QB – International Business and International Trade

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🌍 International Business & Trade – Question Bank (MBA 302)

International Business & International Trade च्या या Question Bank मध्ये Globalization, WTO, International Trade Theories, Balance of Payment, Foreign Exchange Market, FDI, MNCs, International Strategy, Marketing, HRM यांसारख्या महत्त्वाच्या विषयांचा समावेश आहे.

हा प्रश्नसंच Descriptive Questions (5 marks), Concept-based Short Notes, आणि Unit-wise Important Questions यांसह परीक्षेत विचारले जाणारे प्रश्न एका ठिकाणी देतो.

या प्रश्नसंचामुळे विद्यार्थ्यांना:
✅ Unit-wise अभ्यास करणं सोपं जातं
✅ Core concepts सहज समजतात
✅ Exam साठी Fast revision करता येतं
✅ Global trade, economy, आणि business strategies चं clear understanding मिळतं

सततच्या सरावाने विद्यार्थी international trade आणि business management चे fundamentals स्पष्टपणे शिकू शकतात आणि MBA परीक्षेत scoring करू शकतात. 🌐📘🚀

🌍 Globalization म्हणजे काय, त्याचे Drivers आणि त्याचा International Business वर होणारा प्रभाव
🏛️ विविध देशांतील Political Systems, Legal Systems आणि Culture यांचा व्यवसायावर कसा परिणाम होतो
📊 International Trade Theories – जसे की Absolute Advantage, Comparative Advantage & Heckscher-Ohlin Theory
🤝 Regional Economic Integration आणि त्याचे फायदे व धोके (EU, SAARC, ASEAN इत्यादी)
🌐 World Trade Organization (WTO) चे structure, roles आणि त्याचे International Trade मध्ये महत्त्व
💱 Balance of Payment आणि Foreign Exchange Market कसे काम करते, त्याचे भारतातील स्वरूप
🏢 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) चे प्रकार, धोरणे आणि भारतातील FDI Trends
📈 Multinational Companies (MNCs) ची Entry Strategies, Business Strategy, आणि International Marketing

Course Content

Globalization and International Business

Q 1.1. Why countries indulge in international trade?
Q 1.2. What do you understand if we say that countries are more integrated in the past 4 decades? What are the reasons behind the same?
Q 1.3. What are the key critiques of globalization?
Q 1.4. How the challenges of a firm involved in international business are different from those that have domestic operations only.

National Differences in Political Economy, Culture and Economic Development

International Trade Theories

Regional Economic Integration

The Political Economy of International Trade

World Trade Organization (WTO)

The Balance of Payments and Foreign Exchange Markets

International Monetary System

Foreign Direct Investment

International Business Strategy

Multinational Companies (MNCs) and Entry Strategies

International Marketing

Supply-Chain Management for MNCs

Financial Management for MNCs

Accounting for Multinational Operations

International Human Resource Management

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Course Content

Globalization and International Business

Q 1.1. Why countries indulge in international trade?

Q 1.2. What do you understand if we say that countries are more integrated in the past 4 decades? What are the reasons behind the same?

Q 1.3. What are the key critiques of globalization?

Q 1.4. How the challenges of a firm involved in international business are different from those that have domestic operations only.

National Differences in Political Economy, Culture and Economic Development

Q 2.1. Distinguish between common laws, civil laws and religious laws.

Q 2.2. Explain different aspects democracy as captured by components of the Democracy Index.

Q 2.3. How the political system of an economy influence businesses?

Q 2.4. Discuss if the cultures are converging due to globalization.

Q 2.5. How religion influences business? Discuss.

International Trade Theories

Q 3.1. Explain H-O theory along with its assumption.

Q 3.2. What do you understand from factor price equalization? In what way can the international trade be said to have contributed to increased wage inequality in the U.S.?

Q 3.3. Suppose a country Pogo exports Touchpad and imports Pharmaceutical Goods. An empirical study shows that the import and export data of Pogo confirms Heckscher-Ohlin theorem. Identify the abundant and scars factors of production of Pogo?

Q 3.4. Explain the reasons for intra-industry trade.

Q 3.5. Discuss Porter’s National Competitive Advantage.

Regional Economic Integration

Q 4.1. What are the dynamic gains of economic integration?

Q 4.2. How trade creation is different from trade diversion?

Q 4.3. Discuss three types of economic integration.

Q 4.4. What gains have been attained by EU by formulating a single market?

Q 4.5. Name three agreements that India has with other countries.

The Political Economy of International Trade

Q 5.1. Discuss different types of non-tariff barriers.

Q 5.2. How an import-substitution policy can be harmful for a country?

Q 5.3. Discuss three key arguments in favour of protectionism.

Q 5.4. What do you understand from Strategic Trade Policy? What should a country do if it finds that domestic companies from an emerging industry do not have a first-mover advantage?

Q 5.5. Local content requirement increase the domestic production but it is a protectionist measure. Do you agree with this statement? Explain

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Q 6.1. What do you understand from GATS?

Q 6.2. Explain the reason behind introduction of TRIPs in WTO.

Q 6.3. What is the basic objective of Dispute settlement mechanism?

Q 6.4. How WTO facilitates international business?

The Balance of Payments and Foreign Exchange Markets

Q 7.1. What are the main components of Balance of Payment? Give the list of items of each of the component.

Q 7.2. Distinguish between ADRs and GDRs.

Q 7.3. What are the major challenges in the recent future for Indian Balance of Payment?

Q 7.4. What do you understand by the term “Foreign Exchange”?

Q 7.5. What are the functions of a Foreign Exchange Market and who are its main players?

Q 7.6. How uncertainty in foreign exchange market can influence a manager of international business?

Q 7.7. How is exchange rate determined as per purchasing power parity theory?

International Monetary System

Q 8.1. How do you measure the robustness of an international monetary system?

Q 8.2. What is a reserve currency? What are its functions and name the factors that lead to a currency being termed as reserve currency.

Q 8.3. What are the main purposes of IMF?

Q 8.4. What lead to the end of Bretton Woods System?

Q 8.5. How did Gold Standard work as a monetary system?

Foreign Direct Investment

Q 9.1. Explain how product life cycle is related to FDI.

Q 9.2. Explain the difference between horizontal and vertical FDI with examples.

Q 9.3. What are the advantages for a host country in attracting FDI.

Q 9.4. Name 5 different factors that can make India an attractive destination for FDI.

International Business Strategy

Q 10.1. Discuss four types of strategies that a firm can choose from to operate its international business.

Q 10.2. Explain the need of strategy for international business.

Q 10.3. Discuss the problems associated with International Division as an organization structure for an international firm.

Q 10.4. If a firm intends to have local responsiveness and product division as well, what organization structure it will prefer? Discuss in detail.

Q 10.5. Discuss about Global Corporate Social Responsibility.

Multinational Companies (MNCs) and Entry Strategies

Q 11.1. Discuss different types of licensing agreements.

Q 11.2. What are the three parameters used by firms to measure the relative significance of each mode-choice?

Q 11.3. Distinguish between externalization modes from internalization modes. Give an example of each.

Q 11.4. What are the strategic reasons for a firm to license technology?

Q 11.5. Explain the difference between merger and acquisition.

International Marketing

Q 12.1. Can a firm have same marketing mix for all the countries in which it sells the product? Give reason for your answer.

Q 12.2. What are the different factors that affect international pricing of the product? Discuss.

Q 12.3. What is price discrimination? Explain.

Q 12.4. What do you understand from parallel imports? How the producer and consumer of the product are affected by such imports.

Q 12.5. Explain standardized advertising and its benefits. Will a firm in international business always choose such an advertising strategy? Why or why not?

Q 12.6. Discuss the different components of the distribution system.

Supply-Chain Management for MNCs

Q 13.1. Discuss some factors that play a role in deciding best destination to outsource.

Q 13.2. Distinguish between outsourcing and off-shoring.

Q 13.3. Explain vertical integration and its two types.

Q 13.4. What are the choices a firm face in terms of sourcing? Discuss.