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This document offers a fully verified and detailed collection of 170+ exam questions and answers for D311 Exam 2, tailored to the 2025/2026 academic year. The content is ideal for university students studying International Business, Global Strategy, or enrolled in MBA-level global operations and multinational enterprise (MNE) management courses. The Q&A format enables fast learning, structured revision, and real-world application of international business strategy frameworks. The material covers the following key areas: Strategic Foundations: Vision, mission, strategy definitions, and the role of core competencies Value Creation: Cost leadership, differentiation, value chain analysis, primary vs. support activities Global Strategy Models: Integration-Responsiveness (IR) Grid, localization, international, global, and transnational strategies Entry Strategies & Market Selection: Exporting (direct vs indirect), FDI (greenfield, acquisition), licensing, franchising, scanning & country analysis Collaborative Structures: Joint ventures, management contracts, equity alliances, countertrade Organizational Design: Centralization vs decentralization, functional/divisional/global matrix structures, neoclassical models (virtual orgs, networks) Control Mechanisms: Bureaucratic, market, and clan controls, plus coordination by standardization, plan, and mutual adjustment Export & Import Logistics: EMCs, ETCs, freight forwarders, 3PLs, customs brokerage Designed for business undergraduates, MBA students, and global business instructors, this document functions as both a study guide and a mock exam resource, aligned with real-world applications of international business theory and MNE strategic planning. Keywords: D311 exam 2025, international business strategy, global integration, localization strategy, FDI modes, joint ventures, core competencies, IR grid, value chain management, organizational design, exporting importing, freight forwarding, global market entry, transnational strategy

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Core competency - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o Special outlook, skill, or technology

that, by synthesizing links between resources and capabilities, sets and

sustains the firm's ability to create superior value for its customers.


Strategy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o An integrated and coordinated set of

commitments and actions that reflects the company's present situation,

identifies the direction it should go, and determines how it will get there.


Vision - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a future-oriented declaration of its purpose and

aspirations, outlines its broad ambitions.

Inspires people to dream

,Mission - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔communicates what the MNE is going to do, why

it's going to do that, and the general approach to doing so.


Unattractive industry - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o One in which perfect competition

drives down overall profitability


Attractive industry - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o One in which short-term imperfect

competition lets companies earn above-average, risk-adjusted returns


Firm conduct - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o Refers to the choices a company makes

regarding research, manufacturing, marketing, distribution, and the like that

influence its profitability


Resources - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o Inputs into an MNE production process


Capability - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o The capacity for resources to perform an

activity in an integrated manner


Value - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o The measure of a firm's capability of selling what it

makes for more than the costs incurred in making it


Cost leadership - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o Strategy aims to make a product at a

given level of quality for a cost below those of competitors

o Disruptive technologies changes efficiency standards

, o Customer's needs change


o Cheaper, better products from rivals - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔What are several

risks of the cost leadership strategy?


Differentiation strategy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o Champions developing products

that customers value and that rivals find hard, if not impossible, to match or

copy

o Customers' expectations change

o Customers no longer see sufficient value to justify the price premium

o A rival introduces a newer, cooler, higher-performing alternative


o Counterfeits that offer a cheaper imitation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔What are

some of the risks of the differentiation strategy?


Value chain - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o The set of linked activities the company

performs to design, make, market, distribute, and support a product


Primary activities - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o Represent the core business functions

that make and move products




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