Chapter 1: Global Environmental Drivers Flashcards
International Marketing
Consists of the activity, institutions, and processes across national borders that creates, communicates, delivers, and exchanges offerings that have value for stakeholders and society.
According to the international marketing definition, international marketing has to be from _______, and not from __________.
Institutions and not from individual people.
According to the international marketing definition, what are “offerings”?
Offerings can be goods, services, information, places, ideas, etc.
What is the common characteristic of offerings?
That they are used to satisfy customer needs.
What is the formula for value?
Value = Benefit - Costs
In the definition of international marketing, what are stakeholders?
Stakeholders can be employees, management, neighbourhoods, governments, distributors, shareholders, etc.
What is the only difference between domestic and international marketing definitions?
The only difference is “across national borders”
What is AMA?
American Marketing Association
Forms of international marketing
- Export–import trade
- Licensing
- Joint ventures
- Wholly owned subsidiaries
- Turnkey operations
- Management contracts (an alternative to FDI)
What is licensing?
We allow another institution to use our IPR (Intellectual property rights).
What is joint venture?
Company A owns 50% of company C, and company B owns the other 50% of company C. Both companies are in different countries.
What are wholly owned subsidiaries?
Company A does not cooperate with Company B in the other county. An advantage is that you have complete control. But a disadvantage is that you have to make a huge investment initially.
What are turnkey operations?
A type of project that is constructed so that it can be sold to any buyer as a completed product. For instance, the forthcoming Jewar Airport. Zurich Airport International, a Swiss corporation, is creating it. The airport will be turn over to the local government for operation after it has been fully construct.
What questions need to be addressed in international making decisions?
- Where are my current and potential customers?
- Does my need-to-have market have borders?
- Does international activity increase risk?
- What marketing adjustments are or will be necessary?
- What threats from global competition should I expect?
- How do innovation and entrepreneurship change the global marketplace?
- What are my strategic global alternatives?
What is the difference between current and potential customers?
Current customers are within our country, and within the markets we have been in. The potential customers are in the market you are planning to enter.
What is one way that global competition comes from?
Companies from other foreign markets in the same market.
Within the last decade, world trade represents a growth of….
140% for trade in both merchandise and services.
What are two things that have made production efficient?
International specialization and cross-sourcing.
What is specialization?
Theory of absolute advantage from Adam Smith.
For example, Africa is good at making coffee, but Japan is good at manufacturing technology, so Japan should not be focusing on growing coffee.
What is cross-sourcing?
A manufacturer uses a single supplier for one part or service, and another supplier with the same basic capabilities for a different part or service. The idea behind cross sourcing is that each supplier can act as a backup for the other supplier in the event of a disruption.
How have new emerging economies liberalized their economic systems?
- Bringing billions of new consumers into the global economic system
- Offering a vast array of new marketing opportunities
- Redefining the way business is done through revolutionary technologies
What is BRICS?
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. These are the emerging markets/economies.
What are trading blocs?
- Encourage trade relations among member countries
- Regulate the trade and investment flows of nonmember countries
- E.g., European Union in Europe, NAFTA in North America
What is REI?
Regional economic integration
What are 4 types of REI?
- free trade areas
- customs unions
- common markets (also called single markets)
- economic unions.