Gran Tierra Energy Inc.

Pecom, compañía petrolera de Argentina, desde sus inicios fue ganando terreno en la industria del petróleo avanzando a buen ritmo a través del paso de los años. Desde la obtención de su primera concesión, hasta el inicio de operaciones en diversos países sudamericanos, Pecom se fue consolidando como una empresa fuertemente integrada verticalmente.

Please answer the questions following each of the cases or problems. The assigned questions should be answered thoroughly in your own words in essay format and submitted using the on-line testing system at www.agu.edu. The level of writing should reflect the graduate level and the content should reflect a solid understanding of the subject matter.

Ownership advantages could be intangible assets like technology and information, managerial, marketing and entrepreneurial skills, organisational systems, access to intermediate or final goods markets, a production process, patent and blueprint. The ownership advantage includes some firm specific valuable market power or cost advantage on the firm sufficient to outweigh the disadvantages of doing business abroad. They are closely related to the technological and innovative capabilities and the economic development levels of source countries.

Husky Energy Inc. is a recognizable company to many Canadians. Most people just know it as “The Husky” and see it as just merely an oil company operated through North America. Although Husky Energy Inc. is centred in Alberta and Saskatchewan, it is a worldwide enterprise. “China, Greenland, and Libya” all have Husky Energy within their countries (Husky Energy Inc.). Now privately owned, the business value is at “28 billion as of October 2009” (Warnock, 1) and continues to growing exponentially. They are continuing expansion, becoming much more than a gas and oil supplier. They understand the changes are essential in being a successful corporation.

According to CS’s case, the firm’s strategy includes three aspects to be completive with peer firms. The first is innovation which is to attain substantial resource base through applying edged technologies. The second is control totally on the value chain for the sake of cost efficiency and goods quality assurance. The third concerned with diversity, this is to creating hedges among products classes and market regions. This strategy sounds quite “all round” but there is an issue that it needs relatively large amount of funds each year to attain it. As the technology require a high level of funds to support its technical research group and advanced equipment like new vessels and processing plants. It also needs fund to hire management expertise to monitor and manage on the firm’s value chain. And to dig new produce species and new market worldwide also needs vast funds. Therefore, CS needs to make sure it has sufficient funds yearly to attain its current strategy. Moreover CS will be unable to attain higher revenue if the firm over diversified its product and trading markets in hedging purpose. As the Canadian government controls severely on the seafood producing industry that limited each firm’s ability of seafood manufacturing (known as total allowable catch (TAC)). CS has to keep its product species diversification by acquiring other peer firms

Barney, J. (2004). Firm resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage. Strategy: Process Content Context: an international perspective, de Wit & Meyer , 285-292.

Corporate-level strategies are liable for market definition; they address the entire scope of the business. This strategy helps a business to diversify its service. It gives them direction in which geographic region they should operate and which service markets to strive in. “Thus, an effective corporate-level strategy creates, across all of a firm’s businesses, aggregate returns that exceed what those

Husky Energy Inc. is a recognizable company to many Canadians. Most people just know it as “The Husky” and see it as just merely an oil company that is operated through North America. Although Husky Energy Inc. is based in Alberta and Saskatchewan, it is a worldwide enterprise. “China, Greenland, and Libya” all have Husky Energy within their countries (Husky Energy Inc.). The now privately owned business is valued at “28 billion as of October 2009” (Warnock, 1) and is growing exponentially. They are continuing expansion, becoming much more than a gas and oil supplier. They understand the changes are essential in being a successful corporation.

Midland Energy Resources is a global energy company with operations in oil and gas exploration and production(E&P) providing a broad array of products and services to upstream oil and gas customers worldwide including refining and marketing (R&M), natural gas, and petrochemicals. Janet Mortensen, the senior vice president of project finance for Midland Energy Resources must determine the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for the company as a whole and each of its divisions

João Nogueira Batista, Chief Financial Officer of the Brazilian firm Petrobras, reflected on Gros’s words as he prepared for a Board of Directors meeting in July 2002. The main item on the Board’s agenda was the proposed acquisition of an Argentinean firm, the Perez Companc Group, or Pecom.2 The acquisition would significantly increase Petrobras’s oil and gas production and add to its oil reserves. It would also provide the mainly Brazilian-based

The superimposing factor that gives South Africa such an advantage over other prospective African business environments is that it possesses of a very powerful and sophisticated vantage-point geographically. South Africa is strategically located for manufacturing and exportation into several regions globally and can be an unmitigated platform for MNC’s who may be interested in a venture within this region. The important advantages include regional competitiveness, combined with reduced operational costs and a significantly prominent market access (Safrica.info, 2011).

We found innovation, cost reduction and market conditions as key elements supporting a successful internal strategy and strategic alliance and diversification to be among the most widely applied strategies for a foreign market penetration and development, while fusions and licenses were the least preferred.

With proven strategy and strong business model Rio Tinto Group approached the global market. Through a thorough study for the Group’s approach tointernationalize the operations and structure of its production groups, it is found that this approach suits the strategy set by the group to achieve its objectives in maximizing shareholders returns and creating opportunities for improving many communities in the global. Also, it is found that Rio Tinto developed a strong risk-management & decision-making processes that enabled the group to compete against the limitations on its trades & operations.

Subject : Appraisal of a MNE's recent market entry (2007-2010) ( 1. Firm Motivations for internationalization 2. Entry Strategy 3. Corporate Strategy)

It has core competency in its industry and has been in the International Strategy for long time. So, next opportunity would be for a Transnational Strategy following the incremental strategy where it should be focusing upon. In order to have it the Integration and Responsiveness should be high. It has successfully addressed the concerns related to CAGE framework by addressing the following concerns