Background Information and Analysis

Background Information and Analysis
These are the question:

1, Resource Based View of the firm rationale. Resource Based View of the Firm ? and selection.
2, Value Chain rationale Value Chain Framework (Porter) ? and selection.
3, Simply rank your top 5 companies and provide a rationale for your decision according to the question 1&2.

 

 

Required Reading
• Dyer, J., Kale, P., & Singh, H. (2001, Summer). How to make strategic alliances work. Sloan Management Review, 42 (4). ). (Custom Textbook (2012), Managing Strategy in the Global Marketplace. Chapter 26 pp 600-608.)
• Dyer, J., Kale, P., & Singh, H. (2004, July-August). When to ally & when to acquire. Harvard Business Review, 82 (7). ). (Custom Textbook (2012), Managing Strategy in the Global Marketplace. Chapters 27 pp 609-624.)
• Custom Textbook (2012), Managing Strategy in the Global Marketplace. Chapter 11 Corporate Strategy: Acquisitions, Alliances, and Networks
• Various International Investment Reports which will be provided in the Conference Area.
Multimedia
• YouTube – What Makes a Good Merger?
• YouTube – Why is culture so important in mergers?
• YouTube – Mergers and Acquisitions: Key Concepts
• YouTube – Mergers + Acquisitions Part 1 Video 1
• YouTube – Business Growth By Acquisition
MBA Reference Guides
• M&A – Mergers and Acquisitions
• Foreign Market Entry Modes
• The Value Chain
• Vertical Integration
• Horizontal Integration

Based upon your research and analysis, select the Target Company in your selected BRIC country, that your team will be looking to make an acquisition or joint venture with. Provide reasons for your decision based upon your research and on the various assigned readings so far this semester or from prior semesters (properly cite these)
Identify a short list of potential target companies (at least two) for acquisition or as joint venture partners in the BRIC country you have selected for the project and provide a rationale for considering each one, and select one to be the target based upon your analysis. Also specify whether this will be an acquisition or joint venture and your reasons why.
NOTE: In each of the elements of the Team Project, use some of the strategic management frameworks you have been learning about it this course or in your prior courses. These include:

A. Industry structural characteristics rationale. Five Competitive Forces (Porter)
B. Competitive advantage rationale. Competitive Advantage (Porter)
C. Resource Based View of the firm rationale. Resource Based View of the Firm
D. Value Chain rationale Value Chain Framework (Porter)
E. Vertical integration rationale Vertical Integration
F. Horizontal integration rationale Horizontal Integration
G. Financial rationale Risk Management and RAROC
H. Political, Economic, Social, Technological Factors PEST Analysis
I. Other rationales.
The Final Paper
Integrate the work from the prior Steps of the Team Project into one overall paper. The outline for this is included in the Team Project Description under Course Content and is repeated below. Use this opportunity to incorporate any feedback suggestions from the Instructor or FA that you have received on the earlier Steps.
The first sentence of your Executive Summary should read as follows:

“Team ___ DCA consulting __________ recommends that _____Coca-Cola__________, a major multinational company in the _____ Food, Beverage and Tobacco _________industry, enter the BRIC markets, initially targeting __ Chinese _________ as the first country, through an acquisition (or joint venture with) ___________, one of the key local companies in the ___ FB&T ________industry.
International Acquisition Proposal

I. Background Information and Analysis
A. The global structure and environment of the selected industry.
B. The home country structure and environment of the selected industry.
C. The importance of the BRIC countries to the selected industry.

II. Determination of the target BRIC country for the proposed acquisition.
A. Comparative risk, opportunity and overall business climate of the BRIC countries.
B. Comparative industry market potential and structure of the BRIC countries.
C. Selection, with rationale of the target BRIC country.

III. Determination of the target company to be acquired.
A. Key multinational and local players in the target industry in the target country.
B. Selection, with rationale of the target company to be acquired.

NOTE: In each of the elements of the Team Project, use some of the strategic management frameworks you have been learning about it this course or in your prior courses. These include:

A. Industry structural characteristics rationale. Five Competitive Forces (Porter)
B. Competitive advantage rationale. Competitive Advantage (Porter)
C. Resource Based View of the firm rationale. Resource Based View of the Firm
D. Value Chain rationale Value Chain Framework (Porter)
E. Vertical integration rationale Vertical Integration
F. Horizontal integration rationale Horizontal Integration
G. Financial rationale Risk Management and RAROC
H. Political, Economic, Social, Technological Factors PEST Analysis
I. Other rationales.

The potential company is Coca-Cola to invest within the recommended Chinese market. From your analysis, simply rank your top 5 companies and provide a rationale for your decision according to the section that you have volunteered for.
This are the question:
1, Resource Based View of the firm rationale. Resource Based View of the Firm – and selection.
2, Value Chain rationale Value Chain Framework (Porter) – and selection.

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