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Country Analysis Framework

Country Analysis Framework. Mode of Analysis. View country as a unit much like a firm with goals, comparative advantages and measurable outcomes. More complicated as the goals are less obvious, constituencies more varied, and decision making less clear.

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Country Analysis Framework

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  1. Country Analysis Framework

  2. Mode of Analysis • View country as a unit much like a firm with goals, comparative advantages and measurable outcomes. • More complicated as the goals are less obvious, constituencies more varied, and decision making less clear. • Examine past & present and project into the future. • Must choose time frame of analysis to guide focus.

  3. Three Parts Context Strategy Performance

  4. Context • Background & Resources • Players of the Game • Firms: Corporate Sector • Government Actors • Non-state Actors • Rules of the Game • Formal Rules  • Informal Rules • International Dimension

  5. Background and Resources • Resources • Natural • Labor • Capital • Infrastructure • Technology • Strategy • Vision • Goals • Policies • Context • Rules of the • Game • Players • Background • History • Culture • Demographics • Geography Austen, J.E., 1990, Managing in Development Economies

  6. The game • Players of the Game • Government Actors • Political Leaders • Government Departments • Firms: Corporate Sector • Non-state Actors

  7. Rules of the Game • Formal • Constitution, • Type of Legal system • Property Rights Link

  8. Rules of the Game • Informal • Unwritten practices • Business/work culture Link 2011 Investment Climate Statement - Japan · A highly insular and consensual business culture that is resistant to hostile mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and prefers to do business, especially M&A transactions, with familiar corporate partners;

  9. Strategy Vision - Overall view of society Ideology Orientation Goals Policies

  10. Performance • Economic: GDP, Employment, Inflation • Social: Income Distribution, Health, Education • Political: Stability, Freedom • International: Balance of Payments

  11. Synthesis • Construct a story that uses the different elements to describe the situation faced by the country.

  12. No perfect system for describing a country’s situation. This system offers a straight-forward, easily comparable framework.   Country-level approach may also be questioned. Any country has many individual actors which will each have their own objectives, strategies and performance measures. 

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