IB818P-International Business

1.Take a company of your choice (which could be your own organisation) and consider what capabilities are necessary to internationalise, and the trade-offs that may emerge, when considering different modes of entry into high risk and low risk countries.

2.Critically discuss how the characteristics of the host country environment influence the internationalisation decisions of the firm? Justify your argument with relevant examples.

3.Are the internationalisation strategies of MNEs from developed and emerging markets becoming similar? Justify your answer with examples.

4.What is the role of alliances and joint ventures in an increasingly challenging and competitive international environment? Can they provide firms with the necessary capabilities to internationalise faster? Justify your answer with examples.

5.Take a company of your choice (which could be your own organisation) which has failed to perform in an international market and decided to divest its operations and exit the market. What went wrong? What are the lessons to be learned for other MNEs