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Topic 1: Giving local culture it's due.

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 * Assume you are a manager in a multinational corporation that needs to send a
team of three to five people to Saudi Arabia for about two weeks to investigate
the possibility of selling your products there. What advice should you give them
to help assure that cultural problems do not impede their success in this task?
 * Assume your company is from North America or Europe and considering
establishing an office in Saudi Arabia. Which additional operating costs might it
have to assume because of the Saudi culture?
 * What industries tend to be particularly subject to cultural differences? Why?

Be specific. Support your views with references to the required course materials.
Provide concrete examples of both cultural elements and specific countries.

Please use


Please use our Text book as one of the references.

Textbook: Daniels, J. D., Radebaugh, L. H. & Sullivan, D. P. (2015). International
business. Environments and operations (15th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson

Pages : 46-49



Topic 2:

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Directions:

1. Read (Textbook. Same as above), “Anglo American PLC in South Africa: What Do You
Do When Costs Reach Epidemic Proportions,” pp. 425-428.


2. View the Michael Porter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iIh5YYDR2o and World
Economic Forum videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6eWgDxJW_Y

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The New Sustainability Champions<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6eWgDxJW_Y>
www.youtube.com
http://www.weforum.org/nsc The New Sustainability Champions are sixteen emerging
market based companies presented by the World Economic Forum and the Boston ...

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Michael Porter: Why business can be good at solving social
...<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iIh5YYDR2o>
www.youtube.com
Why do we turn to nonprofits, NGOs and governments to solve society's biggest
problems? Michael Porter admits he's biased, as a business school professor, bu...


3. Select two multinational corporations: Mcdonalds & Nike

4. Go to the two MNCs’ websites and locate their most recent CSR reports, also often
called corporate citizenship, sustainability, or corporate responsibility reports.

To locate the reports: Go to the Global Reporting Initiative's superb database
http://database.globalreporting.org/ (22,670 reports from 7,114 organizations),
enter organizations name in search box. Or http://www.csrwire.com/reports and 
http://www.wbcsd.org/publications-and-tools.aspx and scroll down to “latest case
studies.” There is http://globaledge.msu.edu/industries/ and you can always use
“Google” to locate company reports.

[http://database.globalreporting.org/img/ui/logo-gri-new-100x80.png]<http://database.globalreporting.org/>

Sustainability Disclosure Database - Home<http://database.globalreporting.org/>
database.globalreporting.org
SEARCH. Discover thousands of reports and reporting organizations. MY ORGANIZATION.
Profile your organization, your reporting, and your GRI reporting examples.


5. Compare and contrast the information provided by the two companies' reports.

• Are there differences between the two reports in terms of the range of issues
dealt with and the depth of coverage on specific issues, risk areas (labor,
environment, human rights, supplier relationships, bribery, corruption, health,
animal testing, etc.)? Do you think these differences can be explained by industry
differences or the national origins of the MNCs or by the location of their foreign
operations?

• The Anglo American PLC and other examples in DRS and videos of corporate
responsibility initiatives suggest that emerging markets present both opportunities
(generate profits, create societal value) and risks (pose challenging operating
environments) for MNCs. In the two reports you chose are there examples of the
companies going beyond their legal responsibilities to creating shared value, of how
they are achieving the perception of being socially responsible by the local
communities in the foreign countries where they operate? Be sure to apply Porter’s
framework in your analysis.