International strategy and organization

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:

· Please read all the questions thoroughly and answer all of them.

· The students are also required to include colorful pictures where ever necessary.

· The students are also required to include the necessary references used in making this assignment at the end of the report. (absence of references would receive 1 negative mark)

INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATION

1. select an international company that interests you & locate its annual report from its investor relations department on the Internet.

2. What are its corporate and business level strategies? corporate : (Growth Strategy or Retrenchment Strategy or Stability Strategy or Combination) business level : (Low-Cost Leadership Strategy or Differentiation Strategy or Focus Strategy )

3. Does it standardize products or adapt them for different markets?

4. What type of organizational structure does it have?

5. Which of the two types of international strategy does it seem to follow? (Multinational Strategy or Global Strategy ) explain

6. Does the company make use of work teams?