Case Analysis- Wal-Mart Introduction The implementation of Wal-Mart’s strategy in China has failed to achieve the desired sales results. Despite being the leading retailer in the world, Wal-Mart’s model of success that provides a key competitive advantage in the U.S. does not equally translate to diverse international communities. Likewise, Wal-Mart struggled in Germany and eventually withdrew by selling its stores to rival Metro. Despite the challenges currently being faced in China, Wal-Mart has experienced international success in Mexico, Canada and Britain. What long-term strategy should Wal-Mart adopt in China?
This calculated move by Google allowed them to legally circumvent China's censorship and shut down of their search engine by re-directing all search queries from google.cn to google.com.hk. But this move was still jeopardizing Google's Internet Content Provider license issued to them by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. To solve this problem, Google stopped re-directing all searches to google.com.hk and started to offer a link to it at the bottom of the google.cn search page. Because Google decided to comply with China's censorship their market share of 29% in 2010 declined to 1.7% in 2013. Legal, Cultural and Ethical Challenges For Google, the legal, cultural and ethical challenges they faced in China turned out to be insurmountable.
While Richard Milhous Nixon is seen as the worst president in the history of the United States of America, many people and historians also believe he did “one thing right.” That “one thing”0 would be his trip to China or as Richard Nixon himself referred to it -“the week that changed the world”0 However did it really change the world? Or was it just a political move made by the Nixon administration in an election year? Though the visit to China did help in opening up trade and communication, it was useless for President Nixon to personally go to China, and was not a history changing event like it was portrayed. In the year of 1971 it was revealed that a top secret meeting was held in China between America’s top foreign relations officer -Henry
Being an educated or skilled immigrant would most likely mean that the steps to naturalization, as in the mandatory costs and testing, would be less of a challenge to fulfill. In Chapter four of the text Racial and Ethnic Groups (REG), it states that “The brain drain is the immigration to the United States of skilled workers, professionals, and technicians who are desperately needed by their home countries.”(REG, chapter four, p. 103) This would cause some reluctance in my decision to migrate to America from China. The fact that I would be possibly taking away something that benefits my native country could cause some second thought. This may not be a major factor if the political system in China had a negative effect on my economic advancement. The same could be said if I was looking for an education in America and eventually decided to stay instead of returning to China because of the lack of opportunity for growth.
However, as mentioned in the case, “senior management had not felt respected by their US headquarters, which had not given them enough autonomy and had directed the from afar instead”, it seemed like as time progressed, Ebay started taking too much control over the company without fully learning the consumer behaviors, nor the significance of cultural differences between China and United States. For example, the DIY culture in the West was not well adapted in China as the Chinese customers preferred the finished products that they don’t have to worry about putting the components together. Ebay was solely operating under the assumption that the Chinese people would prefer it just because its brand image in the United States, therefore it made very little modifications that adjust itself to Chinese consumers’ preferences. As a result of that, it lost market shares to
They state this to try to show how the Chinese refuse to assimilate. They are using this as proof to show how the Chinese are just too different from the US population and how they don’t respect our views and culture. Although I think it is fair to say the committee is doing the exact thing they
The Kings were converts of Christianity just to establish closer relations with Portuguese whereas Chinese has great problems with the exclusivity of Christianity but the Jesuits were respectful of Chinese culture and won a few converts. China had an outstanding naval capacity in the early 1400s and the Chinese used a tribute system as a basis for trade and restricted access of foreign traders to Chinese markets, particularly by limiting them to specified ports under controls established by the central government. China experienced economic changes,
Executive Summary Shanghai Tang is a luxury brand company that draws its inspiration from historical Chinese culture. In doing so they were able to capitalize on the intrigue that western nationals felt towards the end of British control of Hong Kong. As people came to visit before Hong Kong became Chinese, they were able to see Chinese fashion influences. Now, the world is making moves into China as they now see the growing potential it has causing a threat to Shanghai Tang’s domestic market while other Chinese inspired companies are threatening their domestic market. If that wasn’t enough the companies long-time creative director, Joanne Ooi, is leaving the company creating a void in the leadership role of the company’s brand vision.
Demand for such vehicles can not be designed based on the jeep AMC existing, and the vehicle as desired from the Beijing Automotive Works (BAW) cost at least a $700 million. BJC and the AMC do not have the amount of money like that, and then try to convince the AMC Chinese to produce the new vehicle type Jeep Cherokee. It appeared that after convinced, the Chinese partners agreed then changed objectivity AMC began selling the cars to get money and selling the kits to get money. Appears a new problem where BJC can get foreign exchange for these kits. According to the rules when a number of foreign exchange in large numbers required a special license meanwhile BJC had never discuss about this to the Chinese government.
This makes it difficult to know for certain what exactly what went wrong and why. Any analysis requires reliance on speculation and raises as many, if not more, questions than it answers. It is still worth looking into because it shows some important points that other companies can learn from. Background Caterpillar has had difficulty establishing a position in China comparable to its position in the rest of the world. In order to grow its operations China, Caterpillar decided to take a route that has proven successful for many MNCs operating in the PRC and use M&A rather than build things from scratch.