Dow Chemical Company entered into a Joint Venture with State of Kuwait run Petrochemical Industries Company ("PIC"). “PIC” is a wholly owned subsidiary of State owned Kuwait Petroleum Corporation ("KPC"). to launch K-Dow Petrochemicals‚ a planned joint venture. PIC was to have paid pay Dow $7.5 billion US dollars for its stake. The deal was approved by Kuwait’s Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC). The head of the SPC is the Prime Minister of Kuwait The venture was to manufacture and market polyethylene
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mergers and joint ventures In recent years‚ the number of mergers and joint ventures has gone up. The fact is that many companies want to expand their business in order to get advantages such as increase in revenue‚ a cut in cost in general. However‚ the main reason for the integration of organisations is due to a competitive world that they must face. Unfortunately‚ the side effect is that many mergers and joint ventures often break up‚ and it is claimed that 40% of mergers and joint ventures fail. Therefore
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Phase 2 DB2 In today’s discussion board we are going to definitions of exporting‚ counter trade‚ switch trading‚ counter purchase‚ licensing‚ franchising‚ collaboration‚ strategic‚ alliances and equity joint ventures. I will also be providing the advantages and the disadvantages of these entry mode expressions and the risks that are involved in each one. I will also be discussing if I were a manufacturing clothing manufacture what would be the mode of entry that would help to lower cost and to
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A. Impact of the Joint Venture for Vinafood II 12 B. Impact of the Joint Venture for American Rice Inc. 15 C. Impact of the Joint Venture for Vietnam’s economy 16 D. Culture of trust in Joint Ventures 16 III. ALTERNATIVES 23 A. Parboil Facility 23 B. Fully-Owned ARI Business in Vietnam 26 RECOMMENDATIONS & CONCLUSION 28 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY When American Rice inc. decided to enter the uncertain Vietnamese market‚ it decided to enter a joint venture with a local company
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Q1: Why do you think Starbucks has now elected to expand internationally primarily through local joint ventures to whom it licenses its format‚ as opposed to using a pure licensing strategy? First of all‚ the main point of this topic is that local joint venture gives control to Starbucks. In fact‚ the company can be really sure that licensees are following its success formula. For example‚ it allowed the company to the liberty to train the foreign working party by transferring some employees
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External forces :The term environment means all the forces influencing the life and development of the firm. The external forces are commonly called uncontrollable forces. Management has no direct control over them. External forces consist of the following: 1. Competitive: Kind and number of competitors‚ their locations and their activities 2. Distributive: National and international agencies available for distributing goods and services 3. Economic: Variables (such as GNP‚ unit labor
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include new unrelated products or services. In this case products like Coke Diet‚ Juices‚ Vitamin water‚ etc. could be considered as centric diversification part. - Joint venture – a kind of strategy that occurs when two or more company form a temporary partnership for the purpose of capitalizing on some opportunity. Joint venture with Cadbury has been suggested in this part. - Conglomerate Diversification – include new unrelated products. Entering into snack business is an example of this strategy
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“CORPORATE CULTURE IN AN INTERNATIONALJOINT VENTURE” A case study of Sony Ericsson Group Members: Arslan Ahmed (1983-11-07) Zhaohua Pang (1983-11-16) Tutor: Leif Linnskog Seminar Date: 28th May‚ 2009 Master Thesis – EFO705 CORPORATE CULTURE IN AN INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURE Abstract Seminar Date: 28th May‚ 2009 Level: Master Thesis – EFO705 Authors: Arslan Ahmed (1983-11-07) & Zhaohua Pang (1983-11-16) Title: Corporate Culture in an International Joint Venture – A Case Study of Sony Ericsson Tutor:
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business owned and controlled by two or more partners? Answer | | multinational enterprise | | | foreign direct investment | | | global management team | | | international joint venture | 1. Alliances in which two or more partners have different relative ownership shares in the new venture are called ________. Answer | | cultural strategic alliances | | | equity strategic alliances | | | non-equity strategic alliances | | | transmodal strategic alliances |
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crisis in 2009. In order to diagnosis the problem‚ Mr. Idris called for a meeting among senior managements. He found out that there was no-result investment made by one of the subsidiaries‚ Malaysian Travels Sdn Bhd (MTSB). In 2006‚ MTSB had a joint ventures with Turkistan Global Services Sdn Bhd (TGS) to form a new entity‚ Malaysian Turkistan Travel Sdn Bhd (MTT)‚ in the purpose of exploring travel business opportunities in Turkistan. In this entity‚ MTSB holds 40% of the shares whereas the others
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