Critical Memo on Businesses' Cultural Issues
Double space, Times New Roman font, size12, word doc. DO NOT USE EXTERNAL SOURCES.
Chapter 3 readings and the 3 articles are in the files.
Critical memos should not summarize the readings. Rather, they should critically engage In commenting and generating thought-provoking insights on specific dimenslons of the topic being examined. Your memo must convey one main critical argument that expresses and justifies your personal insights resulting from an in depth reading of the course material and the subsequent reflection over thelr content and implications. Here are some examples about how you can go for your memo:
1. Identify a news that contradicts/reinforces/expand a concept or framework or position discussed in the lecture/manual/reading/news articles that were assigned. Elaborate on how the real-world happenings described in the news relate to the course content. For example, is the news at odds with a position or argument presented in a reading?
2. Formulate one or two questions raising doubts about the effectiveness/strength/importance of a concept or case study examined in the lecture or assigned reading(s). Elaborate on that, providing examples and/or conceptual arguments that support the value of your questions.
No need to provide a definitive answer to your own questions. The task is to create doubts and highlight weaknesses in mainstream thinking on international business.
3. Draw the attention on some unexplored implications of the concepts/frameworks/cases/news examined in the class. E.g., is any concept explaining more than the manual or the professor suggest? Is there any dark/bright side of a specific business experience that is not dealt with?
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National business and international businesses are dissimilar due to Varied cultures. When Best Buy arrived in China, it was hit by cultural jolts. First, Chinese citizens were unwilling to pay for Best Buy's excessively expensive items. Second, most Chinese did not want to shop in huge megastores. Lastly, people could access cheap pirated electronic products. Consequently, the inability of the business to understand cultural factors, such as the locals' buying habits, beliefs, demands, and values, made this organization, which was successful elsewhere in the world, struggle in China. eBay also faced similar cultural issues. The company could not produce a service with instant messages; the only factor that made shoppers use an alternative firm, Taobao.
Can other nations feel threatened by another country's culture?
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