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For this assignment you will looking at two completely different companies that sell completely different types of products. However, both companies have strong international potential. As you read about in the background materials, different types of products lead to different types of strategies regarding standardization or adaptation and whether you decide to become a global, multi-domestic, or transnational corporation.
The first business you will look at is Roy Choi's restaurant empire. Choi started out with a single food truck in Los Angeles, but soon gained celebrity status as one of the country's most famous chefs and the inspiration for the recent movie Chef. Food trucks soon became huge craze in Los Angeles, and Choi has since gone on to open up multiple additional restaurants and even has plans for a fast food chain. His fame and multi-ethnic cuisine gives him large potential if he ever decides to take his business overseas.
The second business to look at is Xiaomi, a Chinese smartphone company that is starting to expand internationally. The smartphone business is a notoriously tough market with dominant competitors such as Apple and Samsung. Xiaomi has gained market share in China and is starting to expand into some neighboring countries. Given the high price of smartphones from Apple and Samsung, there may be room for a lower priced competitor in the global smartphone market.
Do a careful review of the concept of standardization and adaption in Herbig (1998) and Chapter 14.3 of Carpenter and Dunung (2012) and the concepts of multi-domestic, global, and transnational strategies in Chapter 10.3 of Carpenter and Dunung (2012). Then do some research on Roy Choi and Xiaomi in the Trident library or other sources. Here are some articles to get you started:
Walker, T. (2013, Dec 14). Keep on trucking. The Independent [Proquest]
Frausto, M. (2014, Sep 10). Choi's eyes bigger than his stomach? Orange County Register [Proquest]
Larson, C. (2014, Dec). Xiaomi's resolution: Double its smartphone sales volume in 2014. Business Week [Proquest and Businessweek.com]
Mozur, P. (2013, Oct 08). How upstart Xiaomi rattled China's smartphone race. Wall Street Journal [Proquest]
Once you have finished your research, write a four to five page paper answering the following questions:
- What kind of strategy would you recommend if Roy Choi decided to expand his food truck or restaurant business internationally? Would you recommend product standardization or localization? Which overall strategy would you recommend - transnational, multi-domestic, or global? Explain your reasoning and apply the concepts from Carpenter and Dunung (2012) and Herbig (1998).
- What kind of strategy would you recommend for Xiaomi's international expansion? Would you recommend product standardization or localization? Which overall strategy would you recommend - transnational, multi-domestic, or global? Explain your reasoning and apply the concepts from Carpenter and Dunung (2012) and Herbig (1998).
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