Term Test Flashcards
(104 cards)
what are the two main barriers to globalization?
- SRC
- Ethnocentrism
What is SRC?
it means self reference criterion: one’s own cultural values, experiences, and knowledge as a basis for decisions
What does ethnocentrism mean?
ones own culture or company knows best how to do things
why do src and ethnocentrism affect globalization?
they impede the ability to assess a foreign market in its true light
What obstacles does SRC product?
- meanings, values, symbols and behaviour that are relevant to our own culture are different from those of foreign cultures
- relying on Src could produced inadequately adapted marketing
How do we avoid obstacles of globalization?
- define the goal in foreign-country cultural traits, habits, or norms
- isolate the src influence on the goal
- redefine the goal without the src influence
what is key to developing a global mindset?
- being tolerant of other cultures
- understanding such differences and accepting and working with others?
What kind of knowledge is good for globalization?
- cultures
- history
- market potential
- economic, social, and political trends
what is a pack shot?
it is a still or moving image of a product
- includes its packaging and labeling, used to portray the products reputation in advertising on TV or other media
what are the 5 stages of internationalization?
- no international marketing
- infrequent marketing
- frequent marketing
- international marketing
- global marketing
what is the EPRG strategy?
E: ethnocentric
P: polycentric
R: regional
G: global
what is the “no international marketing” stage
- not interested in going abroad
- doing so can be very risky
- can be the case if you are already making money in your own market
- cost of expansion into other markets is costly
- # 1 reason, your home market is not saturated
what is the infrequent marketing stage?
- start to receive orders or demand from abroad
- even though sales can have “low seasons” production can not decrease
- when there is less local demand, that is when you would export
what is the frequent marketing stage
- demand abroad has increased since you have begun infrequent marketing
- you begin to sell abroad on a regular basis
- focus is still local
- covers 1 to 2 foreign countries
what is the international marketing stage?
- starting to expand to >5 countries
- have to make product changes for different markets
- export or manufacture abroad
- license, franchise
what is the global marketing stage?
- treat markets in all countries the same
- no changes to products “universal appeal”
- iphone, coca-cola
what kind of product needs to change in many markets?
food offerings (mcdonalds)
what product needs seldom change, if not any
electronics (iPhone)
what stages would use an ethnocentric strategy ?
none or infrequent
what stages would use a polycentric strategy?
infrequent or frequent
- means more than one, many markets
what stages would use a regional strategy?
international
- can be thought of as a continent, region of countries
what stages would use a global strategy
global stage, global brands
- apple, samsung, coca-cola, nike, bmw
what are the parts of the international product life cycle?
- export
- foreign production
- foreign competition
- import
what is a one-way export?
- exporting a product
- not importing anything in return
- not simultaneous