MGT520 - International Business

Total Marks 5 Starting Date Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Closing Date Monday, January 27, 2020 Status Open Question Title Market entry strategies Question Description Due Date: January 27, 2020 Marks: 5 NOTE: There is no grace period in case of GDB LEARNING OBJECTIVE: The core objective of this activity is to make the students familiar with the importance of foreign market entry strategies in international business. LEARNING OUTCOMES: After this activity, students will become more aware that why companies opt different market entry strategies in international market. PREMISE: IKEA is a Swedish based global furniture retailer company since the early 90s. It sells innovative and economical furniture of Scandinavian design in 55 countries. “The slogan of IKEA is-“To create a better life for many people”. In 1998, IKEA started its first retail operations in Shanghai and soon expanded its retail stores with an average annual rate of increase .After the efforts of nearly 20 years, IKEA has opened 21 retail stores in China by the end of 2019, but according to IKEA some of areas (like small or medium cities) are still unexplored and could have market vacancy. Therefore, a reasonable marketing entry strategy could help the expansion of IKEA in Chinese market. REQUIREMENT: Keeping in mind the above case you need to identify which marketing entry stagey IKEA is using right now in china? (2 marks) Do you think they have to stick on the same strategy or need to shift to another marketing entry strategy to grasp the Chinese unexplored market? Name the strategy and justify with 2 logical points ((3 marks). STUDENT’S GUIDE Keep your discussion with the mentioned scenario and irrelevant answers and material will not be graded. Be careful from those blogs who are promoting a cheating culture among our students and killing their creativity and critical thinking. Answers copied from such blogs will be straightaway marked as zero. Similarly, any relevant or irrelevant material copied from internet sources will get the same treatment. It can seriously damage your grades. NOTE: For acquiring the relevant knowledge, do not rely only on handouts but also watch the course video lectures and read additional material available online or in any other mode. IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS: Your discussion must be based on logical facts. The GDB will open and close on above specified date and time. Please note that no grace day or extra time will be given for posting comments on GDB. Use the font style “Times New Roman” and font size “12”. Your answer should be relevant to the topic i.e. clear and concise. Do not copy or exchange your answer with other students. Two identical / copied comments will be marked Zero (0) and may damage your grade in the course. Books, websites and other reading material may be consulted before posting your comments; but copying or reproducing the text from books, websites and other reading materials is strictly prohibited. Such comments will be marked as Zero (0) even if you provide references. You should post your answer on the Graded Discussion Board (GDB), not on the Moderated Discussion Board (MDB). Both will run parallel to each other during the time specified above. Therefore, due care will be needed. Obnoxious or ignoble answer should be strictly avoided. You cannot participate in the discussion after the due date via email. Questions / queries related to the content of the GDB, which may be posted by the students on MDB or via e-mail, will not be replied till the due date of GDB is over. For planning your semester activities in an organized manner, you are advised to view schedule of upcoming Assignments, Quizzes and GDBs in the overview tab of the course website on VU-LMS. Note related to load shedding: Please be proactive Dear Students! As you know that Post Mid-Term semester activities have started and load shedding problem is also prevailing in our country. Keeping in view the fact, you all are advised to post your activities as early as possible without waiting for the due date. For your convenience; activity schedule has already been uploaded on VULMS for the current semester, therefore no excuse will be entertained after due date of assignments, quizzes or GDBs.

MGT520 International Business Fall 2019 Marks: 10 Learning Objective:  The basic objective of this assignment is to familiarize students with the importance of FDI.  And the hindering factors of foreign direct investment in the country. Learning Outcome: After this assignment; Students will learn different causes of discouraging FDI in Pakistan. Premise: Foreign direct investment (FDI) is considering as a leading factor of persistent and higher financial growth and a vital source of money inflows. FDI allows economies to increase their export share in local and global market. Taking the example of Bangladesh where the technological base has upgraded rapidly because of foreign direct investment. Due to the availability of cheap labor cost in the country, textile investors of different countries including Pakistan moved their operations to Bangladesh; as a result Bangladesh’s textile exports are growing faster as compared to Pakistan. Policy makers and academicians believe that Pakistan could also provide these cheap options to foreign investors. But unfortunately Pakistan is not receiving this kind of FDI yet. Requirement: Keeping in view the above scenario you need to identify what could be the factors which are discouraging foreign investors from making efficiency-seeking FDI in Pakistan. (At least three factors).