International business: List of sample exam questions

1. International business within the system of international economic relations.

2. Foreign economic activity of an organization (enterprise) and international
business: common features and differences.
3. International business: nature, forms, specifics, role.
4. Classification criteria for foreign markets.
5. Strategies for entering international markets.
6. The Ansoff Matrix.
7. Organizational and legal forms of international business.
8. Main forms and goals of corporate integration in international business.
9. Integrated corporate structures in international business.
10.Holding as a form of organization for TNCs.
11.Vertically integrated companies.
12.Forms of international strategic alliances.
13.Classification of obligations.
14.Grounds for obligations.
15.Principle of autonomy of the will of the parties.
16.Ways to secure obligations.
17.Inter-firm agreements in international business.
18.Contracts for the international sale of goods.
19.Contracts for the international delivery of goods.
20.Forms of foreign trade operations.
21.Export operations.
22.Import operations.
23.Logistics as a process of planning, organization, control and management of
flows.
24.Domestic and international logistics.
25.Froms and functions of logistics.
26.Rules of logistics.
27.The concept of international cargo transportation and its types.
28.International rail transport.
29.International road transport.
30.International air transport.
31.International shipping.
32.International pipeline transport.
33.Economic assets, their content and specifics.
34.Principles and features of asset classification used in global business
practice.
35.Characteristics of financial assets, tangible assets, intangible assets, as well
as bank assets, cash assets, company assets, fund assets, international assets
and others.
36.Asset management in international business.
37.Foreign investment as the main condition for international business,
economic growth and sustainable development.
38.International practice of investment promotion and mutual protection
agreements.
39.National interests and the mechanism of their protection.
40.International investment. Aspects of the investment mechanism.
41.National practice of implementation of investment agreements.
42.Legal regime of foreign investments.
43.Investment agreement (contract): its concept, parties, types.
44.Essential conditions of the investment agreement (contract) , the mechanism
of its conclusion and implementation.
45.Priority investment project and its cycle.
46.The nature and features of industrial cooperation.
47.Industrial cooperation classifications according to the criteria chosen by
UNIDO and UNCTAD.
48.The cooperative nature of the international business relations and, in
particular, the international scientific, industrial, technological and
commercial activities. The specifics of the use of industrial assets.
49.Joint entrepreneurship as a form of international business.
50.Principles for identifying the 1st and the 2nd levels (forms) of joint
entrepreneurship.
51.Outsourcing, its content and forms.
52.The concept of risk in economic activity.
53.The system of risks in international business.
54.Risk management in international business.
55.The concept of international business environment.
56.Similarities and differences between the international business environment
and the investment climate.
57.Business culture as a part of the business environment.
58.International business in the fuel and energy industry.
59.International business in the agricultural industry.
60.International business in the chemical industry.
61.International business in the metallurgical industry.
62.International business in the machine-building industry.
63.International transport.
64.International insurance business.
65.Foreign business activities of Russian companies, their volume,
geographical distribution, dynamics and development trends.
66.Methods used by Russian companies in order to enter foreign markets.
67.The problem of adapting to the business environment and culture of a a
foreign country.
68.Prospects for the development of Russian business in the global economic
space after Russia's accession to the WTO.
 International business: List of additional recommended sources
 Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat): Official website
(URL: www.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_main/rosstat/en/main/)
 Russia in Figures. 2017: Statistical Handbook
(URL: www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2017/rusfig/rus17e.pdf)
 Russian Statistical Yearbook. 2017: Statistical Handbook
(URL: http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2017/year/year17.pdf)
 Civil Code of the Russian Federation
(URL:
https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/rus_e/WTACCRUS48A5_LEG
_119.pdf)
 Tax Code of the Russian Federation
(URL:
https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/rus_e/WTACCRUS58_LEG_2.
pdf)
 Labour Code of the Russian Federation
(URL:
https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/rus_e/wtACCrus58_LEg_363.p
df
 Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation
(URL: http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/official_documents/-
/asset_publisher/CptICkB6BZ29/content/id/2542248)
 Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union
(URL: www.un.org/en/ga/sixth/70/docs/treaty_on_eeu.pdf)
 Federal Law №101-FZ “On the international treaties of the Russian
Federation”
(URL:
https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/rus_e/WTACCRUS58_LEG_82
.pdf)
 Federal Law №164-FZ “On the fundamental principles of state regulation of
foreign trade activity”
(URL:
 https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/rus_e/WTACCRUS58_LEG_24
4.pdf)
 Federal Law №63-FZ "On measures to protect the economic interests of
Russia in the implementation of foreign trade in goods"
(URL:
https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/rus_e/WTACCRUS58_LEG_19
6.pdf)
 Federal Law №4-FZ “On Coordination of international and foreign economic
relations of the subjects of the Russian Federation”
(URL:
https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/rus_e/WTACCRUS58_LEG_81
.pdf)
 Federal Law №5338-1 "On international commercial arbitration“
(URL:
http://www.arbitrations.ru/userfiles/file/Law/Arbitration%20acts/Russian%20
arbitration%20law_eng.pdf)
 Federal Law №160-FZ “On foreign investment in the Russian Federation”
(URL:
https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/rus_e/WTACCRUS58_LEG_41
.pdf)
 Federal Law №129-FL “On state registration of legal entities and
entrepreneurs”
(URL: http://www.legislationline.org/documents/action/popup/id/4376)
 Federal Law №209-FL “On development of small and medium enterprises in
Russian Federation”
(URL:
http://www.mfa.gov.ir/uploads/.‫قوانین_افتتاح_و_توسعه_تجارتهای_خرد_و_متوسط‬pdf)
 Federal Law №116-FZ "On special economic zones in the Russian
Federation“
(URL:
https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/acc_e/rus_e/WTACCRUS58_LEG_32
4.pdf)