Unit 5: International Business
Learning Aim A: Explore the international context for business operations
Learning Aim B: Investigate the international economic environment in which business
operates
A.P1: Explain why two businesses operate in contrasting markets
A.P2: Explain the types of finance available for international businesses.
B.P3: Explain the main features of globalisation that affect two contrasting businesses
B.P4: Explore the role of trading blocs on international trade
A.M1: Analyse the support that is available to contrasting businesses that operate
internationally.
B.M2: Analyse the barriers to two contrasting businesses of operating internationally
AB.D1: Evaluate the impact of globalisation on a business
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, A.P1: Explain why two businesses operate in contrasting markets
ExportP1
Amazon is an exporting business where it’s a website where many sellers that can either be an
individual or a company that will sell their products and Amazon will earn retail sales from it, other
methods of earning money are selling ads, subscriptions where consumers will have a special
privilege of having a free tomorrow delivery regardless of the amount they have spent in their order.
They are also a multinational enterprise due to having numerous headquarters across the globe,
delivering goods and services.
Whereas Volkswagen is also an exporting business as they have many cares exported all across the
globe because for the business to generate a lot of sales to continue manufacturing the cars
Volkswagen makes, they must be able to have enough money to source raw materials. Therefore,
they would sell cars globally which countries like China would account for 50% of Volkswagen’s
global sales as of 2021.
Import
Amazon does not import goods and services as more than half of the products that they sell are all
done by third party (e.g., individual and manufacturers) meaning that Amazon does not have to go
out of their way to source goods and services as it will increase the expenditure of the business. It is
statically proven that 78% of Amazon sellers work with suppliers in China because of having cheaper
raw materials and lower cost of production and its labour from China. As a result, it is very profitable
to import goods from China that has low cost of production and low GDP which developed countries
can take advantage of, as they will have a higher GDP than China that can allow them to source even
more goods (e.g., 10 dollars is equivalent 71 Chinese yuan).
On the other hand, Volkswagen is an importing business as they will primarily look for countries that
they can operate in that will not have much impact to their finances such as operating in China
where the costs of production is low as they produce a large volume of units that will lead the cost
of per unit priced low, cheaper labour as there is still a significant number of people in poverty and
raw materials will be low because of market dominance in raw materials responsible for half of
global supply of raw materials.
Multinational enterprise
Amazon is multinational enterprise because to become more successful as a business they will need
to broaden their brand so that they will be able export more goods and services by being able to
have multiple headquarters operating at once around the world. Therefore, this will allow Amazon
to have a further increase in sales revenue which they can then use to expand their business by
investing heavily on technology so that users will be able to easily access their website and
comfortably use to shop for basket of goods regardless of how experienced you are with technology.
Whereas Volkswagen is a multinational enterprise because to become a successful vehicle
manufacturing business they will have to branch out their brand to create enough sales revenue to
remain operational and as well as having enough inflow to create new vehicles according to the
latest trends of cars to meet consumer demands. Therefore, they would require having many
production plants as the time needed to create a vehicle takes a lot of time but highly profitable if it
gets sold. Hence, the reason why they would need many plants so that they will be able to generate
a lot of more vehicles in different variety of models (golf, polo, Passat, etc) that would then be sent
off to be sold.
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Learning Aim A: Explore the international context for business operations
Learning Aim B: Investigate the international economic environment in which business
operates
A.P1: Explain why two businesses operate in contrasting markets
A.P2: Explain the types of finance available for international businesses.
B.P3: Explain the main features of globalisation that affect two contrasting businesses
B.P4: Explore the role of trading blocs on international trade
A.M1: Analyse the support that is available to contrasting businesses that operate
internationally.
B.M2: Analyse the barriers to two contrasting businesses of operating internationally
AB.D1: Evaluate the impact of globalisation on a business
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, A.P1: Explain why two businesses operate in contrasting markets
ExportP1
Amazon is an exporting business where it’s a website where many sellers that can either be an
individual or a company that will sell their products and Amazon will earn retail sales from it, other
methods of earning money are selling ads, subscriptions where consumers will have a special
privilege of having a free tomorrow delivery regardless of the amount they have spent in their order.
They are also a multinational enterprise due to having numerous headquarters across the globe,
delivering goods and services.
Whereas Volkswagen is also an exporting business as they have many cares exported all across the
globe because for the business to generate a lot of sales to continue manufacturing the cars
Volkswagen makes, they must be able to have enough money to source raw materials. Therefore,
they would sell cars globally which countries like China would account for 50% of Volkswagen’s
global sales as of 2021.
Import
Amazon does not import goods and services as more than half of the products that they sell are all
done by third party (e.g., individual and manufacturers) meaning that Amazon does not have to go
out of their way to source goods and services as it will increase the expenditure of the business. It is
statically proven that 78% of Amazon sellers work with suppliers in China because of having cheaper
raw materials and lower cost of production and its labour from China. As a result, it is very profitable
to import goods from China that has low cost of production and low GDP which developed countries
can take advantage of, as they will have a higher GDP than China that can allow them to source even
more goods (e.g., 10 dollars is equivalent 71 Chinese yuan).
On the other hand, Volkswagen is an importing business as they will primarily look for countries that
they can operate in that will not have much impact to their finances such as operating in China
where the costs of production is low as they produce a large volume of units that will lead the cost
of per unit priced low, cheaper labour as there is still a significant number of people in poverty and
raw materials will be low because of market dominance in raw materials responsible for half of
global supply of raw materials.
Multinational enterprise
Amazon is multinational enterprise because to become more successful as a business they will need
to broaden their brand so that they will be able export more goods and services by being able to
have multiple headquarters operating at once around the world. Therefore, this will allow Amazon
to have a further increase in sales revenue which they can then use to expand their business by
investing heavily on technology so that users will be able to easily access their website and
comfortably use to shop for basket of goods regardless of how experienced you are with technology.
Whereas Volkswagen is a multinational enterprise because to become a successful vehicle
manufacturing business they will have to branch out their brand to create enough sales revenue to
remain operational and as well as having enough inflow to create new vehicles according to the
latest trends of cars to meet consumer demands. Therefore, they would require having many
production plants as the time needed to create a vehicle takes a lot of time but highly profitable if it
gets sold. Hence, the reason why they would need many plants so that they will be able to generate
a lot of more vehicles in different variety of models (golf, polo, Passat, etc) that would then be sent
off to be sold.
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