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Views on Globalization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔New, Evolutionary, and Pendulum
"New" view on globalization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A force sweeping through the
world in recent times.
"Evolutionary" view on globalization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A long-run historical
evolution since the dawn of human history
"Pendulum" view on globalization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔One that swings from
one extreme to another from time to time
,Foreign Direct Investment - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Direct investment in, control,
and management of value-added activities in other countries
Political views on FDI - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Radical View, Free Market View,
Pragmatic Nationalism
Benefits to a country receiving FDI - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Capital Inflow,
Technology Spillover, Advanced Management Know-How, Job creation
Costs to a country receiving FDI - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Loss of Sovereignty,
Adverse effects on competition,
Capital outflow.
How do resources and capabilities influence the competitive dynamics of a
business? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Resource similarity and market commonality
can yield a powerful framework for competitor analysis.
Resource similarity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The extent to which a given competitor
possesses strategic endowment comparable, in terms of both type and
amount, to those of the focal firm.
, How does resource similarity impact competitive dynamics? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Firms with a high degree are likely to have similar competitive actions.
(Starbuck's instant coffee & McDonald's iced coffee)
Classical theories of international trade - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Mercantilism,
Absolute advantage, and Comparative advantage
Modern theory view - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Dynamic
Classical theory view - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Static
Absolute advantage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The economic advantage one nation
enjoys that is superior to other nations
Comparative advantage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The advantage one economic
activity nation enjoys in comparison with other nations (relative, not
absolute)
Mercantilism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A theory that suggests that the wealth of the
world is fixed and that a nation that exports more and imports less will be
richer.
Features of the product life cycle? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔New, Maturing, and
Standardized
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Views on Globalization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔New, Evolutionary, and Pendulum
"New" view on globalization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A force sweeping through the
world in recent times.
"Evolutionary" view on globalization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A long-run historical
evolution since the dawn of human history
"Pendulum" view on globalization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔One that swings from
one extreme to another from time to time
,Foreign Direct Investment - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Direct investment in, control,
and management of value-added activities in other countries
Political views on FDI - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Radical View, Free Market View,
Pragmatic Nationalism
Benefits to a country receiving FDI - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Capital Inflow,
Technology Spillover, Advanced Management Know-How, Job creation
Costs to a country receiving FDI - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Loss of Sovereignty,
Adverse effects on competition,
Capital outflow.
How do resources and capabilities influence the competitive dynamics of a
business? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Resource similarity and market commonality
can yield a powerful framework for competitor analysis.
Resource similarity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The extent to which a given competitor
possesses strategic endowment comparable, in terms of both type and
amount, to those of the focal firm.
, How does resource similarity impact competitive dynamics? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Firms with a high degree are likely to have similar competitive actions.
(Starbuck's instant coffee & McDonald's iced coffee)
Classical theories of international trade - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Mercantilism,
Absolute advantage, and Comparative advantage
Modern theory view - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Dynamic
Classical theory view - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Static
Absolute advantage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The economic advantage one nation
enjoys that is superior to other nations
Comparative advantage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The advantage one economic
activity nation enjoys in comparison with other nations (relative, not
absolute)
Mercantilism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A theory that suggests that the wealth of the
world is fixed and that a nation that exports more and imports less will be
richer.
Features of the product life cycle? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔New, Maturing, and
Standardized
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