BA 206 Foundations of International Business: Websites

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Are you interested in working with an international organization? Do you have plans and aspirations to take your business international? Here’s a look at five well-known international businesses that have successfully—and not so successfully—navigated the global market.

Learn about the business culture in another country to have a positive impact on your export success.

This site displays various charts and graphs illustrating international investments, inflows, and outflows.

This site features various international business articles from the Harvard Business Review.

International business ethics constitute a global code of conduct – a set of principles that establishes ethical standards for employees and businesses. Though every business has an ethics code, engaging in international business may introduce gray areas where expectations for employee conduct are unclear.

This site lists four types of international business strategies.

PESTLE analysis template for powerpoint and Google slides

International market research is a key piece of successful export planning. It is important to critically review and assess demand for your product, as well as factors related to a given export destination. The information will maximize your company’s efforts while keeping the export plan cost and time-efficient. These resources can help you compare markets and target the right ones.

This site describes global supply chain management and how it works.

The type of government under which people live has fundamental implications for their freedom, their welfare, and even their lives. Accordingly, this site briefly reviews the major political systems in the world today.

Country risk is a risk that denotes the probability of a foreign government defaulting on its financial obligations as a result of economic slowdown or political unrest.

The opportunity to diversify markets and supply chains and increase access to specialist skills and capabilities abroad is tempting for many companies. But with expansion comes new challenges, like building and maintaining an international workforce. Whether an enterprise succeeds or fails on the world stage may depend greatly on global HR support.

PESTLE Analysis, sometimes referred to as PEST analysis, is a concept in marketing principles. This concept is used as a tool by companies to track the environment they're operating in or are planning to launch a new project/product/service.