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International Business Environment
My Firm's Acquisition You write a (4-8) page report answers: • As a CEO, acquire a foreign firm. The size firm double, largest industry. What firm foreign firm acquire ? Where firms based? •You enthusiastic opportunity a leading captain industry power, prestige, income.
Greys Technological Company Acquisition
Grey Technological Company (GTC) is a corporation with interests in Information Technology and Telecommunications (IT&T) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) located in the United States. It is one of the leading technological firms, which manufactures and exports IT&T products. For over 15 years, we have been selling these products, in the central and northwest regions of the United States. During the initial seven years of our business, we have succeeded in expanding globally in Argentina, Mexico and Chile.
The target company is a foreign IT firm that located in India that has interests in Online Computer Games (OCG). They are a group of internationally known OCG developers and have a significant market share in the region. The company possesses a well-established distribution network in the region. The acquisition of the company will propel us into the position of industry leaders. But from experience, mergers and acquisitions do not always proceed as smoothly as expected. Despite...
In emerging economies, communication systems are relatively underdeveloped. Due to this inefficiency in communication systems, building of the brand is difficult (Javidan, 2006). However, from research done in the target country, most of products in the market are of poor quality. This gives our company an upper hand since quality and good brands are highly regarded in these regions. Political issues (Managing the firm-government relationship) are also an institution-based issue. In practice, strategizing the firm government relationship is a challenge for firms (Watkins, 2003), especially foreign firms (i.e. Foreign subsidiaries) that operate in transition economies Peng M.W, 2002()
Normally, before an acquisition of any firm, a process known as pre-acquisition screening is done. This involves an audit of all the assets of the targeted company, and it evaluates the company's worth, number of its employees and their value to the company and consequentially how much is to be paid for its acquisition. It targets resource-based issues that are likely to arise from the venture (Javidan, 2006). Our pre-acquisition screening revealed limited and mismanaged resources in a poorly…
References
Javidan, M. (2006). Mergers and acquisitions: creating integrative knowledge. New York:
Wiley-Blackwell.
Mendenhall, M.E. (2005). Mergers and acquisitions: managing culture and human resources.
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