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Term Project

MGT 4478: Managing in a Global Environment

Troy University

Section One; Country Study:

                  Assume your company has decided to expand their US business into an international business. You have been asked by your company to research potential countries to determine which country they should expand their business to as their first overseas venture.

Assignment Criteria:

1. Introduction
   1. Pick a real organization to use as your template organization for this project. The organization can be a large multinational organization, a large domestic organization, a small organization, or your current (or previous) employer. State whether your organization will be selling a product (state product type), selling a service (state service), or set-up a manufacturing facility (state type of manufacturing). 
   2. Research and determine a country that you would recommend to your CEO for international expansion. State the name of the country you will be recommending for international expansion.  

1. Perform a country study to help determine the any potential issues, costs, and the benefits of doing business in a particular country.  At the end of your study, write a brief summary (250 words or more) that concludes your findings highlighting some of the challenges, benefits, costs, etc associated with entering this country.

Below is a list of the environmental factors you need to study and discuss in your study.

Economic/Geographic:

• GDP
  • GDP –real growth rate
  • GDP – per capita
• Labor
  • By occupation
• Total Exports
  • Exports – commodities
  • Exports - partners
• Total Imports
  • Import – commodities
  • Import - partners
• Infrastructure – physical (transportation) & informational (communication)
• Unemployment
• Industries
  • Industries growth rate

Geographic:

• Natural resources
• Access to resources and raw materials
• Climate
• Land use
• Current environmental issues
• Natural Hazards

Political-Legal:

• Type of government
• Political stability
• Foreign investment and approval procedures
• Regulatory requirements
• Labor and employment laws
• Governmental assistance programs for foreign businesses
• Tax laws and applicable treaties

Under External Links in our course I have provided you with a link to the CIA factbook, this is a great resource to find out many of the above facts about a country.  I do require that you use at least two additional sources to complete this assignment.  PLEASE remember to cite all your sources; proper citation of your sources is a requirement for this course. This assignment is to be a minimum of 2 - 4 pages typed, font 12, double-spaced.

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MGT 4478: Managing in a Global Environment

Troy University

 I can’t word the information correctly. This Need’s a summary and to be worded better. Company before country. I need it Sunday Feb 18, 10:00 PM

Country

Germany is a country that I would recommend to my CEO for international expansion. Germany is Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation trailing behind Russia. Germany is a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. The German Government introduced a minimum wage in 2015 that increased to $9.79 (8.84 euros) in January 2017. Slower spending and higher tax revenues reduced the deficit to 0.8% in 2011 and in 2017, Germany reached a budget surplus of 0.7%. Germany is one of the United States’ closest and strongest allies in Europe. U.S. relations with Germany are based on our close and vital relationship, as friends, trading partners, and allies sharing common institutions. Our political, economic, and security relationships, critical to shared prosperity and continued stability, are based on extensive people-to-people ties and close coordination at the most senior levels. Most recently, the United States and Germany have been working closely together to counter Russian aggression in Ukraine, negotiate a political solution to the crisis in Syria, and to curb the Iranian nuclear program.

Company

Apple Inc. offers product and services. It is an American manufacturer of personal computers, computer peripherals, and computer software. It is one of the first successful personal computer companies and the popularizer of the graphical user interface. Apple is the world’s largest information technology company by revenue and the world’s second largest mobile phone manufacturer after Samsung. In February 2015, Apple became the first U.S. company to be valued at over U.S. $700 billion. The company employs 123,000 full-time employees as of September 2017 and maintains 499 retails stores in 22 countries as of December 2017. It operates the iTunes Store, which is the world's largest music retailer. As of January 2016, more than one billion Apple products are actively in use worldwide.

Apple's worldwide annual revenue totaled $229 billion for the 2017 fiscal year. The company enjoys a high level of brand loyalty and has been repeatedly ranked as the world's most valuable brand.

Economy

As of 2017, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) real growth rate increased from 1.9% to 2.1% and the per capita rate increased from 49,300 to 50,200 in 2017. Services is Germany’s occupation, industry is second with 24.2% and agriculture is low with only 1.4% of the labor force. Germany exports commodities such as, motor vehicles, machinery, computer and electronic products, electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, metals, rubber and plastic products. Exporting has increased to $1.401 trillion dollars. Germany’s export partners include the United States, France, Netherlands, China, Italy, Austria, Poland and Switzerland. Total amount of imports in 2017 was $1.104 Trillion dollars. Imports include: machinery, data processing equipment, vehicles, oil and gas, electric equipment, and agricultural products. Their partners include: Netherlands, China, France, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, United States, Switzerland, Austria and U.K.

The physical infrastructure includes transportation and their informal infrastructure includes communication. The unemployment rate for ages 15-24 is slightly lower for women than for men. Overall the rate decreased from the 2016 report of 4.2%.

Industries in Germany are among the world's largest and most technologically advanced producers of iron, steel, coal, machine tools, electronics, automobiles, shipbuilding. The growth rate is at 1.4% as of 2017. The

agriculture in Germany is comprised of potatoes, wheat, barley, fruit, cabbages; milk products; cattle, pigs, and poultry.

Geographic:

Germany has many natural resources such as coal, natural gas, iron ore, copper, nickel, uranium, salt, construction materials and timber. Access to the resources and raw materials such as electricity come from renewable sources, crude oil, refined petroleum products and natural gas. The Climate temperate and marine mainly consists of cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers are sometimes warm with mountain winds. Agriculture land utilizes 48% of the land, the forest uses 31.8% and 20.2% of the land is used for other things.

Current environmental issues in Germany include: emissions from coal-burning utilities and industries contribute to air pollution; acid rain, resulting from sulfur dioxide emissions, is damaging forests; pollution in the Baltic Sea from raw sewage and industrial effluents from rivers in eastern Germany; hazardous waste disposal; government established a mechanism for ending the use of nuclear power by 2022; Germany’s main natural hazards comes from flooding.

Political-Legal:

Germany has a federal parliamentary republic type government. Which means……

TheirPolitical stability- 

Germany has stock of Direct foreign investment

Foreign investment and approval procedures – stock of Direct foreign investment home $1.455 trillion (31 December 2017 est.)

$1.391 trillion (31 December 2016 est.)

FDI abroad $2.074 trillion (31 December 2017 est.)

$1.981 trillion (31 December 2016 est.) Regulatory requirements -

Labor and employment laws -

Governmental assistance programs for foreign businesses-

Tax laws and applicable treaties -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Apple-Inc

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3997.htm

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ This is were almost all most information comes from.