International business environment covering political-legal environment (democracy vs totalitarianism types, political risk types, managing political risk strategies), legal systems (Islamic law, socialist law, civil law, common law), two basic legal system types, intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks), three layers (home environment, host environment, global environment), dispute resolution (conciliation, arbitration, litigation), MNC legal considerations.
Difference between domestic and international business covering scope comparison, market fluctuations, detailed comparison across multiple dimensions (environment, competition, currency, business risks, research, human resources, organizational vision, product development, legal aspects, investment, pricing, distribution, promotion, logistics, nationality of participants and stakeholders, customer heterogeneity, business regulations controllability), complexity factors in international business operations.
Globalisation concepts, problems and challenges covering definition (economic, social, cultural, political phenomenon), integration of economies (technology, communication, trading blocs), trade vs aid debate, corporate expansion (MNCs/TNCs characteristics), corporate domination issues, obstacles to Indian business globalization (government policy, high cost, poor infrastructure, obsolescence, resistance to change, poor quality image, supply problems, small size, lack of experience, limited R&D, growing competition, trade barriers, corruption), factors favoring Indian globalization (human resources, wide base, growing entrepreneurship, domestic market, niche markets, NRIs, economic liberalization, competition), Indian business globalization background, benefits and problems comparison.
E-business and globalisation covering nature of e-business (end-to-end processes), e-business vs e-commerce, models (B2B, B2C, C2C, C2B), impediments to e-business (strategy, financial, technology concerns), e-business applications, strategy and structure, globalisation of Indian business through IT/BPO/KPO.
Global business strategy covering global ambition (GRI, GCI indices, types of global players), global positioning (choice of countries, value proposition, standardization), global business system (value chain elements, capabilities), global organization (structure, processes, coordination, HRM), global corporate strategy.