Towards International and Transnational Management

International organizations will have to integrate the culture’s values in which they are working in. Other countries norms may not fall under the assumption that employees can seek responsibility. There are countries who view their leadership as royalty and that norm carries over to their business. Management and employees may not be able to socialize as easily as American based business. This would create a gap in the employee’s ability to integrate their creativity and use their imagination. Countries like China, who have multiple factory “sweatshop”

It also requires more of an investment and commitment by the international company which creates a higher risk. There is also the down side of having difficulty managing local resources.

The internationalisation process of the firm has been a subject, which has been motive of study for a number of

The business internationalise means a company’s production and business activity are not only confined to one country, but also integrate the different countries’ raw material and labour and technologies to

Challenge of Globalization W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATE had been expending their business in more than 30 over country; there are Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, Central America, North America and South America, leading manufacturer of thousands of advanced technology products for the electronics, industrial, fabrics and medical markets. With the employees of 9.500 people around the world, managing the people also bring along the trouble as well. With the diversity of culture, people, background, language and norms, challenges and problems occur within the company and beyond the boundaries of the company. This is the major problems that will occur when a company goes global and expanding to the world. This challenge of globalization

Transnational organizations also have flexible and ever-changing structures. Their managers incorporate innovation and strategies for the corporation as a whole. Unification and coordination goals are achieved by corporate culture, shared values, vision, and management style. It offers a high level of differentiation, while ensuring that a global organization can coordinate activities and transfer knowledge across various functional areas and geographies (Daft, 2010).

Considering the conducted research and analysis, it can be clearly seen that the international strategy is not effective, that is why, needs to be fixed. Moreover, the company has a success in the local market, so it may be reasonable to put the efforts to promote inside the country.

Communication is such an important part of everyone’s daily life, not only in one’s personal life but also in organizations. Also now a day, we are becoming every year more and more global and working with different countries and cultures around the world. Henceforward, globalization is increasing, which makes communication a very important part of doing business internationally.

Many companies today want to expand their business to the international business, which can bring cost down and profits up. Taking a business internationally means knowing the rules and regulations of the countries you are entering. There can be many issues with going global which include cultural barriers, diversity issues, multicultural issues, political issues, and economical issues. It is very important to know how important expansion is to the company and what implications will come from going global.

If the product is not doing good in the home country, why we should try to go global? May be some boss may think the foreign country will be adopting the product better compare to the home country, and I think this is wrong. The Product is the company’s core.

A value chain is a chain of activities that a firm operating in a specific industry performs in order to deliver a valuable product or service for the market. The concept comes from business management and was first described and popularized by Michael Porter (Porter, 2013)

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The most challenging decision that a company may face in internationalization is the degree of standardization or adaptation in its operations. The question of standardization or adaptation affects all avenues of a business’ operations, such as R&D, finance, production, organizational structure, procurement, and the marketing mix. Whether a company chooses to standardize or adapt its operations depends on its attitudes toward different cultures. These attitudes are defined by three orientations toward foreign culture: ethnocentric, polycentric, and geocentric.

Increase Sales: - if a business succeeds in the US, going international will likely improve the overall revenue. Approximately 96% of the world’s population lives outside of the United State and 90% of the world’s population do not speak English, that suggest that customer is global and if a business has to look beyond the end of the domestic market, you have real upside potentials

The practical studies focus on identifying that internationalization was regular or incremental process .The internationalization process is study focusing on attitudes and behaviors of firms in market that are in the process of internationalization. The practical studies focus on identifying that internationalization was regular or incremental process. Some observations are also made on de-internationalization that point towards the flexibility seen in the duration of the internationalization process.