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

Global Market Entry Strategies: Licensing, Investment, and Strategic Alliances. Chapter 9 Global Marketing. What is the Right Market Entry Strategy?. It depends on: Vision Attitude toward risk How much investment capital is available How much control is desired. Market Entry Strategies.

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

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

  2. What is the Right Market Entry Strategy? • It depends on: • Vision • Attitude toward risk • How much investment capital is available • How much control is desired Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  3. Market Entry Strategies Licensing Investment Strategic Alliances Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  4. Licensing • A contractual agreement whereby one company (the licensor) makes an asset available to another company (the licensee) in exchange for royalties, license fees, or some other form of compensation • Patent • Trade secret • Brand name • Product formulations Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  5. Advantages of Licensing • Provides additional profitability with little initial investment • Provides method of circumventing tariffs, quotas, and other export barriers • Attractive ROI • Low costs to implement Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  6. Disadvantages of Licensing • Limited participation • Returns may be lost • Lack of control • Licensee may become competitor • Licensee may exploit company resources Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  7. 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 • 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 Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  8. Investment • Partial or full ownership of operations outside of home country • Foreign Direct Investment • Forms • Joint ventures • Minority or majority equity stakes • Outright acquisition Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  9. Joint Ventures • Entry strategy for a single target country in which the partners share ownership of a newly-created business entity Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  10. Advantages Allows for sharing of risk (both financial and political) Provides opportunity to learn new environment 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 Joint Ventures Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  11. Ownership or Equity Stake • Start-up of new operations • Greenfield operations or • Greenfield investment • Merger with an existing enterprise • Acquisition of an existing enterprise Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  12. Advantages of Ownership • Access to markets • Avoidance of tariffs or quota barriers • Technology experience transfers • Access to new manufacturing techniques Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  13. Global Strategic Partnerships • Possible terms: • Collaborative agreements • Strategic alliances • Strategic international alliances • Global strategic partnerships Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  14. Characteristics of Strategic Alliances • 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 Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  15. Disadvantages of GSPs • Must share control over assigned tasks • Risk of strengthening a competitor • Conflict between participants Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  16. Advantages of GSPs • Enables firms to share high costs for a project • Accommodates a lack of skills, resources within a company by forming an alliance with company with those resources • Provides access to national and regional markets • Provides learning opportunities Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  17. Attributes of Global 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 Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  18. Success Factors for GSPs Mission Strategy Governance Culture Organization Management Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  19. Principles to Follow • While partners in some areas, partners are still competitors in other areas • Harmony is not the most important measure of success • Everyone must understand where cooperation ends and competitive compromise begins • Learning from each other is critically important Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  20. Figure 9-2: Evolution and Interaction of Entry Strategies Scale Operational Scope Less Complex More complex X Export-based Affiliate-based Network-based X X X X X Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  21. International Cooperative Strategies • Japan • Korea • United States Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  22. Cooperative Strategies in Japan: Keiretsu • Interbusiness 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 nonfinancial suppliers • Keiretsu executives can legally sit on each other’s boards, share information, and coordinate prices Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  23. Cooperative Strategies in Korea: Chaebol • Composed of dozens of companies, centered around a bank or holding company, and dominated by a founding family • Samsung • LG • Hyundai • Daewoo Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  24. Cooperative Strategies in US:Digital Keiretsu • Alliances between companies in several industries that are undergoing transformation and convergence • Computers • Communications • Consumer electronics • Entertainment Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  25. Relationship Enterprise • Next stage of evolution of the strategic alliance • Super-alliance • Virtual corporation Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

  26. Table 9-9: Market Expansion Strategies MARKET Concentration Diversification COU N T R Y 2. Country Focus Concentration Diversification 1. Narrow Focus 3. Country Diversification 4 . Global Diversification Keegan and Green, Chapter 9

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