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International Strategy:
Creating Value in
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Global Markets
Strategic Management: Text and Cases, 4e Copyright 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
Factors Affecting
a Nations Competitiveness
Factor conditions
- Nations position in factors of production
Skilled labor
Infrastructure
Demand conditions
- Nature of home-market demand
Industrys product
Industrys service
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Factors Affecting
a Nations Competitiveness
Factor Conditions
Demand Conditions
Example
Question
Potential Risks of
International Expansion
Example
Risk Rankings
Potential Risks of
International Expansion
Currency risks
- Currency exchange fluctuations
- Appreciation of the U.S. dollar
Management risks
- Culture
- Customs
- Language
- Income levels
- Customer preferences
- Distribution system
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International Strategy
Global Strategy
Global Strategy
Disadvantages
- Concentration on scale-sensitive resources and activities in
one or few locations leads to higher transportation and tariff
costs
- Activity is isolated from targeted markets
- The rest of the firm becomes dependent on that
geographically isolated location
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Multidomestic Strategy
Transnational Strategy
Transnational Strategy
Question