BUSI 3703 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade, Emerging Markets, International Business
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The formulation of strategies and management systems to take advantage of international opportunities and respond to international threats. A multinational company is any company that engages in business functions beyond its domestic borders. Most multinational companies (mncs) are multinational corporations. Globalization: the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld"s e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)ies a(cid:396)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g borderless and interlinked. Companies are no longer limited by their domestic boundaries and may conduct any kind of business activity anywhere in the world. Globalization creates a changing, but not uniform, and not always stable, environment for business. Developed countries (the arrived) have mature economies with substantial per capita (gdp), international trade and investments e. g. , the united. Developing countries (the arriving) have economies that have grown extensively over past two decades e. g. , Transition economies are countries that have changed from mostly communist systems to market/capitalistic systems e. g. , the czech republic, hungary, poland, Emerging markets are those countries whose economies are growing rapidly e. g. , brazil, russia, india, The world trade organization and free trade areas.