Multinational Business Strategies and Globalization’s Impact

Multinational Business Strategies

In a multi-branch strategy, each country’s operations are completely autonomous, and differences between them are remarkable because they have little interaction. Usually, there is a mechanism to coordinate with each other, but typically only financial strategies and advertising are aligned. Products are totally different. The subsidiaries are separate.

Overall Strategy

Multinationals that use this strategy behave as a single unit, avoiding duplication of functions

Read More

Business Structures: Types and Legal Forms in Spain

Types of Companies

Property of Production or Capital Resources

  • Private: Capital belongs to private individuals or legal entities.
  • Public: Capital is wholly or partially owned by the State, Autonomous Communities, or municipalities.

Size

  • Small: Fewer than 50 employees.
  • Medium: Fewer than 250 employees.
  • Large: 250 or more employees.

Fields of Activity

  • Primary Sector: Use of natural resources (agriculture, livestock, and fisheries).
  • Secondary Sector: Industrial enterprises.
  • Tertiary Sector: Service companies
Read More

Key Roles in Construction: Promoters, Designers, and Builders

**Item 2. Key Actors and Agents in the Building Process**

The Promoter

1. Any natural person or legal entity, public or private, which individually or collectively decides, drives, programs, and funds, with their own resources or outside resources, the building work for themselves or for their subsequent disposal, supply, or transfer to third parties under any title.

  • a) Promote ownership over the site of a law authorizing them to build on it.
  • b) Facilitate the necessary documentation and information
Read More

Internal Control and Risk Management in Auditing

Internal control is a process, effected by an entity’s personnel, designed to achieve specific objectives. It consists of five interrelated components that help a company direct its objectives and integrate all staff into the process. Although these components are applicable to all companies, small and medium-sized businesses may implement them differently than large ones. Their implementation may be less formal and structured, but it can still be effective.

Audit Risk

Audit risk is the possibility

Read More

Effective Decision-Making: Strategies and Techniques

Decision-making is the selection of a course of action among alternatives. The process leading to decision-making can be viewed as:

  1. Establishment of premises
  2. Identification of alternatives
  3. Evaluation of alternatives in terms of the proposed goal
  4. Choice of an alternative, i.e., making a decision

Limited or Bounded Rationality

Limited information, time, and certainty restrict rationality. Satisficing is the process of selecting a course of action that is satisfactory or acceptable under certain circumstances.

Read More