Deliverable Length: 3-5 pages
Details: As a Venezuelan business owner (you may select the specific business of your choice), you are very interested in the fact that Venezuela has recently been accepted as an associate member of MERCOSUR (July, 2004). You need to prepare your operations in view of this new reality.
Develop a plan for your business that will be implemented as Venezuela becomes part of MERCOSUR. Your business plan should include the following:
Benefits and drawbacks for the country of Venezuela as a result of their membership in MERCOSUR
Benefits and drawbacks for your business as a result of their membership in MERCOSUR
What adjustments will need to be made to your business as a result of this?
Deliverable Length: 3-4 paragraphs
Details: For many global companies, China represents a very attractive market in terms of size and growth rate. Yet, it ranks lower in terms of economic freedom and higher in political risk than other country markets because it has a communist government. Despite these risks, Volkswagen, Isuzu, and Boeing are just a few of the hundreds of companies that have established manufacturing operations in China. This is due in large part to the Chinese government making sales in China contingent on a company’s willingness to locate production there. The government wants Chinese companies to learn modern management skills from non-Chinese companies and acquire technology. Some observers believe that when Western companies agree to such conditions, they are bargaining away important industry knowledge in exchange for sales today. Should Boeing and other companies go along with China’s terms, or should they risk losing sales by refusing to transfer technology?