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3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: MBA 502 or 508
This course deals with International Business as a function of
operational, functional, and environmental variables and patterns of
behavior of the corporation. A
Intra-corporate research and analysis dealing within the corporation to
determine the ability to successfully compete in a foreign market. The
firm's competitive advantages, anatomy, goals and objectives, internal
resources, priorities, and a general framework will be study. This
segment will also examine the techniques of the industry and
competitive analysis. The second area will deal with the intercorporate research and analysis of those
variables and conditions that are outside the control of the firm and
the relationship of the corporation and its environment such as
cultural model, choice of product (s) selection and analysis, choosing
candidate market(s) stages and methods, direct and indirect investment,
methods of entry and entry strategies, methods of financing,
accounting, personnel management and information systems, exchange
rates and monetary systems, theories of direct and indirect investment.
The grade will be based on class participation, presentations,
research, position and analysis paper of any topic dealing with
international, a corporate research paper, cases, and a comprehensive
objective and subjective examination.
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