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Horizontal
Diversification
Vertical
Diversification
Geographic
Diversification
What is Globalization?
Value of world exports in 2014 more
than quadrupled between 1980 and
2014.
Foreign investment grow more than
twenty-fold.
Firms without international goals may
find their domestic markets under threat
from foreign competition.
What is Globalization?
Standardization of products & services
Zaha na jaye bhelgari, woha jai marwari
Go to place where there is a market but
inaccessible area
Comes with a costWhy go there?
Globalization is not
about products or
services in multiple
countries but about
Outsourcing
Offsourcing
Open sourcing
Insourcing
Supply chaining
Factor Driven
economies
Efficiency
Driven
economies
Market size
Innovation &
sophistication factors
Business Sophistication
Innovation
Innovation
Driven
economies
Challenges of globalization?
Standardized products and services
Co-ordination of a globally distributed
supply chain
Globalization =f(industry)
Finally..
International strategy is challenging and
interesting and offers degrees of
freedom..at intermediate levels
of cross-border integration.
Cant ignore barriers.
Cant ignore linkages.
CONFIGURATION AND
COORDINATION
Nokia
R&D Units
Finland
Germany
U.S.
Hungary
China
Malaysia
S. Korea
Australia
U.K.
Japan
Italy
Canada
Sweden
Denmark
Production
Finland
Germany
U.S.
Hungary
Sweden
China
Malaysia
U.K.
France
S. Korea
Australia
Brazil
U.K. Mexico
When Do You
Centralize an Activity?
Economies
versus
Diseconomies of Scale
When Do You
Centralize an Activity?
When there is a compelling advantage
to carrying out an activity in a particular
location
When the costs of customizing the
activity to different locations are not too
high
Home countrys institutions determine whether
centralizing at home is advantageous or not
New Products
Marketing
HR
IT
Localization
Information dissemination styles
and ways of assimilating
/communicating analysis differ.
Using experience in U.S./Europe to
introduce new products. Change
Japan rather than change to Japan.
Exceedingly difficult to penetrate
local relations
U.S. firm trying to create a local
face
Rely on local firms for local-local IT
and on China/India contractors for
other software
Challenges of globalization?
Standardized products and services
Co-ordination of a globally distributed
supply chain
Globalization =f(industry)
Talent
Results
Citibank
Line of business
HSBC
Worlds local bank
Geographic focus
Single B\L
Local B\L sheets
Large bets
Conservative
Hedged local positions Unhedged local
positions
Easy entry/exit
Never leave a
country
voluntarily
Centralized
Local talent
Most profits from U.S Even distribution of
profit
Faster and volatile
Slower and steadier
stock price
stock price
appreciation
appreciation
Your responsespliz
Operational Nature
Communication, coordination, motivation,
differences in organizational principles and
management philosophies
Heterogeneity?
What is it?
Decisions
Scale
Does scale result in CA?
Decisions
Volatility
What is it?
Global Strategy
1997
1999
Goizueta
Invester
Think Global,
Act Global
March 2000
Daft
Dec 2000
Daft
Think Local,
Act Local
Post-Global
Isolation
(complete
separation of
markets)
Semi-globalization
Globality
(complete
integration of
markets)
Aggregation
Scale
Economies
Arbitrage
Absolute
economies
Adaptation
Aggregation
County-by-country is expensive
How do you address complexity without
sacrificing economies of scale?
HSBC
Organizational
emphasis
Line of business
Local
Single B\L
Commitment
Conservative
Un-hedged local positions
Never leave a country
voluntarily
Talent
Centralized
Local talent
Results
Global/Outsourcing strategy
Mfg
Logistics
Brand
Retail
Zara
Esquel
Benetton
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Gap
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Li & Fung
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Compensation
Benchmark
% chance of advancing
Latin American
playgrounds & slums
Age
<10
20%
Latin American little
league
10%
Gloves, jerseys
etc
10-14
$800/month
12-17
30%
Minor league
10%
Major league
10%
0.00006
10%
Major league
superstars
18-21
21-27
>27
Operational Nature
Communication, coordination, motivation,
differences in organizational principles and
management philosophies