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Expanding globally is a great opportunity for American business owners to increase profits and growth within their company. Going global offers businesses the opportunity to experience the benefits of reducing dependency on a single market, while gaining market share in a foreign market. At this time, only about 10% of American business owner’s are involved in exporting their products to other countries. Although there are great opportunities in global expansion, careful consideration must be given before committing to an expansion of this magnitude. Expanding into a foreign country can be difficult because of cultural diversities and practices, regulation, consumer behavior, economic stability, and many other reasons. In order to properly evaluate the markets in other countries an in

Introduction International business comprises a large and increasing portion of the world’s total trade (Johnson et al., 1994; Czinkota et al., 1995). The growth of international business has gained momentum faster than previously recorded, outstripping domestic business (Daniels and Radebaugh, 1995). The impact of such growth on many companies is that they are now “rushing to become

Globalisation is the internationalization of trade and often forces businesses to adopt new strategies for operations to suit different cultures and economies. The often easily saturated domestic market has triggered many large

The article is divided into four parts. First part focuses on the traditional perspective on international marketing strategies focusing on the dichotomy between standardization and adaptation. The second part examines key assumptions underlying the philosophy of global standardization. The third part focuses on the constraints to implementation of global standardization. The last part of the article concludes on the bases of its review that a more general approach is suitable which incorporates various degrees of standardization or adaptation strategies. It is an important article as it concludes that an effective global marketing strategy does not guarantee the marketing of standardized products and global brands worldwide. It might work for some companies but cannot work for all.

When practicing international marketing, a company becomes more involved in local marketing environments than it does in export marketing.

Globalization refers to the establishment of worldwide operations and the development of standardized products and marketing. Companies are pushed to go global due to regional trading blocks, declining tariffs, the opportunity to open up new markets, and to take advantage of the information technology boom. E-commerce, in particular, has produced a commonality of taste worldwide and permitted instantaneous global marketing possible. Globalization has fostered and been aided by strategic alliances of rivals, suppliers and customers. The drawbacks to globalization are the riskier nature of going global due to the divergent needs of different cultures, the loss of a company's identity with its home country, a loss of flexibility and responsiveness, as well as the neglect of the need for differentiated products. Regionalization, then, would be less risky, more manageable, and have the ability to take advantage of local

Hill, C. (9th Edition), International Business, Competing in the Global Marketplace. (Global Edition) Mc Graw-Hill .

* Apply international marketing theories and consumer research to solve a range of contemporary marketing problems. * Understand the influence of variables such as price, promotion, product and distribution in global markets. * Evaluate global marketing activities * Identify country attractiveness of different global markets * Compare and contrast two markets for possible entry.

The global marketplace has witnessed an increased pressure from customers and competitors in manufacturing as well as service sector (Basu, 2001; George, 2002). Due to the rapidly changing global marketplace only

Marketing departments that operate in a global marketplace have to consider their products position amongst competitors and how they can effectively target consumers in an ever changing environment. Consumers have many choices and can demand higher expectations from the products that they purchase. Global competition has created an situation for organizations which has shorten their product lifecycles, increased the importance of quality, created more competition in pricing of products, and

The marketing industry has many ups and downs in addition to that global marketing is world wide it has brought many types of different foods, clothing, and furniture. Products that have universal demand would most likely be the most important meaning to most companies; these products have changed the world in many ways. Without global marketing mankind would most likely be at a stand still. “Communication is the very heart of marketing, and for years companies fashioned communication strategies based on print, radio and TV media to broadcast their message. But times are changing (Watson, 2000). Even so, with the Internet in this generation it

In attempt to better understand the field of marketing I read many articles by renowned scholars. However, two articles in particular caught my distinct attention. The first was by Michael Czinkota who researches international marketing issues at Georgetown University and the University at of Birmingham. International marketing has always intrigues me due to the professors that have expressed the need to become international due to globalization. Czinkota asked international executives on views of international marketing that brought up some enlightening terms to my mind. The first that spoke to me were opportunity and contentment. The article speaks about the opportunity that international marketers have to, “…unite the world with a better era of the human race as competitive cooperation supersedes the rules of total competition.” It is in the duty of international marketers to help nations with limited resources to overcome such inequalities and provide opportunities. The next was the term innovation in the sense of international marketing. This form of marketing allows for a rapid growth in innovation and thus further enhances prosperity for the people. Marketers can introduce a product to vast group of people at a rapid pace with use of international tools. Lastly was the description of fairness that is provoked through the use of international marketing in today’s world. With international marketing, the market has gained a better conscious for its products and how they

In this type of organization can be observed few characteristics of Weber’s theory such as a clear-cut division of labor, high level of specialization and the hierarchical authority applies to offices and positions of the organization.

Trade is increasingly global in scope today. There are several reasons for this. One significant reason is technological—because of improved transportation and communication opportunities today, trade is now more practical. Thus, consumers and businesses now have access to the very best products from many different countries. Increasingly

3. What is meant by Global Marketing Global marketing seems to be quite similar to international marketing at first glance. Although some authors state that both terms can be used interchangeably, there are a lot of differences between both terms when you analyze them in more detail. Due to marketing theories, international marketing was a stage in the evolution of global marketing. The Oxford University Press defines global marketing as "marketing on a worldwide scale reconciling or taking commercial advantage of global operational differences, similarities and opportunities in order to meet global objectives." It seems like international marketing only deals with the selling of products all over the world, but there are a lot of other aspects to it. For example, the marketing strategy or production of goods should be taken into consideration more