Global Strategies and
the Multinational Corporation
IMPLICATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
Patterns of Internationalization
HIGH
TRADING GLOBAL
INDUSTRIES INDUSTRIES
• shipbuilding • automobiles
• military hardware • oil
International Trade
• diamond mining • semiconductors
• agriculture • alcoholic beverages
SHELTERED MULTIDOMESTIC
INDUSTRIES INDUSTRIES
•taxi services •frozen foods
•laundries/dry cleaning • retail banking
•hairdressing • hotels
LO W
•fresh milk • wireless telephony
LOW Foreign Direct Investment HIGH
IMPLICATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
What Internationalization Means
for Industry Analysis
PROFITABILITY
COMPETITION
INDUSTRY STRUCTURE
• Lower entry barriers into national markets
• Increased industry rivalry —lower seller concentration
—greater diversity of competitors
• Increased buyer power —buyers have more potential
suppliers to choose from
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE WITHIN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
Porter’s National Diamond Framework
FACTOR CONDITIONS
RELATING AND
DEMAND
SUPPORTING
CONDITIONS INDUSTRIES
STRATEGY, STRUCTURE,
AND RIVALRY
Consistency between Strategy and National
Resource Conditions
In globally-competitive industries, firm strategy needs to take
account of national conditions:
Dispersion of value chain to exploit different national
environments
MULTINATIONAL STRATEGIES
Ghemewat’s CAGE Framework
Cultural Administrative Geographical Economic
distance and Political distance differences
Distance
Distance • Different • Absence of shared • Lack of common • Different
languages, political or border, or consumer
between
ethnicities, monetary transportation incomes
two religions, social association or communication • Differences in
countries norms links
• Political hostility resources
increases
• Lack of • Weak legal and • Physical • Different
with connecting financial institutions remoteness information or
ethnic /social knowledge
networks
Industries Industries with Industries viewed Products with low Products with
high linguistic by government as value-to-weight income elastic
most affected
content (TV, strategically (cement), or demand (luxuries).
by source of publishing) or important (e.g. fragile (glass) Labor intensive
distance cultural content energy, defence, or perishable products (clothing)
(food, wine, telecom) (milk), or where
music) communication
vital (financial
services)
Globalization & Global Strategy:
What Are They?
• GLOBAL STRATEGY
o At simplest level: Treating the world as a single market:
standard products, distributed & marketed
o At more sophisticated level: Strategy that recognizes and
exploits linkages between countries
Global Integration v. National Differentiation
Jet engines
Autos
Consumer
electronics Telecom
equipment
Benefits
of
global
integration
Investment
banking
Retail
Cement banking
Auto Funeral
repair services
Benefits of national differentiation