What do international companies have to understand in order to operate in other countries (cultures/regs)?
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Any multination company - regardless of how moral a standpoint they assume in their country of origin- will only do the MINIMUM required by any country in which they operate.\n\nFor instance American oil companies will comply with tight environmental and safety restrictions when working in, say, the North sea, Canada  or California, but it is a very different story when they are operating in Africa or South America.  They don't think twice about paying bribes, either.
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this depends on how spread the company that has this title is. if you are talking about an international compnay then the regional manager is usually responisble for a number of countries. if it is a local company then the regional manager is responsible for a number of provinces or a number of stores...
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In-tolerance and ignorance. A simple rule to avoid culture conflict would be: Live your life and do whatever you want to do and believe whatever you want to believe, except if that causes harm to another human being or creature.Why stick your nose in someone elses business?
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bcos internationally business is conducted in english.
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Businesses form cultures.  There are micro cultures, such as that of various kinds of salespeople which independently arrive at certain common behaviors and values while working independently or with a variety of companies.  Then there are company-specific cultures that are greatly different from others of their industry--Apple and IBM are perfect examples of that.\n\nA recent fad was the Six Sigma program of quality improvement.  Motorola developed a plan based on scrutinizing various key and fundamental aspects of production.  Essentially, the idea is that if you keep building a better, more reliable product, the customer and prospect base will keep buying it.   This was adapted and adopted in various ways.  Some corporate cultures needed a "just the facts" mechanical implementation because they already were of that mindset.  Others needed it to be carefully explained and strategically implemented because they were not used to such comparatively sterile production and process scrutiny.  Still others, blundered in from Dilbert-style incompetent managers with all the deft and personality of a butcher or bulldozer.\n\nLearning from other management cultures can include looking at the mistakes and avoiding them.  To see a difference in corporate culture consider the conglomeration of Time to Warner to AOL.  They did it very poorly.  Then watch how Federated Department Stores acquired and assimilated companies.  Big banks, practiced in mergers, can give good examples of assimilation with advancement.
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An international business strategy generally means a strategy that lets a company to grow sustainably , balancing short term , medium term and long term interests not only of it's own field ,country , or other categories but also of the general human beings each step of the way.\nInside there will be strategies that not only give tangible profit but also intangible profit such as energy effieciency that and other measures that help conserve, HRM policies that balance work , family  and the individualconcerned, of every identities imaginable ,CSR that help innovate ideas which raise the probability of more healthy, happy and more buying powered population and expanding plans glocally that cooperate creatively wise indigenous ways not violently reject .
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Almost all clothing companies are using overseas workforce to manufacture their products.\n\nAlmost all shoes companies are making their shoes overseas.\n\nAlmost every business with a customer service department have outsourced to other countries.\n\nBy the time you decide on boycotting all the companies, you will be stripped naked and will not use anything at all.\n\nIt's a business reality of working in an international environemnt.
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From the perspective of someone in the US occasionally looking for suppliers abroad, think how they often search for business partners from other countries:\n\n1. Make sure your company is listed in databases kept by your trade attaches in your embassies. Many companies first go-to place when they want suppliers from abroad are the respective embassies of the countries they want to deal with. Contact your department of foreign affairs to check how to get your name in their listings.\n\n2. Be in databases such as Thomas Register Global http://www.tremnet.com  is the most complete, up-to-date directory of global industrial suppliers and product information\n\n3. Participate in international trade fairs supported by your government, whether based in Thailand or international. Trade shows are your best bet to meeting potential clients from other countries. Even if you don't advertise and can only do this, make sure you do trade shows. Trade shows can connect you to the right audience you need.
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A globalized company is one that can operate worldwide.  A multinational company is one that has locations in more than one country.
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Feel it is about International Marketing skill - understanding global trends/cultures and ability to adapt marketing strategies to that country.\nIt may not be new to the top marketing companies in the world, but even the small & medium enterprises feel the need for this skill today.
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It is very important as part of company's strategy, but you must be talented to do so. There are a lot of people that are trained in the shops - all they would be interested is if you have any previous experience and how you understand the fashion in those countries. It is very important, that is for sure.
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which country you belong to as every country has its own set of rules and regulations you can send ur resume to one of the consultants global.impact2000@gmail.com perhaps they can help you
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Not enough information, matters what it is dealing with. But you should be able too if its a big enough contract dealing with International suppliers...
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This is, of course, not a comprehensive answer, but any business that trades with people or businesses in other nations is part of the international economic system.\n\nFor example, Nike is based in Portland, Oregon. It's a publicly traded company, so theoretically it's owned by any number of people in any number of places. These are it's shareholders. It's shoes are designed by designers and engineers in the US mainly or possibly Japan or Canada or something. That shoe is analyzed by marketing people in the US and other offices of the company.\n\nThen the plans are sent to Nike's suppliers. These could be anywhere, but they tend to be in poorer countries (Mexico, Thailand, China) that have good infrastructure (health care, working roads, stable electricity, stuff like that.) This is because it's cheaper to make shoes where you don't have to pay as high wages but you can still move stuff around easily and depend on communications. The suppliers will acquire the materials they need. For a shoe, this includes rubber, leather, metal, cloth, plastic, etc. Leather can come from anywhere with cows. This would likely be Brazil, Canada or the US. Rubber comes primarily from Indonesia and South East Asia. Plastic is made of oil, which comes from Iran, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, etc. It can be refined and turned into plastic in a lot of places. Let's say this oil comes from Brunei, in South East Asia, and is refined in the Philippines. Let's say the rubber comes from Indonesia. The Leather comes from Australia. And so on. All this is taken to a factory, let's say in China. Workers make it all into shoes. These are shipped out to be sold in South Korea and Italy and South Africa and Argentina and South Dakota and a million other places.\n\nThe part of the price of the shoe that isn't spent on materials or taken out by the store goes to Nike. This is Nike's profits. If Nike keeps making profits and increasingly high profits, shareholders will keep buying "stock" in Nike. Nike has to keep making profits, so it has to keep finding the cheapest way to make shoes and the cheapest way to make the most people buy the most shoes at the highest prices. That's the way it looks for Nike.\n\nIf you go backward, to the stores that sell the shoes, then you see that each of these stores is a link between a huge company and the local economy. People in the town or county buy the shoes and other people work in the stores. The suppliers in China link Nike to people in China and South East Asia. Chinese workers are paid (however small their wages are) and spend their money to buy food, clothes and stuff like that. This money goes into the local economy of Zhangwen or whatever. Then if we go back to Rubber workers in Indonesia, they are injecting shoe money into their local economy.\n\nYou can see that this shoe company involves people in many countries, but that it is all part of a huge complicated system. The economy now involves almost everyone on earth, so it is incredibly hard to predict how something will happen if 6,400,000,000 are all participating in the process. That is why economists so often disagree or end up wrong.\n\nMaking things and selling them is pretty straight forward compared to resources (like oil), currencies (like when people say the "dollar is weaker"), or finances (banks that loan money across the world and stuff like that). When you get into those sort of things, you're often dealing with what a lot of people think in New York or London, instead of actual events.\n\nFor example, if Bush says something about a war with Iran, the price of oil can go up. Not because oil is harder to get, but because a lot of Commodities Traders on Wall Street (Commodities are things like oil or gold that people can buy or sell) think oil will get harder to get. They might be right. If the US invaded Iran, it would make it harder to get oil, because a lot of pipe lines
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There are a lot of international laws that govern these things.  I would contact a bank that works internationally and an international business lawyer to help you get setup.\n\nGood luck with your venture
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Structures of “firms operating in more than one country”:  \n\nMultinational – typical of European firms that emerged in 1920s and 1930s, eg Nestle.  M form.  Subsidiaries are quite independent.  Personnel recruited in each separate country, and usually stay there.  Connections are largely financial.  \n\nInternational – typical of US firms that emerged in 1940s and 1950s, eg General Motors.  Pyramid.  Subsidiaries may produce for local market, eg GM Holden in Australia or Adam Opel in Germany, but replicate or “clone” home office structure.  Top managers are from the home country.  Connections are through knowledge and information flows from center to subsidiaries.  \n\nGlobal – typical of Japanese firms that emerged in 1960s and 1970s, eg Toyota.  Pyramid.  But here subsidiaries produce components for single products marketed worldwide.  All managers from middle level up are from the home country.  Connections are flows of goods within firm.  \n\nTransnational – emergent form, eg General Electric Medical Systems, or Acer?  Not a matrix, but a more fluid connection among relatively independent subsidiaries.  Location and production decisions based on cost and competency factors.  Connections are back and forth flows, and include knowledge and personnel to and from home office and among subsidiaries. Attempts to balance the need to be responsive to host-country markets, with the need to obtain global efficiencies.\n\n--doing the essay right now about this stuff.....ahhhhh so confusing!!!--
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make sure you  do your research on the company and the culture first