Question 1: Why do international managers want to know what the unit labour costs in various countries?
Question 2: What are major foreign exchange exposures experienced by multi-national corporations. Identify the alternatives available to a firm to manage exchange exposures. What are the pros and cons of different alternatives for hedging foreign exchange exposures?
Question 3: What are the advantages and disadvantages of a global brand?
Question 4: Identify two strategies using interest rates futures and interest rates swaps that could reduce the interest rates risk to the firm and their use to manage interest risk.
Question 5 -Why would a firm entering new foreign markets be concerned about educational mix?
Question 6: A tariff is the most significant type of trade control, difference between tariff and non-tariff barriers with examples.
Question 7: What factors determine the attractiveness of a specific international market, in terms of growth, prospects and risk?
Question 8: Problems brain drain causes developing countries.
Question 9 : Geert Hofstede 5 cultural dimensions, international example of business with two dimensions?
Question 11: Write the Political, legal and economic effect for doing international business
Question 12: There are four basic strategies for completing a global market place including international, multi-domestic and global and translation. Select 2 strategies and
A Define
B. Provide an example
C. Discuss one benefit and one drawback for respective strategy
D. why would an organisation locate production facility of manufacturing product components and assembly in different countries.
In short: Write the strategies for competing in global market.
Question 13 List and describe the main approaches of New market entry?
Question 14: What are the main reasons for a company would expand internationally?
Question 15: What kinds of scale economies are possible in international market?