International Business And Management Of A Multinational Corporation

Canon Inc. is a Japanese multinational corporation that specializes in the manufacture of imaging and optical products, including cameras, photocopiers, steppers and computer printers. Its headquarters are located in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.[2]

Business management is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Globalization in short, points to the whole effort towards making the world global community as a one village. Globalization on business management is interconnection of international markets and managing businesses in a global industry. This includes foreign investments whereby a company expands its business and invest in foreign countries.

At the same time, business risks connected with the international transactions increase. Many companies become insolvent.

This essay intends on analysing the way in which Starbucks attempted to enter the Australian market place through international management stratagies. International management is the practice of managing business operations in more than one country. International Management professionals are familiar with the language, culture, economic and political environment, and business practices of countries in which multinational firms actively trade and invest. In a world of globalisation, becoming a multi national corporation is almost necessary to succeed as Globalization is reshaping our modes of thinking and ways of behaving and fostering cultural change in societies Fang (2009) .First this essay will discuss the challenges and issues of international management that Starbucks encountered when trying to globalise. Secondly this essay will look at the factors that have led to Starbucks encountering such issues of international management. Thirdly this essay will discuss the strategies that multinational corporations can adapt to deal with the problems they may experience. The main issues that this essay will discuss are the cultural differences between Australian and American markets in which Starbucks had to deal with, Starbucks failure to create brand value, the communication differences and the strategies and entry modes that Starbucks used along with their business strategy.

International business contains all business transactions private and governmental, sales, investments, logistics, and transportation that happen between two or more regions, nations and countries beyond their political limits. Generally, private companies undertake such transactions for profit governments undertake them for profit and for political reasons. It refers to all those business activities which involve cross border transactions of goods, services, resources between two or more nations. Transaction of economic resources includes capital, skills, and people. for international production of physical goods and services such as finance, banking, insurance, and construction.

Each year, many companies resort to or consider expanding abroad. Sensing a need for guidance, a number of authors have written and expressed their opinion on what it takes to succeed when expanding a business overseas. Lists of suggestions and tips on how to deal with issues such as culture as well as the laws in target countries have been made available to businesses. The following research articles were reviewed to obtain some knowledge of the factors that need to be considered when expanding a business internationally. The issues examined involve culture, foreign laws regulation, political risks, as well as market structure and competition. Based on this literature review, we were able to give profound advice on whether the company should actually consider expanding the business to Europe.

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The study of the internationalisation of emerging market multinationals (EMNCs) has gained prominence in the last two decades, as a result of increased internationalisation of firms from emerging markets (EM). These internationalisation phenomena have resulted in a surge of interest from international business (IB) scholars (Cavusgil,1980; Hoskisson, Eden, Lau, & Wright, 2000; Jormanainen & Koveshnikov, 2012). This surge in EMNCs internationalisation is due to the economic growth and transformation witnessed among the emerging markets (EM) in the same period. A critical observation of extant literature shows however, that multinationals from Asia and Latin America has dominated the study of EMNCs internationalisation (Child and Rodriguez, 2005; Yeoh, 2011; Fortanier & Tulder, 2009; Sim, 2005,). Others include that of Olaya, Olaya and Cueter (2012) of 5 Latin American countries, while, Cyrino, Barcellos & Tanure (2010) study Brazil, Eren-Erdogmus, Cobanoglu, Yalcın & Ghauri (2010) study Turkish retail firms and Bianchi, (2014) that of Chilean firms. While some Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) firms have also emerged as high profile multinationals and internationalising. Research on Sub-Saharan Africa emerging market firms from countries such as Nigeria, Kenya and South African, Angola and Ghana are lacking in the internationalisation business research and policy debate (Adeleye, White, & Boso, 2016).

This report came about through a request from the CEO to evaluate the economic forces driving a multinational corporation. The analysis was performed on the trade policies and economic variables that are impacting the worldwide operations of Coca-Cola from a tactical and strategic perspective. The six research areas contained in this report reflect:

Transaction cost theory of a firm was developed by Ronald Coase. Transaction cost refers to the cost of providing for some services and goods through a market than from within the firm. In order to carry out market transactions it is of essence to determine the people to deal with, to draw up the contract, to conduct negotiation leading to bargains, to undertake the inspection needed to make sure the terms of contracts are being observed as well as drawing up the contract. Course observes that the relationship between firms is governed by market prices are created on a basis that is different from protein maximization. Decisions in the firms are developed through entrepreneurial coordination. The paper will review the empirical literature based on transaction cost theory for a firm’s vertical transaction (Coase, 1937).

With a population of 48 million, South Africa represents 10 per cent of Africa’s population and 45 per cent of the continent’s gross domestic product (GDP). Its GDP is almost as big as the rest of sub-Saharan Africa’s 47 countries combined. As the engine of growth for Africa, South Africa recently has been growing at 5 per cent annually. It is the largest economy in Africa, and is among the top-ten emerging economies. Before 1994, South Africa had been ruled by a white minority government that earned notoriety for its apartheid (racial segregation) policy.

Although the multinational is separated in several nations, it remains as a single enterprise and therefore must consider how to balance competitive pressures for differentiation and integration (Lawrence and Lorsch, 1967). Multinationals must decide how to be sensitive to the unique demands of the indigenous environment without inhibiting their ability to coordinate the internal operations of local units in search of global strategies. As these issues of differentiation and integration are often facilitated by HRM activities, they represent a critical component in the IHRM. An example of this dual focus is found in most multinational corporations based on international business, which tend to assign primary responsibility to their subsidiaries for local compensation and benefits, training and labour relations, with regional units assuming secondary responsibility (Reynolds 1992). Productive globalization occurred with the growth and expansion of multinationals. They are present in all the countries of the world and currently undergo mergers and acquisitions, with the expansion of its branch of activity.

Multinational Corporation can be defined as a corporation that has its facilities and other assets in at least one

The three major segments which are operated by the Walmart primarily are Sam 's Club, Walmart U.S and a distinct division for Internationalisation that is Walmart International. There is also a great expansion of the company business through e-commerce (Walmart, n.d. B). Today the Company is operating with three extensive product categories units internationally: Wholesale stores, Retail centres and others. These categories are composed of numerous format including discount stores, retail websites, supermarkets, hypermarkets, apparel stores and restaurants (Walmart, n.d. C).

Today, telecommunication is one of the major parts of life. Nowadays, the phone is not only used for making calls, among many other functions it’s used for communicating through text-messages and so called multi-media messages, as well as to connect us to the internet. The opportunities that lie in the telecom