Entering New Businesses

Excerpt from Entering New Businesses: Selecting the Strategies for Success Selection from the alternative strategies available for entering new businesses is a key issue for diversifying corporations. Alternative approaches include internal development, acquisition, licensing, joint ventures, and minority venture capital investments. An intensive literature review is used to devise a matrix of company "familiarity" with relevant market and technological experiences and to demonstrate the conceptual utility of the matrix for entry strategy choice. Performance data on 14 business development episodes by one successful diversified technological firm are used to support the selection concepts embodied in the "familiarity matrix". About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Strategic Management (2020) is a 325-page open educational resource designed as an introduction to the key topics and themes of strategic management. The open textbook is intended for a senior capstone course in an undergraduate business program and suitable for a wide range of undergraduate business students including those majoring in marketing, management, business administration, accounting, finance, real estate, business information technology, and hospitality and tourism. The text presents examples of familiar companies and personalities to illustrate the different strategies used by today's firms and how they go about implementing those strategies. It includes case studies, end of section key takeaways, exercises, and links to external videos, and an end-of-book glossary. The text is ideal for courses which focus on how organizations operate at the strategic level to be successful. Students will learn how to conduct case analyses, measure organizational performance, and conduct external and internal analyses.

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If Amazon can't win in China, can anyone? When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visited China in 2007, he expected that one day soon China would be a double-digit percentage of Amazon's sales. Yet, by 2019, Amazon, the most powerful and successful ecommerce company in the world, had quit China. In Winning in China: 8 Stories of Success and Failure in the World's Largest Economy, Wharton experts Lele Sang and Karl Ulrich explore the success and failure of several well-known companies, including Hyundai, LinkedIn, Sequoia Capital, and InMobi, as more and more businesses look to reap profits from the demand of 1.4 billion people. Sang, Global Fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Ulrich, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Wharton School, answer four critical questions: Which factors explain the success (or failure) of foreign companies entering China?What challenges and pitfalls can a company entering China expect to encounter? How can a prospective entrant realistically assess its chances? Which managerial decisions are critical, and which approaches are most effective? Sang and Ulrich answer these questions by examining the stories of eight well-known and respected companies that have entered China. They study: How Norwegian Cruise Line's entry into China displays how cultural differences can boost or sink different companies; How Intel, one of the oldest, most respected firms in Silicon Valley, thrived in a country that seems to favor agile upstarts; How Zegna, the Italian luxury brand, has emerged as another surprising success story and how it plans to navigate new headwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic.Through these engaging and illuminating stories, Sang and Ulrich offer a framework and path for organizations looking for a way to successfully enter the world's largest economy. History can be a teacher, and China, a country with 3,500 years of written history, has much to teach.

Do you aspire to turn your dreams and ideas into a legitimate small business? Does the task seem daunting, confusing, or perhaps even unattainable? How to Turn Your BIG IDEA Into a New Business will help bring your ideas to fruition by teaching the nuts and bolts of successfully beginning your small business enterprise. This book presents practice-proven steps on how to: determine the feasibility of your business concept write an outstanding business plan buy an existing business evaluate franchise opportunities borrow money for your business start-up This book also serves as a wonderful reference for existing business owners to help run their businesses more profitably. With real-life success (and failure ) stories to guide you through the process, How to Turn Your BIG IDEA Into a New Business provides entertaining, easy-to-follow steps that will help you on your way to creating a successful business of your own. Author Steve Falldine is a full-time franchise consultant for The ServiceMaster Company and works part-time as a counselor and instructor at the Collin Small Business Development Center in Plano, Texas. He makes 40 appearances a year as guest lecturer for the Collin College School of Business, local chambers of commerce, as well as other business and educational venues. Steve grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and Oklahoma City, and now he and his family live in Carrollton, Texas. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/HowToTurnYourBIGIDEAIntoANewBusiness.htm

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Find the money to execute your brilliant business ideas Funding a Startup For Dummies drills down to the top question on the minds of entrepreneurs—where can you find the funds to launch your new business? Connecting the dots between your vision and the capital needed to make it happen can be one of the most challenging parts of entrepreneurship. This book helps you over that hurdle, giving you the essential information and advice you need to navigate the path from idea to execution of a business plan. Discover how to evaluate all the options available, from tapping into your own savings to traditional loans to newer options like crowdfunding. You’ll also dive into finding and negotiating with investors, as well as managing your capital once it’s in hand. Start by visualizing business success, and then put in the work to make it happen, with the help of this no-nonsense Dummies guide. Get an intro to the world of small-business finance Assess your financing needs and take stock of your current assets Evaluate your options for loans, grands, and subsidies Learn to approach investors and pitch your business idea Anyone in the early days of launching a business will find a treasure trove of valuable information in Funding a Startup For Dummies.