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Module -2
Introduction:-
International growth strategies are
Global Strategy-
International Strategy-
.
Transnational Strategy-High pressures for cost
reductions, High pressures for local Responsiveness.
Multidomestic Strategy-
consequences involved,
be appreciated
Geographical dispersion will involve more
encounters with national cultures and
languages,
• Functions,
• Global Integration
– Physical distance
• US-Universalistic
• Trade barriers
• Business advantages of responsiveness
• Wider appeal
• Competitiveness
• credibility
• Localization in people management
• Cultural issues
• National regulations
Understanding diversity
• Retention
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Specific Challenges –
Localisation
Disadvantage:
◦ Competitors get low cost route to technology and markets.
Types of alliance
• Contractual agreements
• Strategic framework
Planning and negotiating alliances
Staffing criteria
• Negotiation training
• Recruitment target
• Training delivered
• Implementing alliances
• Managing the interface with parent
• Reward systems
• Reinforcement
Staffing alliance
Number and skill mix of employees
Who does manpower planning
Who will recruit
Which positions from which partner
Which positions for expatriates
How to resolve staffing conflicts
Supporting learning alliance
Supporting alliance learning
• Cooperative role
• Economies of scale in tangible assets (e.g., plant and
equipment)
• Upstream-downstream division of labor among partners
• Fill out product line with components or end products
provided by supplier
• Limit investment risk when entering new markets or
uncertain technological fields via shared resources
• Create a ―critical mass‖ to learn and develop new
technologies to protect domestic,
• strategic industries
• Assist short-term corporate restructurings by
lowering exit barriers in mature or declining
industries
• Competitive role