Chapter Discussion Questions 1. Discuss the reasons that companies embark on cross-border strategic alliances. What other motivations may prompt such alliances? The text notes five motives for cross border alliances: 1) to avoid import barriers‚ licensing requirements and other protectionist legislation; 2) to share the costs and risks of the research and development of new products and processes; 3) to gain access to specific markets; 4) to reduce political risk while making inroads into a new market;
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Cited: Butler‚ Rhett A. 2007 Climate change will increase extinction risk‚ especially in the tropics. http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0326-climate.html Mckinney‚ John. 2009 Drought‚ Not Old Chaparral‚ Aiding Wildfires. http://www.miller-mccune.com/science_environment/drought-aiding-wildfires-1418 Unknown Author. 2009 Climate Change. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/basicinfo.html Unknown Author. 2009 World Biomes. http://www.blueplanetbiomes
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Many important factors helped to promote America’s huge industrial growth during the period from 1860 to 1900. Before the blossom of this industrialization‚ the United States consisted of mostly farms and small towns. The development of factories and urban cities soon changed all of this. The railroad system expanded and eventually turned into a goldmine for commerce in the United States. Machinery started to decrease the amount of animal labor used‚ which allowed the consistency and production of
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Telefonica. Until the 1990s‚ Telefonica was a typical state-owned firm. Today‚ it has expanded into Latin America and Europe. The closing case explores Mittal Steel’s expansion from a small‚ family-run operation in India‚ to being the world’s largest steel company headquartered in Rotterdam. OUTLINE OF CHAPTER 7: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT Opening Case: Spain’s Telefonica Introduction Foreign Direct Investment in the World Economy Trends in FDI The Direction of FDI
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Historical Review 90.2 (1985): 299-338. Print. Carnegie‚ Andrew. “Wealth.” North American Review CXLVIII (1889): 653-64. Furman: Andrew Carnegie‚ Wealth. Ed. Katie Morgan and T. Lloyd Benson. Furman U. n.d. Web. 3 Aug. 2009. Kent‚ Zachary. Andrew Carnegie: Steel King and Friend to Libraries. New Jersey: Enslow‚ 1999. Print. McCloskey‚ Robert Green. American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise‚ 1865-1910. New York: Harper‚ 1951. Print. “The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie.” Dir. Austin Hoyt. Narr
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entrepreneur‚ he had to make sacrifices. Document 6. A workplace with perfect conditions doesn’t exist‚ especially when you work for something as important as steel. Back then‚ of course things would break and injure people. Steel was a new concept to people in America. Carnegie became a bona fide and genuinely rich man from all of the steel he produced‚ and he gave millions of dollars away to support the U.S. and Scotland with things that were
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It’s a honor to be ‘ere today with y’all Congressmen. I came ‘ere today to speak to y’all about the workin’ conditions in the Carnegie Steel Mill Company. We work twelve hour shifts‚ seven days a week. We don’t get any breaks‚ only the lucky ones who seem to find a minute or two to spare can get some breaks. Most don’t bring in food ‘cus we don’t have any time to eat while we work. We earn ten dollars only a week‚ while the salary of Andrew Carnegie is the salary of four thousand workers put together
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However‚ he did speak out against the evils of segregation‚ lynching‚ and discrimination in voting. Andrew Carnegie was not only a hugely successful businessman‚ but a great philanthropist. With the wealth that he acquired from the Carnegie Steel company‚ he promoted education and world peace.Carnegie was perhaps one of the first people to publicly state that the wealthy had a moral obligation to give away their fortunes. In 1889‚ he wrote "The Gospel of Wealth"; in this book he argued that
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or the worker? The Homestead strike was most likely the main reason workers unionized. The strike was the first situation in which the workers banded together to showcase unfair working conditions. The Homestead Mill was a factory that produced steel. The manager of the factory was Henry Fink who worked under one of the richest men in America at that time‚ Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie wanted to surpass Rockefeller as the richest man in America. Carnegie decided to lower the wages his workers made
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Internet Case for Chapter 2: Operations Strategy in a Global Environment Johannsen Steel Company Johannsen Steel Company (JSC) was established by three Johannsen brothers in 1928 in Pittsfield‚ Rhode Island. The brothers began JSC by concentrating on high-quality‚ high-carbon‚ high-margin steel wire. Products included "music wire" for instruments such as pianos and violins; copper‚ tin‚ and other coated wires; and high tensile-wire for the newly emerging aircraft industry. JSC even pioneered
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