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Control• Where are decisions made?• How can the company
optimize globally?• How should country units
report to headquarters?1
DEFINITION
Is the planning, implementation, evaluation, and correction of performance to ensure that
organizational objectives are achived
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FACTORS MAKE CONTROL MORE DIFFICULT INTERNATIONALLY THAN IT IS DOMESTICALLY:
Distance Diversity Uncontrollable
s Degree of
certainty
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DistanceIt takes more time and expense to
communicate.
The geographic distance (especially when operations span multiple time zones) and
cultural disparity separating countries the time, expense, and possibility of error in
cross-national communications.
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DiversityCountry differences make it hard to compare
operations
When go internationally MNE need to adjust their operations (market size, nature of product, labor cost, currency & types of
competition) to unique situations encountered in each country in which it
operates. Differentiate operations among countries,
make the task of evaluating performance or setting standards to correct or improve business functions extremely complicated.
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Uncontrollables
There are more outside stockholders and governmental dictates.
Performance evaluation is less use in maintaining control unless to take
corrective action. Effective corrective action may be minimal because foreign
operation must contend with outside stockholder, whose objectives may differ
from the parent company, and with government regulations over which the company has no short-term influence.
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Degree of UncertaintyThere often are rapid changes in the
environment and data problems
Control implies setting goals and developing plans to meet organization’s goal; Economic and industry data are much less complete and accurate for some countries than for
others, political also subject to rapid change. All these situations impede planning, especially for long term planning, and reduce the certainty of results from
implementation.
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CONTROL PROCESS1. Planning2. Organizational Structure3. Location of Decision
Making4. Control Mechanism5. Special Situations
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Planning
The process of setting goals, developing strategies and outlining tasks and schedules to accomplish the goals
The essence of planning is company must adapt its unique resources and objectives to different and changing international competitive situations.
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Organizational Structure• Defines how individuals and
organizational units are grouped to carry out company activities
• Consists of formal structure and lines of communications
• Types of organizational structure:-- International Division- Functional Division- Product Division- Geographic (area) division- Matrix
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International Division
• Grouping international activities into their own decision
• Allows their own personnel to handle task such as export documentation, forex transaction & relation with foreign governments
• Depend on the domestic divisions for product to sell, personnel, technology & other resources
• Best suited for multidomestic strategies
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International Division
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Functional Division
Use among companies with narrow product lines
It ideal when product & production methods are basically undifferentiated among countries
To ensure the effectiveness of division specialization
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Functional Division
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Product Division• Use among international companies
with diverse products• Both foreign & domestic operations
report to the same head
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• Use companies with large foreign operations that are not dominated by a single country or area
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Geographical (area) Division
Product Division
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Geographical (area) Division
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Matrix• Use to integrate or separate foreign
operations• Subsidiary reports to more than one
group• Each group shares responsibility
over foreign operations, the groups will become more interdependent, exchange information, and ultimately take strategic global perspectives as they seek to exchange resources with each other.
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Location of Decision Making• Companies must determine where
decisions will be made even though organizational structure outlines who reports to whom within the MNE.
• The choice of decision location should be based on:-1. balancing pressures for global integration vs pressures
for local responsiveness,2. balancing the capabilities of headquarters vs subsidiary personnel, and3. balancing the expediency vs the quality of decisions.
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• Corporate culture – The common values shared by employees in a corporation
• Reports – reports must be timely in order to allow companies to respond to their information
• Management vs subsidiary performance – companies should evaluate managers on things they can control. Subsidiaries should be evaluated separately from their managers so that managers are not penalized for conditions or occurrences outside their control.
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Cost and accounting comparability – different cost structures among subsidiaries may prevent a meaningful comparison of their operating results.
Evaluate measurement systems – companies must evaluate results in relation to budgets (to evaluate performance look at the budget agreed upon by HQ and subsidiary managers, so company can differentiate between subsidiary’s worth and its management’s performance).
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Control Mechanism cont..
Planning information acquisitions – management should reevaluate information needs periodically to keep costs down and should ensure that information is being used. Information include subsidiary cash balances and needs, analyses of local political and economic conditions, feedback from parent to local subsidiaries such as R&D findings, lateral info between related subsidiaries and information for external reporting needs. 23
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Control in Special Situation
Shared Ownership (such as Wholly Owned / Joint venture)
Sharing ownership limits the flexibility of corporate decision making.
AcquisitionCriteria in evaluating performance may be
different from that of the acquired company’s accustomed performance criteria.
When to centralize certain decision-making procedure or to change operating method may results distrust, apprehension, and resistance to change.
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