Global Expansion Strategies
Organizational Structures
Business Vocabulary
Real-World Companies
Critical Thinking
100

The international strategy that is considered low risk & easy to enter or exit.

What is Export-Import Business?

100

This structure organizes operations by world region.

What is Geographic Division Structure?

100

The payments to the parent company based on sales.

What are royalties?

100

The company that adapts menus by region around the world.

What is McDonald's?

100

The two main reasons why exporting is considered lower risk than foreign direct investment.

What are less capital and commitment required?

200

The difference between a licensor & a licensee.

What is the licensor grants rights & the licensee receives rights?

200

This structure has employees reporting to multiple managers.

What is Matrix Structure?

200

Greater risk usually offers greater potential reward.

What is the Risk-Return Tradeoff?

200

The company that is known for centralized functional management.

What is Tesla?

200

Main reason why companies use strategic alliances?.

What is to cooperate without creating joint ownership?

300

The 3 reasons why a company might choose a joint venture instead of a Greenfield Investment.

What are to share costs, risks, & local expertise?

300

The two main reasons why a Transnational Structure may be difficult to manage.

What are complex coordination & communication across countries?

300

The letters MNE stand for.

What is Multinational Enterprise?

300

The company that uses global product divisions for electronics and appliances.

What is Samsung?

300

The two structures that would work best for a company that wants both global efficiency and local responsiveness.

What are Matrix and Transnational Structures?

400

The strategy that a company that wants total control over foreign operations from the ground up would use.

What is a Greenfield Investment?

400

The three advantages of a Global Functional Structure.

What are:

1-Efficient use of expertise

2-Lower costs

3-Centralized control

400

The difference between a merger and an acquisition.

What is a merger combines companies and an acquisition is when one company purchases another?

400

The company that uses elements of a matrix structure to coordinate products and regions globally.

What is Unilever?

400

The structure a company that is struggling because there are resources that are being duplicated and competing with each other is using.

What is Geographic Division Structure?

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