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Course Introduction
International Corporate Strategy explores the frameworks, tools, and analytical approaches used by firms to compete successfully in global markets. The course covers key topics such as cross-border market entry, multinational organizational structures, international expansion strategies, and the management of global value chains. Students learn to assess the opportunities and challenges involved in international corporate operations, including the impact of cultural differences, political environments, and economic trends. The course emphasizes case studies and real-world scenarios, enabling students to develop strategic thinking and decision-making skills applicable to multinational corporations.
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Transnational Management Text Cases and Readings in Cross Border Management 7th Edition
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Chapter 1: Expanding Abroad: Motivations, Means, and Mentalities
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Q1) An MNE with a 'multinational mentality' will typically be managed as a coordinated federation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) If you had been the founder of Dunkin Donuts, would you have chosen to heavily rely on franchising, the strategy used by Rosenberg, as your entry mode to foreign countries? Or would you have chosen to rely on wholly owned subsidiaries as your foreign entry mode? Why?
Answer: Franchising. Franchising can help a company expand internationally faster than wholly owned subsidiaries. This mode does not require commitment of high amounts of resources to the foreign countries. Also this line of business would not require (1) substantial direct investment in foreign countries, (2) active management of these foreign assets, and (3) capability of the organization to leverage its strategic assets more effectively through its own subsidiaries than through contractual relations with outside parties.
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Chapter 2: Understanding the International Context:
Responding to Conflicting Environmental Forces
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Q1) A transnational industry is characterized by moderate national responsiveness and moderate global integration.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) A multinational industry is characterized by ____________.
A) low national responsiveness and low global integration
B) low national responsiveness and high global integration
C) high national responsiveness and low global integration
D) high national responsiveness and high global integration
Answer: C
Q3) What are the main forces that drive MNEs such as Nokia, the mobile communications company, to innovate and learn on a global scale?
A) Economic and political forces.
B) Political and social forces.
C) Social and informational forces.
D) Technological and informational forces.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Developing Transnational Strategies: Building
Layers of Competitive
Advantage
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Q1) Which of the following is not considered a source of global competitive advantage?
A) scale economies.
B) market leadership.
C) national differences in input or output markets.
D) scope economies.
Answer: B
Q2) According to an article in McKinsey Quarterly on June 2012 , about 40 percent of the growth of the global economy over the next 15 years will be generated in 400 midsized emerging-market cities. What are implications of this statement for MNEs in advanced and emerging economies?
Answer: The statement implies the increasing importance of cities especially in the emerging economies. This is the result both of the increase in the rate of urbanization in the world and the rise of some very large scale cities in the emerging economies. The size of the economy of some of these cities is larger than the whole economy of many countries. The implication for businesses is that they should go beyond having a country-level strategy, to a city level strategy (or a sub-national regional strategy).
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Chapter 4: Developing a Transnational Organization:
Managing Integration, Responsiveness, and Flexibility
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Q1) Which of the following describes the preferred sequencing of changes associated with implementing the typically more effective emerging change process model?
A) Change in individual attitudes and mentalities; then, change in interpersonal relationships and processes; and finally, change in the formal structure and responsibilities
B) Change in the formal structure and responsibilities; then, change in interpersonal relationships and processes; and finally, change in individual attitudes and mentalities
C) Change in interpersonal relationships and processes; then, change in the formal structure and responsibilities; and finally, change in individual attitudes and mentalities.
D) Change in individual attitudes and mentalities; then, change in the formal structure and responsibilities; and finally, change in interpersonal relationships and processes
Q2) In a transnational organization, knowledge is developed at the headquarters and transferred to foreign units.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Creating Worldwide Innovation and Learning:
Exploiting Cross Border Knowledge Management
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Q1) Company X is operating in a fast-changing, knowledge-intensive industry. The most feasible structure for its innovative processes is therefore central-to-global because that allows for a high degree of corporate control.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Traditionally, MNEs developed innovation processes that were either very centralized (resulting in center-for-global innovation), or very decentralized (resulting in local-for-local innovation.) More recently, companies have developed two transnational innovation models. Describe the new models and the advantages they have over the older approaches to innovation.
Q3) In transnational companies like Unilever, products, functions, and geographic regions are coordinated in a differentiated manner, accounting for the respective demands for integration and responsiveness.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Campbell Enterprises is an MNE in which local-for-local innovation is a priority. A new CEO wants to understand the conditions needed to make such innovations more effective, as well as your reasons for making such recommendations.
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Chapter 6: Engaging in Cross-Border Collaboration:
Managing across Corporate Boundaries
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Q1) A car manufacturer and a multinational computer technology corporation intend to combine their strengths to develop intelligent sound systems for cars. Assuming that both companies will have a moderate to high level of interaction, what would be the most suitable form of alliance to adopt?
A) The firms should develop an R&D consortium, combining teams from both companies.
B) The firms should create an equity joint venture, combining assets from both companies.
C) The firms should create a licensing agreement to exploit the new application.
D) The firms should develop production facilities to be shared between the partners.
Q2) The risks associated with collaboration are limited to the inability of both firms to agree on the terms of the partnership.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Equality between partners is essential, regardless of the governance structure.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Flexibility is often the key in a strategic alliance. Please comment.
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Chapter 7: Implementing the Strategy: Building
Multidimensional Capabilities
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Q1) As an information broker, the geographic (country) manager must understand the national culture well, and thereby decide how to modify the MNE's goals, strategies and values so that that they become appropriate for the local context.
A)True
B)False
Q2) To overcome the not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome that often prevails in international firms, which of the following techniques are not employed by the worldwide functional manager when facilitating the transfer of new ideas and innovations throughout the MNE
A) identifying best practices through informal contacts and formal evaluations.
B) replacing geographic (country) managers that resist the adoption of best practices.
C) arranging cross-unit visits and transfers.
D) hosting conferences and forming task forces.
Q3) The global business manager does not need to be located in the MNE's home country.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: The Future of the Transnational: An Evolving Global Role
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Q1) Progress in reducing global poverty has been observed to be more closely associated with investments by MNEs than it has with the foreign aid efforts of national governments and non-governmental organizations that have historically demonstrated a lack of business experience.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The World Bank estimates that approximately one-third of the world's population subsists on less than $2 per day.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following four adjectives are not typically used to describe the manner in which MNEs might respond to developing world needs:
A) transformative.
B) transactional.
C) exploitive.
D) compensatory.
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