EMEMAR-00307; No of Pages 15 Emerging Markets Review xxx (2012) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Emerging Markets Review journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/emr Corporate governance and investment-cash flow sensitivity: Evidence from emerging markets Bill Francis a‚ Iftekhar Hasan b‚⁎‚ Liang Song c‚ 1‚ Maya Waisman d‚ 2 a Lally School of Management‚ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute‚ 110‚ 8th Street‚ Troy‚ NY 12180-3590‚ United States Fordham University
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Strategic Management Swapna Rajagopal Executive Summary IKEA is the world’s largest furniture retailer‚ offering affordable furniture catering to primarily young customers. After expanding by almost exponentially in the local Swedish market in the 1960’s‚ IKEA decided to pursue a strategy of internationalization to grow. Their goal was to achieve a turnover of SKr 19 billion by 1990 and possibly SKr 57 billion by 2000. The issues facing the company were: Rapid expansion – Could they
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forward to 2016 focusing in the BRIC group of countries‚ what impact will they have on the world economy? (30 marks) The BRIC group of countries consists of Brazil‚ Russia‚ India and China. BRIC describes the growing power and influence of the emerging markets of these countries in the global economy. In recent years‚ all four BRIC countries have experienced rapid economic growth‚ especially China. The BRIC countries were predicted to account for 37% of global growth between 2011 and 2016 and this
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Here be dragons; Anonymous. The Economist. London: Apr 17‚ 2010. Vol. 395‚ Iss. 8678; pg. 13 Abstract (Summary) Most emerging countries have a penchant for highly diversified conglomerates. India’s Tata Group‚ which accounts for almost 6% of the country’s GDP‚ has subsidiaries in carmaking‚ agricultural chemicals‚ hotels‚ telecommunications and consulting. Reliance Industries’ range sprawls from petrol products and clothes to fresh food. But such diversification is not confined to giant organisations
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M.M. Wilhelm Date of submission: 14th of November 2012 Subject matter: How to win in emerging markets: Lessons from Japan written by Shigeki Ichii‚ Susumu Hattori and David Michael was published in the Harvard Business Review of May 2012. The article is about the fact that big firms like Sony‚ Toyota and Honda were big exporters to developed countries the last decades. But growth in the developed markets has slowed down in the 21st century. The growth at an average annual year rate is much higher
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arechavala@alumni.stanford.edu BERNARDO JAÉN-JIMÉNEZ CUCEA‚ Universidad de Guadalajara‚ Mexico bjajim@hotmail.com BERTA E. MADRIGAL-TORRES CUCEA‚ Universidad de Guadalajara‚ Mexico agenda.madrigal@gmail.com Abstract Internationalization of firms from emerging economies has attracted significant interest in the research literature‚ although it has been mainly directed towards multi-national corporations (MNC’s)‚ noting that their internationalization processes tend to be different from those of MNC’s from
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University of New South Wales‚ 2015 www.hbr.org BEST OF HBR 1998 Too often‚ companies try to impose Western models of commerce on developing countries. They’d do better— and learn more—if they tailored their operations to the unique conditions of emerging markets. The End of Corporate Imperialism by C.K. Prahalad and Kenneth Lieberthal • Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 The
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indicators might companies monitor to guide their investments and organize their local market operations? The BRICs are in the market that develops in the high speed. The BRIC countries’ combined share of total world economic output rose from 16 to 22 percent‚ from 2000 to 2008. Together‚ the BRIC countries accounted for 30 percent of the increase in global output during the period. As BRICS observed as emerging market‚ many investors recognize the potentially attractive return characteristics and
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recent years emerging markets are becoming more and more attractive for global companies as target markets‚ sources of inputs and as global production sites‚ R&D hubs and opportunities for market development (Khanna and Palepu ). The case “Tata Group: India’s New Global Challenger” illustrates that Indian companies are also becoming more important in the international market (Sirkin and Hemerling). There are several reasons why international companies and investors should consider emerging countries
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(Political‚ Legal‚ Economic‚ Social/Cultural‚ Technological and Environmental) factors determine the success or failure of any company when moving into international market either through Joint venture‚ acquisition‚ partnership or any other. It also determines how well the company can easily localise its products and services and gain market or cost leadership position. Political factors refer to government policy and the stability of the political system in the host country. Investor will obviously
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