China: Moving Up the Value Chain
China is attempting to maintain a vast manufacturing base, develop a market of 1.3 billion consumers and create the capacity to provide the world with high-value goods and services-all at the same time. Companies that want to succeed in that country will need strategies that enable them to respond accordingly.
Content: Article | Authors: Andrew Sleigh, Hans von Lewinski | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subject: International – China
A.T. Kearney’s Global Services Location Index (GSLI)
The Index evaluates 40 countries as potential locations for the most common remote services, including IT services and support, contact centers, back-office support. Each country’s score is comprised of a weighted combination of relative scores on 40 individual metrics, which are grouped into three categories: financial attractiveness, people skills and availability, and business environment.
Content: Article | Source: Kearney | Subjects: International, Outsourcing / BPO
Racing for Knowledge: International Comparisons
Chinese Tourism Market
M&A Activity in China
Globalization and the world economy
Ed Sim offers this blog post about globalization, referencing some interesting sources and graphics.
Content: Article | Author: Ed Sim | Source: BeyondVC | Subjects: Economics, International
Checking China’s Vital Signs: The Social Challenge
China’s performance in meeting its key social challenges shows how far it has come and how far it has yet to go.
Content: Article | Author: Jonathan R. Woetzel | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: International – China
Randy Starr, Jim Newfrock, and Michael Delurey
The reliance on open borders, transnational alliances, and global markets for capital, goods, and services has generated a “just in time” economy, which, although remarkably cost-efficient, leaves companies open to a range of discontinuities that can affect operations, reputation, customer habits, legal standing, regulatory compliance, earnings performance, and ultimately shareholder value. We call these new vulnerabilities, collectively, interdependence risk, and define it as unanticipated risk … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: International, Risk Management
India’s Lagging Financial System
The country must develop its financial system in order to keep pace with China.
Content: Article | Authors: Aneta Marcheva Key, Diana Farrell | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: International – Asia
Breaking Out of China’s Value Trap
Many multinationals expanding into China’s inland cities become caught in a “value trap.” Mounting losses follow initial investments. Fragmented markets and immature distribution systems confront local managers. China experts Jim Hemerling and Hubert Hsu present options for avoiding this common pitfall including: a new business model grounded in cost reduction; a better perspective on China’s non-urban consumer; and the opportunities creative partnering with local companies … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Hubert Hsu, Jim Hemerling | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: International – China
Regulation That’s Good for Competition
Market economies need regulation to facilitate fair competition and to protect consumers, the environment, and vulnerable workers from unfair practices. Too often, however, regulation has the opposite effect: hindering competition and protecting some groups at the expense of others, which is what happens when, for example, minimum-wage regulations limit the creation of jobs for low-skilled workers. A report by the McKinsey Global Institute highlights the … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Diana Farrell, Scott C. Beardsley | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: International, Trends / Analysis
Dun & Bradstreet’s Guide to Doing Business Around the World
Providing extensive information, this reference work is designed to help the user enter the global market. Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway and Joseph J. Douress have organized their work into 40 chapters, one for each of the top trade partners of the United States. Their up-to-date guidebook presents an array of brief information about the language, government system, population, geography, and natural resources of each … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Joseph J. Douress, Terri Morrison, Wayne A. Conaway | Subject: International
Language, Culture and Global Business
The choice of an interpreter may be one of the most important choices you make when conducting business globally.
Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Roney, Ph.D. | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subject: International
Eurosclerosis Revisited
The productivity boom benefits the U.S. more than Europe. Five reports explore why.
Content: Article | Author: Diane Coyle | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, International – Europe
Country Analysis Briefs
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) offers free country briefs. Information is focused on energy statistics but also offers overviews on the country, its national economy, and environmental information.
Content: Online Resource | Source: Energy Information Administration (EIA) | Subjects: International, Reference / Search
Theodore Levitt
The global competitor will seek constantly to standardize its offering everywhere. It will digress from this standardization only after exhausting all possibilities to retain it, and will push for reinstatement of standardization whenever digression and divergence have occurred. It will never assume that the customer is a king who knows his own wishes.
…The global corporation accepts for better or for worse that technology drives consumers … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: International, Marketing / Sales
Everything International
Everything International (Ev-In) is intended as an electronic library of resources for faculty, students, and practitioners in the field of international business. Hyperlinks to public and private sources are listed with perceived usefulness being the only criteria used in selecting sites.
Content: Online Resource | Author: Lloyd C. Russow | Subjects: International, Reference / Search
Reining in Brazil’s Informal Economy
The gray market thrives in Brazil, where the informal economy generates nearly 40 percent of the national income. Many companies don’t pay their taxes and ignore regulations, thereby gaining an unfair advantage over their law-abiding counterparts while hurting the nation’s productivity. Brazil’s onerous bureaucracy is partly to blame: burdensome regulations, high taxes, and weak enforcement conspire to encourage evasion because the benefits outweigh the relatively … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Heinz-Peter Elstrodt, Joe Capp, William B. Jones Jr. | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: International – Americas
China and India: The Reality Beyond the Hype
The conventional wisdom says that China is the biggest story of our time. Now, as India goes through a similar process characterized by historically high rates of growth and further integration into the global economy, it appears that the path it follows will influence the global economy and business environment. Perhaps, then, India is the next big story.
Global business leaders believe that they must have … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Ira Kalish | Source: Deloitte | Subjects: International – Asia, International – China
In Harm’s Way: Getting It Right in China
Global players aren’t in China just to pursue growth. They are also there to compete head-on with the Chinese. But the biggest challenges multinationals encounter in China are often self-generated, because they fail to commit themselves fully to the effort. To keep from getting sidelined, China-bound companies must prepare to do business outside the big cities, make sure the home organization is motivated to support … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: George Stalk Jr., Hubert Hsu | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: International – China