TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Business: A changing world (4/e): Chapter 3 - O.C. Ferrell, Geoffrey Hirt

Chapter 3: Business in a borderless world. Learning objectives of this chapter include: Explore some of the factors within the international trade environment that influence business; investigate some of the economic, legal-political, social, cultural, and technological barriers to international business; specify some of the agreements, alliances, and organizations that may encourage trade across international boundaries; summarize the different levels of organizational involvement in international trade. | Chapter Three Business in a Borderless World International Business The buying, selling, and trading of goods and services across national boundaries. FAST FACT: McDonald’s serves 45 million customers a day at 29,000 restaurants in 120 countries. Absolute Advantage Absolute advantage exists when a country is the only source of an item, the only producer of an item, or the most efficient producer of an item. Example: DeBeers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. (virtually controls the world’s diamond trade). Comparative Advantage Comparative advantage occurs when a country specializes in products that it can supply more efficiently or at a lower cost than it can produce other items. Example: . agricultural commodities, such as corn and wheat. Importing & Exporting Selling to foreign markets Buying from foreign markets The U. S. Trade Deficit 1978-2008 (projected) Source: Exports and Imports of Goods and Services, 1978-2008, from .

• Quản trị kinh doanh
• Changing world
• Organizing business
• Operations management
• Economic systems
• International business
• Comparative advantage
• Systems Analysis
• Design in a Changing World
• Information systems
• Systems development
• Systems design
• Types of information systems
• lasting happiness
• How to be Happy
• Changing the World
• happier life
• art of living
• a good life
• philosophy of life
• the art of making people
• Systems development life cycle
• Traditional approach
• Object oriented approach
• Project management
• Management skills
• Information system projects
• Project planning of SDLC
• Analysis phase of SDLC
• Investigating system requirements
• System requirements
• Logical mode
• Modeling systems requirements
• Information system models
• System requirements
• Requirements model
• Object Oriented Views
• IE approaches
• Evaluating alternatives
• Prioritize systems requirements
• Genaral alternatives
• Review recommendation
• Moving to design
• Analysis objectives
• design Objectives
• The traditional approach to design
• Structured model
• Model development process
• Structured design models
• Designing databases
• OO data models
• Database management system
• Relational databases
• Designing the user interface
• System interfaces
• OO approach
• User interfaces
• Program development
• Framework development
• Source Code Control
• Software testing
• Nature of business
• Study business
• Business ethics
• Social responsibility
• Managing information technology
• Management information systems
• The articles of incorporation
• Options for organizing business
• Small business
• Small business ownership
• Organizational objectives
• The nature of management
• Functional departmentalization
• Formal communication
• Transformation process
• Motivating the workforce
• Motivation process
• Managing human resources
• Job analysis