Journal

Your final project consists of creating a presentation that highlights the challenges of expanding your company into a new country. The following criteria must be included:

Background of company and of country

Cultural influences on business

Economic and legal influences on business

Political and government influences on trade/business

Involvement in international organizations

Importing/exporting strategies

Recommendations: Do you recommend expanding into this country? What would be the most effective plan of action for your corporation to expand?

Your presentation consists of both a paper and an audio/visual. The latter can be accomplished through a PowerPoint with audio or through Screencast-O-Matic.

Each week you will be researching a topic specific to this presentation and presenting your findings in this journal format. Though the entire class has access to reading the journals, only you and I have the ability to edit the entries. Journals are graded every week.

Journal: Assess your company's industry structure. Use the five-forces model (see video below) to highlight the relationships among suppliers of inputs, buyers of outputs, substitute products, potential new entrants and rivalry among competing firms. Include in-text citations and references, all other APA guidelines are not required for Journal Entries.