INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (BUS 4220)


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Reading: Ch 1 Challenge of International Business * CETA * The World's Marketplaces * International Business Professional Certificate

Video: Outsourcing 2:27


Economic and Labor Forces

Reading: Ch 8 Economic and Socioeconomic Forces * CIA World Fact Book (General information) * International Market Potential Indicators (Inflation) * International Monetary Fund (Time-series) * World Higher Education Database * China C919 plane


Political and Legal Forces

Reading: Ch 9 Political Forces * AGOA (Africa Growth Opportunity Act) * NATO * Government of Canada * Find your MP * UN Members Contribution to Budget * Vienna Convention (The document for diplomats) * Chagos islands  * Law of War * Genocide Convention * No Queen protest * Decolonization - no oath in Canada


Financial Forces and International Financial Management

Reading: Ch 11 and 21 Financial Forces, and Financial Management and Accounting * Conference Board of Canada (Economic forecast) * Bank of Canada (Interest rate/inflation/foreign exchange) * Foreign Exchange (Converter) * Apple Corporate Tax Structure  * 15% min tax worldwide * Argentina-Brazil common currency * New currency in Sierra Leone * Currency Swap Lines * Inflation in Argentina  -- new note * Currency swap - China-Saudi * Malta as tax base * de-dollarization threat * Zimbabwe new currency


International Human Resource Management

Reading: Ch 20 Human Resources Management * Under 5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) * Human Development Index (Labor market) * World Happiness Report * Military Services * Passport Index: Visa Free Travel


Foreign Market Entry and Strategies

Reading: Ch 16 Mode of Entries


Export and Import Practices

Reading: Ch 17 Export and Import Practices * World bank (Database and leading indicators) * OECD (International trade indicators/time-series/XL)  * DHL Global Connectedness Index Database * Custom documents * Export Import Certificate * UN Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

Pictures: Bandar Abbas  * The border crossing  1 * 2 * 3 * 4 


International Operations Management

Reading: Ch 19 Global Operations and Supply Chain Management


Negotiations in International Business

 Simulation: Boiler Case * Sat-Store Case * Sat-store case description 


International Business groups


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Take-Home Exam topic

(It is a research-based assignment. Please follow the assignment guidelines in the context of international business.)

Name: topic