MB0053 –International Business Management

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ASSIGNMENT

DRIVE	SPRING 2014
PROGRAM	MBADS/ MBAFLEX/ MBAHCSN3/ MBAN2 – SEM 4 PGDBMN/ PGDENMN/ PGDFMN/ PGDHRMN/ PGDHSMN/ PGDIB/ PGDISMN/ PGDMMN/ PGDOMN/ PGDPMN/ PGDROMN/ PGDSCMN/ PGDTQMN – SEM 2
SUBJECT CODE & NAME	MB0053 –International Business Management
BK ID	B1724
CREDITS	4
MARKS	60

Note: Answer all questions. Kindly note that answers for 10 marks questions should be approximately of 400 words. Each question is followed by evaluation scheme.

Q.1“Environment scanning is an important part of international business.” Explain your views on this statement and discuss what factors need to be scanned.

Ans :  Environmental scanning is one essential component of the global environmental analysis. Environmental monitoring, environmental forecasting and environmental assessment complete the global environmental analysis. The global environment refers to the macro environment which comprises industries, markets, companies, clients and competitors. Consequently, there exist corresponding analyses on the micro-level. Suppliers, customers and competitors representing the micro environment of a company are analyzed within the industry analysis.

Q.2 What is green field investment? Why is it considered as the best option for a developing country like India?

Ans : Green field investment :

A green field investment is the investment in a manufacturing, office, or other physical commerce-related structure or group of structures in an area where no previous facilities exist.

Greenfield investing is usually offered as an alternative to another form of investment, such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, or licensing agreements. Greenfield Investing is often mentioned in the context of Foreign Direct Investment. A related term to green field investment which is becoming popular is brown field investment, where a site previously used for business purposes, such as a steel mill or an oil refinery, is expanded or upgraded to achieve superior return.

A form of foreign direct green field investment is where a parent company starts a new venture in a foreign country by constructing new operational facilities from the ground up. In addition to building new facilities, most parent companies also create new long-term jobs in the foreign country by hiring new employees.

Q.3 Regional integration is helping the countries in growing their trade. Discuss this statement. Describe in brief the various types of regional integrations.

Ans :Regional integration :

Regional integration is a process in which states enter into a regional agreement in order to enhance regional cooperation through regional institutions and rules. The objectives of the agreement could range from economic to political to environmental, although it has typically taken the form of a political economy initiative where commercial interests have been the focus for achieving broader socio-political and security objectives, as defined by national governments. Regional integration has been organized either via supranational institutional structures or through intergovernmental decision-making, or a combination of both.

Q.4 Write short note on:

a) Foreign subsidiary structure

b) international matrix structure

Ans : a) meaning of Foreign subsidiary structure

A partially or wholly owned company that is part of a larger corporation with headquarters in another country. Foreign subsidiary companies are incorporated under the law's of the country it is located. A company whose voting stock is more than 50% controlled by another company, usually referred to as the parent company or holding company. A subsidiary is a company that is partly or completely owned by another company

b) meaning of international matrix structure

Matrix structure is defined as a type of management system in which workers report to more than one person, effectively having two or more supervisors at the same time. This can be illustrated by the example of a project environment, where professionals with different types of expertise are brought together to work on a projects. They report to a number of managers of different projects, as well as to a functional supervisor. The idea is to share knowledge and personnel to maximize effectiveness.

Q.5 Explain the Top-down and Bottom-up approach of planning.

Ans : Top-down and bottom-up are both strategies of information processing and knowledge ordering, used in a variety of fields including software, humanistic and scientific theories and management and organization. In practice, they can be seen as a style of thinking and teaching.

Top down approach :

A top-down approach (also known as stepwise design and in some cases used as a synonym of decomposition) is essentially the breaking down of a system to gain insight into its compositional sub-systems. In a top-down approach an overview of the system is formulated, specifying but not detailing any first-level subsystems. Each subsystem is then refined in yet greater detail, sometimes in many additional subsystem levels, until the entire specification is reduced to base elements. A top-down model is often specified with

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