Exam 7: Foreign market entry

Which of the following is not a key impediment to international franchising?

Firms can become unplanned participants in the international market because of:

_____________incentives are specific tax measures designed to serve as an attraction to the foreign investor._______ incentives offer special funding for the investor by providing land or buildings, loans.loan guarantees or wage subsidies._________ incentives can consist of guaranteed government purchases; special protection from competition through tariffs, import quotas and local content requirements; and investments in infrastructure facilities.

Which of the following is not a reason for foreign domestic investment?

What is the difference between proactive and reactive motivators that spur a company to go international?

One special form of joint venture is the ____________, or partnership.These _______________ arrangements between two or more companies with a common business objective result from growing global competition, rapid increases in the investment required for technological progress and growing risk of failure.

Which of the following is considered a proactive motivation to go international?

Why has taxation, although historically a good incentive for exporting, become less of an incentive for companies to go international?

Assuming product success in the home market, a company can penetrate an international market with a pricing scheme focused on variable costs alone, but this strategy is only feasible with a long-term commitment.

Which of the following is not a proactive reason why firms go international?

Which of the following is not a key issue in negotiating licensing agreements?

The growing global protection of intellectual property rights is one of the reasons why licensing is becoming an increasingly popular.

Which of the following is the primary outside influence on a firm's decision to become international?

Agents have less freedom than distributors because:

Merchandising licensing agreements:

In order for change to take place within an organisation, someone or something within the company must initiate it and shepherd it through to implementation.This person (or this internal condition)is referred to as an expansionist.

Proactive firms go international because they want to do so.Reactive motivations influence firms that are responsive to environmental changes and who adjust to them by changing their activities over time.

In most cases today, a firm can enter the international market easily, and the process takes less time than participating in the domestic market.

Franchising is attractive to the governments of recipient countries because the outflow of foreign exchange is low.

Export activities are so important to revenue that all countries offer tax concessions to their firms.