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.
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.
