BUSS 443 International Strategy
List of Topics for Student Presentations
Accounting performance evaluation practices by MNEs
Adoption of International Financial Accounting Reporting Standards by the EU
American investment in (country XYZ’s) manufacturing industry
An evaluation of IMF – World bank
Balance of payments
Basic issues in franchising
Basic issues in International licensing
Blunders in cross cultural training
Borderless World
Breakdown of the Bretton wood system and Emergence of managed floating
Business process outsourcing
Can vertical specialization explain the growth of world trade?
Change in scenario of international business
Changing patterns of International production
Comparative cost advantage with money
Competitive advantage in a global setting
Country differences in degree of globalization
Criticisms of globalization
Cross border mergers & acquisitions.
Cross cultural communication process & negotiations
Cross cultural training
Cross-national cooperation and agreements
Cultural attitude and International business
Cultural Distance: usefulness and limitations for international business
Cultural transformation
Currency exchange rates and their management
Debate on off-shoring
Determinants of growth in transition economies
Determination of exchange rates
Development of services that support international business
Differences between GATT & WTO
Different modes of entry to foreign markets
Different product placements in movies and television internationally
Dimensions of International adjustment
Distribution of political freedom
Division of labor and specialization
Does Geography matter in International Trade or Business?
Does International Business lead to Cultural Imperialism?
Drivers and restrainers of globalization
Economic growth of the world
Economic integration of developing countries
Economic similarity of developed country
Economies of scale
Effect of location on innovation
Effect of religion on economic growth
Effects of consumer preferences foreign sourced products.
Elements of export price structure.
EMS, ECU & Euro
Environment of international business and its significance
Environmental challenges for (company name) in (country name)
Essential conditions for globalization
Evolution and diffusion of legal systems
Evolution of international business
Exchange rate and convertibility of the rupee
Expanded coverage of international economic analysis
Factors affecting international investment
Factors affecting International pricing
Factors influencing the value of a currency
Foreign direct investment with strategic alliances
Foreign direct investment without alliances
Foreign exchange management act
WTO: Benefits to (country name)
Global economy and business environment
Global strategic Rivalry Theory
Globalization and inequality of nations
Globalization and consequences of international fragmentation
Government Influence on International Trade
Governments markets and multinational enterprises
Greenfield versus acquisitions decisions
Growth of multilingual and transnational individuals
How technology fastens the process of globalization?
How to minimize political risks?
Impact of Internet on globalization
Impact of Internet on import & export
Impact of technology on International business
Implications of absolute cost advantage theory of international trade
Implications of FDI for business
Important forces behind globalization
Income distribution and poverty
(country name) in the world economy
International business law
International dimensions of organizational behavior
International economic organizations
International investment & finance
International Investment and International trade in the product life cycle
International monetary system & foreign exchange market
International product life cycle
International Trade and Factor Mobility Theory
Internationalization of stock markets
Is Globalization Inevitable?
Knowledge flows within MNCs
Liberalized exchange rate management system
Life cycle of a joint venture
Limitations & Dangers of foreign capital
Macroeconomic issues affecting business decisions
Major ethical issues like global warming and child labor
Managing International Operations
Marketing regulation to third world countries
Mercantilism
Most Favored Nation (MFN) clause
Multinational advertising: – Factors influencing the standardized us specialized approach.
National disasters arid health problems as location risk problems
Nationalism and business policy
Need for training & development for global jobs
Network and virtual forms of organization
Nobel economists’ views on future challenges
Non agricultural Market Access (NAMA)
North American free trade agreement (NAFTA)
Operational legal concerns
Organization of Economic cooperation & development (OECD)
Performance appraisal in global companies
Play of domestic and international factors on exchange rate values
Polycentric approach of international business
Porter’s National competitive advantage
Problems of international business
Pros and cons of outsourcing innovation
Pros and cons of strategic trade policy
Pros and cons of trade sanctions
Public attitudes to globalization
Qualitative factors that impact location decisions
Recent trade wars and retaliation
Regional integration Agreement & Trade (RIAs)
Relationship between interventionist and free trade theories
Relationship between trade and factor mobility
Relative factor endowments theory
Resources offered by the government to international traders
Risks associated with International business
Role of MNCs (multinational company) in (country name)
Salient features of UR agreement
Should Africa Develop a common Currency?
Should smaller firms use third world methods to enter third world markets
Stages of Internationalization
Strategy of Japanese car makers in Europe
Structural & organizational changes in global firms
The competitive advantage of nations
The demise of the product life cycle in International business today
The effect of foreign trade on the distribution of income
The future of global governance
The global logic of strategic alliances
The Globalization of Professional Sports
The Newly Industrialized countries in the world economy
Theory of Absolute cost advantage
Towards a Globe airline industry prospects and impediments
Trade balances and deficits
Trade related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)
Trends in global income distribution
Understanding strategic intent in the Global market place
What will happen to national culture in the era of globalization?
Why are Globalization and International Business Important?
Why companies become multinational companies?
Why companies engage in International business?
Why FDI when other means are available?
Why international Business differs from Domestic Business?
Workplace trends and organizational forms
WTO & developing countries
WTO & Global liberalization