Individual Integrative Case Study: Pearl River's International Strategy

2. Imagine that you’re a South Korean fashion magnate looking to expand your line of designer clothing into America. You definitely want to establish a small chain of retail locations, and you’re considering moving your entire manufacturing operation to America. Examining factors of production, risk, inflow of innovation, and competitive advantage, is America a good foreign market to invest in? What strategy will you use to break into the American market from nearly 7,000 miles away?

1. High pressure for local adaptation combined with low pressure for lower costs would suggest what type of international strategy: A. global B. multidomestic C. transnational D. overall cost leadership 2. Foreign direct investment includes the following form of entry strategy: A. licensing B. franchising C. joint ventures D. exporting 3. According to Michael Porter, firms that have experienced intense domestic competition are A. unlikely to have the time or resources to compete abroad. B. most likely to design strategies aimed primarily at the domestic market. C. more likely to design strategies and structures that allow them to successfully compete abroad. D. more likely to demand protection from their governments.

In addition, the internationalisation is the strategy to occupy the foreign market step by step. Also, the porter’s competitive advantages theory is to analysis the strategies of global business. They could divide to three strategies: over cost leading, diversity, and market focus strategy (Passemard& Calantone, 2000). The cost leading strategy focus on establish efficient scale production facility and minimize the research and advertising cost. The diversity strategy focus on introduce some unique product in whole industry. But, this strategy will with a high cost price. The focus strategy is attack of a particular customer group or specialist regional market, its purpose to design the service for a particular target. Consequently, the companies need to consider the internal and external factor condition, such as: factor condition, demand condition, related and supporting industries condition, and firm strategy and rivalry. They are called diamond system. This dynamic system gives the company a standard to measure theirs advantage and disadvantage before they enter foreign market. Moreover, the specific advantage in Internationalisation of Production is give companies a new choose for exhausted market (Strange,S. 1992). In an international environment, the companies will face more uncertain and unequal condition than home market, therefore the companies need keep the attention of more factors:

In a time of global commerce, new business ventures can take on many forms. What used to be local or even national companies have become world-wide. International growth of a business can be extremely beneficial but is not without its challenges. Different countries have different peoples and different cultures - different ways of doing business altogether. If a venture is to be successful, these differences must be well understood.

Exporting has become a very important business strategy nowadays. In order for firms to expand to the international market, and also to maintain and grow their share of market in whatever industry they are in, depending on their goals and objectives, any company must at least explore this possibility. A few and important advantages might come into place, in that they can extend their sales potential of their existing products, increasing margins through a larger customer base. Also, these small to large businesses can consolidate by gaining global share of market, they can reduce their dependence on their existing markets,

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Rivers Integrated Care (RIC) is a primary care facility located in Phoenix Arizona. This clinic recently transitioned from an urgent care facility to an integrated primary care and emergency clinic. The goal of this transition is to become a patient-centered medical home and behavioral health facility. The clinic currently has a Behavioral Health Consultant, who is also the Site Administrator, Physician Assistant (PA) and a Primary Care Provider (PCP). The plan is to employ a full-time Psychiatrist to prescribe psychotic medication. Although employees of RIC consider this clinic a fully integrated facility. According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) integration assessment tool, the clinic is partially integrated.

Ischemic describes an inadequate blood flow. Therefore, TIA is a deprivation of blood to the brain for a short period of time.

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The need for a solid market entry decision is an integral part of a global market entry strategy. Entry decisions heavily influence the firm’s other marketing-mix decisions. Company can enter International Market with many ways, some of them are as follows:

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

The primary goal of this study is to examine the strategic goals of the Asian-Latin-American firm and it sentry into the European manufacturing sector and its goals in Research and Development and product development focused on becoming one of the top technological leaders in the industry. This firm hopes to use the technological knowledge gained from the investments in Europe to develop products and product processes in their home base and to use this to expand their exports to Europe and the U.S. This telecommunications device-manufacturing firm has an international joint venture with the leading German MNC in this industry. The German MNC is unhappy with the joint venture's performance due to what it holds as theft of intellectual property by it Asian/Latin American partner. Report on International Business Strategy. The industry in which the firm is situated must be identified and all of the primary industry-specific factors that may affect the selection of the Europe country. Institution and cultural factors affecting the selected industry and the industry-specific factors on organizational structure and control strategies must be identified.

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