Kafli 13 Flashcards
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PEST
Political
Economic
Sociocultrual
Technological
Liability of foreigness
A liability foreign firms face as the geographic, economic, cultrual or administrative diffrences between the foreign markets and the domestic market increase
Ethnocentrism bias
A bias indicating that customers prefer local brands over foreign brands and are willing to pay more for local brands even whean the quality is inferior
TRUE OR FALSE
Companies that pick foreign markets similar to there home markets are more likley to suceed
TRUE
Once a firms desiceds it will enter a foreign market it needs to choose the method it will use to do so, these methods can be devided into two categorys?
Non equity and equity modes
NON equity modes
Typically carry less risk but also bring fewer rewards, they include entry modes of
- Exporting
- Turnkey operations
- Licensing
- Franchising
Equity modes
Require a larger investment and engage the foreign firm in local operations. This increases the risk of the activity but also allows the firm to get close to customers and thus build better products, this includes these equidy modes
- Joint ventures
- Wholly owned subsidiaries
- Either greenfield projects or acquisitions
NON equity modes include
- Exporting
- Turnkey operations
- Licensing
- Franchisisng
Equity mdoes include
- Joint ventures
- Whooly owned subsidiaries
- Either greenfield projects or acquasisitons
Exporting
Exporting is the process of producing a good or service in one countrie and selling it in another country
What are the advantages of exporting
A key advantage of exporting is the associated low cost of entering a foreign market
What are the disatvantages of exporting
- Exports of goods and services are often subjects to import tariffs
Tarfiss
As tarfiss increases in a country the proftiability of exporting to that country decreses
Turnkey operations
In a turnkey protject a company builds a facility in a foreign market for a client, makes it operational and then hans over the “keyes” to the client, which will own and operate the facility
The advatages of turnkey
As en entry mode is that they enable foreign firms to enter technologicallly complex markets and politically sensitive enviroments
Disadvantages of using tunkey
That once the firm hands over the operations to the costumer it has no further financial intrest in the business
Licensing
Is a contractual agreement between two partys, known as the licensor and the licensee. That grants the licencee certain rights such as the right to produce or sell the licensors patend goods, display the licensors brand name or trademark
Advantages of licensing
The licensing firm takes on very little risk in entering foreign markets. It allows a company to grow quickly by levraging its brand or tech into new industreis and new locations. It allows compaies to enert geographic or product markets that are outside their own strategic goals. And help solve the problems of pricing a good across markets
Disadvantages of licensing
A licensor becomes one step removed from consumers and loses the opprutunity to get feedback directly from them. The agreements only provide limited control over the way in which the licensed brand is used
Franchising
Is a unique form of licensing in which a parteer called the franchisee is given the rights to use the franshisors brand and other intelectual property, while the franschisor takes an active role in the ongoing operations of the firm such as advertising, training staff and more
Advantages of franchising
Are two fold
1. The franchisor can seek global growth with limited financial risk yet maintain direct involevement with the franchise, thus it can learn directly from local markets and transfer that knowlage to other markets
- The franchiseor can benifit from flexibility in a licensing arrangement that enebles a franchisee to respond to local customer needs
Disadvantages of franchising
Finding suitible franchisees is one of the key challenges in franchising and to build a franchise intrest in foreign markets
Joint venture
An international joint venture is a new legal entity creaded and owned by two or more existing companies from diffrent countries. The parent companies can have very diffrent degrees of ownership in the joint venture ranging from 50/50 to 1/99 depending on there goal
Advatages for a joint venture
For the entering firm it reduces political risk, the opprutinuty to levrage local knowlage and share cost