Focus Firm
Intermediary
Facilitator
Government
Entry Strategy
100
A company with 500 or fewer employees.
What is Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME)?
100
A type of distribution channel intermediary who takes title to the exporter’s goods and performs marketing functions such as sales, promotion, and after sales service on the exporter’s behalf.
What is Foreign Distributor?
100
A specialist enterprises that arrange clearance of products through customs on behalf of importing firms.
What is Customs Broker?
100
The monetary authority in each country that issue currency and regulate national money supplies.
What is Central Bank
100
a firm that enters a contractual agreement with a foreign partner to allow the partner the right to use certain intellectual property for a specified period of time in exchange for royalties or other compensation.
What is Licensor?
200
A large company with substantial resources that performs various business activities through a network of subsidiaries and affiliates located in multiple countries.
What is Multinational Enterprise (MNE)?
200
A type of distribution channel intermediary who works under contract by the exporter to represent and sell its merchandise in designated territories.
What is Representative?
200
A federal agency that assists exporters in financing sales or their products and services in foreign markets.
What is Export Import Bank?
200
a state-owned investment fund that undertakes systematic, global investment activities.
What is Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF)?
200
a firm that grant another the right to use an entire business system in exchange for fees, royalties, or other forms of compensation.
What is Franchisor?
300
A young entrepreneurial company that initiates international business activity early in its evolution, moving rapidly into foreign markets.
What is Born Global Firm?
300
A type of distribution channel intermediary who works on a commission basis to bring the buyer and seller together.
What is Agent?
300
A transportation specialist that arranges for physical distribution and storage of products on behalf of focal firms, as well as controlling information between the point of origin and the point of consumption.
What is Logistics Service Provider?
300
An international forum for the governments and central bank governors from 20 major economies
What is G-20 (Group of twenty)?
300
a firm that plan, finance, organize, manage, and implement all phases of a project and then hand it over to a foreign customer after training local personnel.
What is Turnkey Contractor?
400
A type of company that has limited resources to internationalizing via FDI.
What is SME?
400
A type of distribution channel intermediary who finds export customers, negotiates terms of sale, and arranges for international shipping, typically for smaller exporters.
What is Export Management Company?
400
A company who provide coverage against commercial and political risks.
What is Insurance Company?
400
The organization to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
What is IMF (International Monetary Fund)
400
The strategy that firms create and jointly owns a new legal entity through equity investment or pooling of assets.
What is Joint Venture (JV)
500
A type of company which usually leverage information and communication technologies to internationalize early and operate effectively in world markets.
What is Born Global Firm?
500
A type of distribution channel intermediary who handles imports and exports of raw materials, parts, and finished products, and are typically high-volume, low-margin resellers.
What is Trading Company?
500
A company who is a potential key resource for identifying and targeting foreign buyers, and can gain access to information on markets, competitors, and the methods of international business.
What is Market Research Firm?
500
The organization that deals with regulation of trade between participating countries by providing a framework for negotiating and formalizing trade agreements and a dispute resolution process.
What is WTO (World Trade Organization)
500
A cross-border business alliance in which partnering firms pool their resources to create a new venture, sharing the associated costs and risks.
What is International Collaborative Venture?
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