration with responsiveness to local needs through specialized subsidiaries. Unilever is an example.
- International strategy has low integration and localization, exporting products from home country through local subsidiaries. Large wine producers use this model.
This document discusses international marketing orientations using the EPRG framework. It describes the four orientations as ethnocentric, polycentric, regiocentric, and geocentric. The ethnocentric orientation views the home country as superior and assumes a standardized global approach. The polycentric orientation sees each country as unique and requires localized adaptation. The regiocentric orientation treats regions (like NAFTA or the EU) as the relevant unit. Finally, the geocentric orientation views the entire world as a potential market and combines both standardized and adapted approaches.
This document provides an overview of international business. It defines international business as transactions that cross national boundaries and includes product presence in different markets, global production bases, diverse human resources, international investments and intellectual property transactions. It discusses why international business is important to study and how understanding global business helps managers operate effectively. It also outlines factors that have encouraged the growth of international business like regional trade blocs and declining trade barriers.
Unit-1-lecture-1(Introduction, Nature and Scope of International business)Dr.B.B. Tiwari
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International business refers to buying and selling goods or services across national borders. There are several reasons for and forms of engaging in international business. Reasons include exploring growth opportunities, reducing costs, and accessing new technologies or capital. Major forms include exporting, licensing, franchising, contract manufacturing, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and foreign direct investment through foreign subsidiaries. While international business provides benefits like large economies of scale, it also presents challenges such as differing cultures, currencies, laws and regulations between countries.
This document outlines key concepts in managing international business operations. It defines globalization and the forces driving it, as well as the implications for managers in political, economic, socio-cultural and technological environments. Methods for foreign market entry are discussed, including exporting, licensing, joint ventures, strategic alliances and wholly owned subsidiaries. International business strategies like international, global, multidomestic and transnational are also defined. The roles of expatriate managers and reasons for expatriate failure are summarized. Trends in increasingly global business operations are noted.
International business involves transactions across national borders to satisfy needs of individuals and organizations. The primary types of transactions are export-import trade and foreign direct investment. A business engages in international business when it produces or sells in a foreign country and is associated with or controlled by an enterprise operating in other countries. Globalization refers to the rapid increase in economic activity across borders and includes how goods and services are produced, delivered, sold, and how capital moves. As companies progress from domestic to international to multinational to global, their orientation shifts from ethnocentric to polycentric to geocentric.
This document discusses various topics related to international business including:
- The evolution of international trade from exporting to nearby countries to establishing foreign facilities.
- Characteristics and factors that affect international business such as the need for accurate and timely information, market segmentation, and regional trade organizations.
- Advantages of international business like increased standards of living, risk reduction, and cultural exchange.
- Problems faced by international businesses like political instability, currency fluctuations, and trade barriers.
The document discusses various strategies for international marketing operations and foreign market selection. It outlines four broad orientations - ethnocentric, regiocentric, geocentric, and polycentric - that determine a firm's level of involvement and control over foreign marketing activities. When selecting foreign markets, firms determine objectives, collect market information, analyze data, create shortlists, conduct in-depth research, and select markets that offer the best long-term potential. Positioning involves strategically developing a unique and advantageous position for a brand in the minds of consumers.
This document discusses various aspects of international marketing, including reasons for companies to engage in international business, differences between domestic and international marketing, and strategies for entering foreign markets. It notes that as more economies and competitors become global, US firms are increasingly engaging in international marketing through methods like foreign manufacturing, joint ventures, licensing, and imports. Competing globally allows companies to tap new markets and enhance long-term profits, but also adds complexity from dealing with different cultures, governments, and economic conditions.
1. International trade involves cross-border transactions of goods, services, and resources between nations for commercial purposes.
2. There are several reasons why companies enter international markets, including accessing new markets and resources, reducing costs, and gaining competitive advantages.
3. While international trade provides benefits like increased specialization and access to cheaper goods, it also faces challenges such as political risks, trade barriers, and cultural differences between countries.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in international marketing. It defines international marketing and distinguishes it from global marketing. It then covers advantages of international business, reasons for staying domestic, stages of internationalization process, and approaches to international marketing including orientations, modes of entry, and cultural considerations. The document also outlines the international market entry evaluation process and analyzing the international marketing environment, including examples of PEST, SWOT, and five forces analyses.
An international strategy involves selling goods or services outside a company's domestic market to access new opportunities. A global strategy unifies a company's approach worldwide with limited variations. While global strategies offer benefits like economies of scale, they also involve substantial costs to implement worldwide brands, production, and management coordination. Whether and how to pursue a global strategy depends on balancing these benefits and costs for a company's specific products and industries.
Managers must consider their global perspective and attitude when operating internationally. There are three main attitudes: parochial views one's own culture as superior; ethnocentric views the home country's way as best; and geocentric takes a worldwide view seeking the best approaches anywhere. Successful global managers adopt a geocentric outlook. Organizations expand overseas through various strategies like exporting, licensing, franchising, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and foreign subsidiaries. Managing globally requires understanding differing economic systems, political and legal landscapes, and cultural norms across countries.
International business strategy refers to plans that guide commercial transactions between entities in different countries. There are various methods companies use to do business internationally, such as global sourcing, exporting, importing, licensing and franchising, strategic alliances, and establishing foreign subsidiaries. While international business has occurred for over a century, new opportunities are growing for both large corporations and small businesses to expand their operations globally through approaches like strategic partnerships and online networking.
The document discusses different aspects of international business. It begins by defining international business as all commercial transactions that occur between two or more countries, including sales, investments, and transportation. It then explains the four main types of international business: 1) exporting, 2) licensing, 3) franchising, and 4) foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI refers to building new facilities in another country and can take the form of joint ventures or wholly-owned subsidiaries. The document provides details on each of the four types of international business.
The document discusses international business management orientations and models. It describes Perlmutter's EPRG model, which classifies management orientations as ethnocentric, polycentric, regiocentric, or geocentric. It also discusses the nature and scope of the EPRG approach, sectors with potential for international business in India, and modes of entry into foreign markets like exporting, joint ventures, outsourcing, and foreign direct investment. Finally, it covers topics like international strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and provides an example of Sun Pharmaceuticals acquiring Ranbaxy.
The document discusses various international market entry strategies including exporting, licensing, partnering, acquisitions, and establishing new subsidiaries. Exporting provides low risk entry but low control, while establishing new subsidiaries allows maximum control but is costly and risky. Partnering offers shared costs and local knowledge through a local partner. Successful market expansion requires evaluating each option's advantages and disadvantages to select the best strategy for a company's goals.
This document provides an overview of Lidl's global strategy and expansion into new markets. It discusses Lidl's origins in Germany and its expansion across Europe and into the UK by 2000. Reasons for Lidl's international expansion include accessing new consumer bases and talent pools. Pakistan is identified as a potential target market due to its large population and growing retail industry. The document analyzes Pakistan using PESTLE factors and recommends Lidl pursue a multidomestic strategy and direct exporting approach to enter the Pakistani grocery market. Potential organizational challenges for Lidl subsidiaries include talent acquisition, employee management, and partner selection.
This document discusses various concepts in international business, including definitions, approaches, drivers of globalization, and theories of international trade. It defines international business as extending business activities across national borders to target international customers. The main approaches discussed are ethnocentric, regiocentric, geocentric, and polycentric orientations. Key drivers of globalization include costs, technology, government policies, and competition. Important theories covered include absolute advantage, comparative advantage, Heckscher-Ohlin theory, and product life cycle theory.
This document discusses different types of international business strategies:
- Multidomestic strategy involves high localization and customization for each market with low integration. Nestle is an example.
- Global strategy pursues high standardization and integration worldwide with low localization. Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer employ this.
- Transnational strategy balances high integration with responsiveness to local needs through specialized subsidiaries. Unilever is an example.
- International strategy has low integration and localization, exporting products from home country through local subsidiaries. Large wine producers use this model.
This document discusses international marketing orientations using the EPRG framework. It describes the four orientations as ethnocentric, polycentric, regiocentric, and geocentric. The ethnocentric orientation views the home country as superior and assumes a standardized global approach. The polycentric orientation sees each country as unique and requires localized adaptation. The regiocentric orientation treats regions (like NAFTA or the EU) as the relevant unit. Finally, the geocentric orientation views the entire world as a potential market and combines both standardized and adapted approaches.
This document provides an overview of international business. It defines international business as transactions that cross national boundaries and includes product presence in different markets, global production bases, diverse human resources, international investments and intellectual property transactions. It discusses why international business is important to study and how understanding global business helps managers operate effectively. It also outlines factors that have encouraged the growth of international business like regional trade blocs and declining trade barriers.
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油
International business refers to buying and selling goods or services across national borders. There are several reasons for and forms of engaging in international business. Reasons include exploring growth opportunities, reducing costs, and accessing new technologies or capital. Major forms include exporting, licensing, franchising, contract manufacturing, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and foreign direct investment through foreign subsidiaries. While international business provides benefits like large economies of scale, it also presents challenges such as differing cultures, currencies, laws and regulations between countries.
This document outlines key concepts in managing international business operations. It defines globalization and the forces driving it, as well as the implications for managers in political, economic, socio-cultural and technological environments. Methods for foreign market entry are discussed, including exporting, licensing, joint ventures, strategic alliances and wholly owned subsidiaries. International business strategies like international, global, multidomestic and transnational are also defined. The roles of expatriate managers and reasons for expatriate failure are summarized. Trends in increasingly global business operations are noted.
International business involves transactions across national borders to satisfy needs of individuals and organizations. The primary types of transactions are export-import trade and foreign direct investment. A business engages in international business when it produces or sells in a foreign country and is associated with or controlled by an enterprise operating in other countries. Globalization refers to the rapid increase in economic activity across borders and includes how goods and services are produced, delivered, sold, and how capital moves. As companies progress from domestic to international to multinational to global, their orientation shifts from ethnocentric to polycentric to geocentric.
This document discusses various topics related to international business including:
- The evolution of international trade from exporting to nearby countries to establishing foreign facilities.
- Characteristics and factors that affect international business such as the need for accurate and timely information, market segmentation, and regional trade organizations.
- Advantages of international business like increased standards of living, risk reduction, and cultural exchange.
- Problems faced by international businesses like political instability, currency fluctuations, and trade barriers.
The document discusses various strategies for international marketing operations and foreign market selection. It outlines four broad orientations - ethnocentric, regiocentric, geocentric, and polycentric - that determine a firm's level of involvement and control over foreign marketing activities. When selecting foreign markets, firms determine objectives, collect market information, analyze data, create shortlists, conduct in-depth research, and select markets that offer the best long-term potential. Positioning involves strategically developing a unique and advantageous position for a brand in the minds of consumers.
This document discusses various aspects of international marketing, including reasons for companies to engage in international business, differences between domestic and international marketing, and strategies for entering foreign markets. It notes that as more economies and competitors become global, US firms are increasingly engaging in international marketing through methods like foreign manufacturing, joint ventures, licensing, and imports. Competing globally allows companies to tap new markets and enhance long-term profits, but also adds complexity from dealing with different cultures, governments, and economic conditions.
1. International trade involves cross-border transactions of goods, services, and resources between nations for commercial purposes.
2. There are several reasons why companies enter international markets, including accessing new markets and resources, reducing costs, and gaining competitive advantages.
3. While international trade provides benefits like increased specialization and access to cheaper goods, it also faces challenges such as political risks, trade barriers, and cultural differences between countries.
This document provides an overview of key concepts in international marketing. It defines international marketing and distinguishes it from global marketing. It then covers advantages of international business, reasons for staying domestic, stages of internationalization process, and approaches to international marketing including orientations, modes of entry, and cultural considerations. The document also outlines the international market entry evaluation process and analyzing the international marketing environment, including examples of PEST, SWOT, and five forces analyses.
An international strategy involves selling goods or services outside a company's domestic market to access new opportunities. A global strategy unifies a company's approach worldwide with limited variations. While global strategies offer benefits like economies of scale, they also involve substantial costs to implement worldwide brands, production, and management coordination. Whether and how to pursue a global strategy depends on balancing these benefits and costs for a company's specific products and industries.
Managers must consider their global perspective and attitude when operating internationally. There are three main attitudes: parochial views one's own culture as superior; ethnocentric views the home country's way as best; and geocentric takes a worldwide view seeking the best approaches anywhere. Successful global managers adopt a geocentric outlook. Organizations expand overseas through various strategies like exporting, licensing, franchising, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and foreign subsidiaries. Managing globally requires understanding differing economic systems, political and legal landscapes, and cultural norms across countries.
International business strategy refers to plans that guide commercial transactions between entities in different countries. There are various methods companies use to do business internationally, such as global sourcing, exporting, importing, licensing and franchising, strategic alliances, and establishing foreign subsidiaries. While international business has occurred for over a century, new opportunities are growing for both large corporations and small businesses to expand their operations globally through approaches like strategic partnerships and online networking.
The document discusses different aspects of international business. It begins by defining international business as all commercial transactions that occur between two or more countries, including sales, investments, and transportation. It then explains the four main types of international business: 1) exporting, 2) licensing, 3) franchising, and 4) foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI refers to building new facilities in another country and can take the form of joint ventures or wholly-owned subsidiaries. The document provides details on each of the four types of international business.
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2. STEPS IN INTERNATIONALISATION /GLOBALISATION
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DOMESTIC
COMPANY
MULTINATIONA
L COMPANY
TRANSNATIONAL
COMPANY
INTERNATIONAL
COMPANY
GLOBAL
COMPANY
3. 1. Domestic Company
if it is not happening in the home country, it is not happening
Limits its operations, mission and vision to the national political
boundaries.
Focuses its view on the domestic market opportunities, domestic
suppliers, domestic financial companies, domestic customers etc
Never thinks of growing globally
If it grows, beyond its present capacity, the company selects the
diversification strategy of entering into new domestic markets, new
products, technology
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4. 2. International Company
The focus of these companies is domestic but extends the wings to the
foreign countries.
Go for international trade either forced by domestic or foreign forces
Most of the companies follow this strategy due to limited resources and also
to learn from the foreign markets gradually before becoming a global
company without much risk.
Extends the domestic country marketing mix and business model and
practices to foreign countries
Believe that the practices adopted in domestic business the people and
products of domestic business are superior to those of other countries.
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5. 3. Multinational Company
Multinational company is also referred to as multi-domestic.
Multi-domestic company formulates different strategies for
different markets
The orientation shifts from ethnocentric to polycentric.
Under polycentric orientation the offices/branches/subsidiaries of a
multinational company work like domestic company in each country
where they operate with distinct policies and strategies suitable to
the country concerned.
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6. 4. Global Company
Global company either produces in home country or in a single
country and focuses on marketing these products globally, or
produces the products globally and focuses on marketing these
products domestically.
Example - Harley designs and produces super heavy weight motorcycles in the USA and
markets in the global market.
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7. 5. Transnational Company
Transnational company produces, markets, invests and operates
across the world.
It is an integrated global enterprise that links global resources with
global markets at profit.
A transnational company is geocentric in its orientation.
This company thinks globally and acts locally.
This company allows adaptation to add value to its global offer
The assets of a transnational company are distributed throughout
the world, independent and specialised
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8. Chart : Different scenerio of internationalisation of companies
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Stage of
company
1. Domestic
Company
2.International
Company
3.Multinational
Company
4.Global Company 5.Transnational
Company
Strategy Domestic International Multi Domestic Global Global
Model N.A Co-oriented
Federation
Decentralise
Federation
Centralised Hub Integrated Network
View of
World
Markets
Home country
Market
Extension of
Resources
National and
resources
Global Markets Global Markets
Orientation Ethnocentric Ethnocentric Polycentric Mixed Geocentric
Key Assets Located in
home country
Core Centralised and
other dispersed
Decentralised
and self
sufficient
All in home country
except marketing or
sourcing
Dispersed,
independent and
specialized
Role of
country
units
Single country Adapting and
leveraging
competencies
Exploiting local
opportunities
Marketing or
sourcing
Contribution to
company
worldwide
Knowledge Home centred Created at centre
and transferred
Retained within
operating units
Marketing
developed jointly
and shared
All functions
developed jointly
and shared