COMM 374 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Technology Transfer, Organizational Culture
25 Nov 2012
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Class 2: drivers of international expansion and the challenge of distance. Technological advantage, a need to gain more local and regional market. Low labor and land costs, producing on a global scale. Government drivers at favourable financing rate) years. Administrative or political distance unfriendliness, and institutional weakness. Saturated market, strong growth in domestic consumption and export. Downstream customers have increasingly located production bases to s. e asia. Plenty of labor (and less costly) in thailand. Home government (export insurance guarantee allows export of french equipment. Host government (tax-free position for non-japanese foreign direct investors for 5. Absence of colonial ties, absence of shared monetary association, political. Actual geographic distance, physical remoteness, lack of sea or river access, size of. Geographic distance country, weak transportation links, climate differences. Economic distance resource, financial resources, human resources, infrastructure, and information or knowledge. Differences in consumer incomes, differences in costs and quality of; natural. Why is this useful to firm strategy? countries.
