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Lesson 9 Global Market Entry Strategies: Licensing, Investment, and Strategic Alliances

Lesson 9 Global Market Entry Strategies: Licensing, Investment, and Strategic Alliances. Introduction. How do you organize yourself to enter other markets? Various traditional options available. Introduction. Which strategy should be used?. It depends on:

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Lesson 9 Global Market Entry Strategies: Licensing, Investment, and Strategic Alliances

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  1. Lesson 9 Global Market Entry Strategies: Licensing, Investment, and Strategic Alliances

  2. Introduction • How do you organize yourself to enter other markets? • Various traditional options available

  3. Introduction

  4. Which strategy should be used? • It depends on: • Vision (short-term vs. long term thinking) • Attitude toward risk (risk-takers vs. risk-averse) • How much investment capital is available • How much control is desired

  5. Licensing • A contract through which one company (the licensor) makes an asset available to another company (the licensee) for compensation e.g. fashion labels, etc. • Royalties, license fees (technology transfer fees) • Patent, trade mark, brand name, product formulation, etc. • One time technology transfer • A.K.A. technical collaborations

  6. Licensing Contracts • Specify the technology to be transferred • Contract period • Jurisdiction • Royalties, lump-sum fees and payment schedule • LOI / MOU and Contract

  7. Advantages to Licensing • Provides additional profitability with little initial investment • Provides method of circumventing tariffs, quotas, and other export barriers • Attractive ROI • Low costs to implement

  8. Disadvantages to Licensing • Limited participation and control leading to misuse / unproductive marketing efforts • Licensee may become competitor • How will you minimize this possibility (cross-licensing; forced obsolescence)

  9. Special Licensing Arrangements • Contract manufacturing • Company provides technical specifications to a subcontractor or local manufacturer • Allows company to specialize in product design while contractors accept responsibility for manufacturing facilities e.g. Nike, Apple • Franchising • Contract between a parent company-franchisor and a franchisee that allows the franchisee to operate a business developed by the franchisor in return for a fee and adherence to franchise-wide policies e.g. McDonalds.

  10. Investment • Partial or full ownership of operations outside of home country • Foreign Direct Investment • Forms • Joint ventures • Minority or majority equity stakes • Outright acquisition

  11. Joint Ventures • Entry strategy for a single target country in which the partners share ownership of a newly-created business entity incorporated in the target country • Both partners contribute to the equity of the venture

  12. Joint Ventures • Advantages • Allows for sharing of risk (both financial and political) • Greater rewards than licensing • Provides opportunity to achieve synergy by combining strengths of partners • May be the only way to enter market given barriers to entry • Disadvantages • Requires more investment than a licensing agreement • Must share rewards as well as risks • Requires strong coordination • Potential for conflict among partners • Partner may become a competitor

  13. Investment via Ownership or Equity Stake • Start-up of new operations • Greenfield operations or • Greenfield investment • Merger with an existing enterprise • Acquisition of an existing enterprise

  14. Global Strategic Partnerships • New forms of cooperation: • Collaborative agreements • Strategic alliances • Strategic international alliances • Global strategic partnerships • Convergence of markets, technology, media. • Rapid obsolescence and unpredictability

  15. The Nature of Global Strategic Partnerships • Participants remain independent following formation of the alliance • Participants share benefits of alliance as well as control over performance of assigned tasks • Participants make ongoing contributions in technology, products, and other key strategic areas • Two or more competitors may form a GSP

  16. Why GSPs? • The quickest and cheapest way to develop a global strategy • Very high product development costs • Convergence of technologies – one company may not have the command over the complete technology package • Easier access to other country markets • Accelerated learning

  17. Examples of GSPs • Airbus Industrie – British, French, Spanish and German governments • GE and Snecma – aircraft engines for Airbus • Boeing, Fuji, Mitsubishi and Kawasaki – the 777

  18. 5 Attributes of True Global Strategic Partnerships • Two or more companies develop a joint long-term strategy • Relationship is reciprocal • Partners’ vision and efforts are global • Relationship is organized along horizontal lines (not vertical) • When competing in markets not covered by alliance, participants retain national and ideological identities

  19. Success Factors • Mission. Successful GSPs create win-win situations, where participants pursue objectives on the basis of mutual need or advantage. • Strategy. A company may establish separate GSPs with different partners; strategy must be thought out up front to avoid conflicts. • Governance. Discussion and consensus must be the norms. Partners must be viewed as equals.

  20. Success Factors • Culture. Personal chemistry is important, as is the successful development of a shared set of values. • Organization. Innovative structures and designs may be needed to offset the complexity of multi-country management. • Management. Potentially divisive issues must be identified in advance and clear, unitary lines of authority established that will result in commitment by all partners.

  21. Alliances with Asian Competitors • Four common problem areas • Each partner had a different dream • Each must contribute to the alliance and each must depend on the other to a degree that justifies the alliance • Differences in management philosophy, expectations and approaches • No corporate memory due to short managerial assignments to the GSP

  22. Cooperative Strategies in Japan: Keiretsu • Inter-business alliance or enterprise groups in which business families join together to fight for market share • Often cemented by bank ownership of large blocks of stock and by cross-ownership of stock between a company and its buyers and non-financial suppliers • Keiretsu executives can legally sit on each other’s boards, share information, and coordinate prices

  23. Big Six keiretsu • Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumimoto, Fuyo, Sanwa, DKB – horizontal keiretsu • Other keiretsu – Matsushita, Hitachi, Toyota, etc. – vertical kieretsu • Do they violate anti-trust laws? • Effectively control the country’s economy and can block market access

  24. Cooperative Strategies in South Korea: Chaebol • Composed of dozens of companies, centered around a bank or holding company, and dominated by a founding family • Samsung • LG • Hyundai • Daewoo

  25. Beyond Strategic Alliances • Next stage of evolution of the strategic alliance • Super-alliance • Virtual corporation • Building 10 world class airports in China – BA, TNT, Snecma, Siemens, Boeing

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