International Business Management. Business & Marketing Case Study

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Executive Summary
The document is a report of the concerns that the regional director of Danlaw identified in the operations of EB Electronics. The report is written for the international director, who will help the business develop a strategy to address the issues. The document also contains proposition on how the concerns can be addressed. The report is divided into three parts. The first part is the introduction, which gives a brief explanation of the case and identifies some of the critical issues. It also gives a brief analysis of international business as a concept and various factors that influence it. The other part is the main report, which describes the concerns raised on the matter of EB across different factors, which include supply chain, ethical issues, and business values. The document effectively gives an analysis of the problems that arise from the practices of EB.
Introduction
International business involves the trading of goods of services outside the borders of the nation. It’s a business that is built on the concepts of exporting and importing. Exporting on the basis of selling outside the country and importing on the basis of buying outside the country. International business is governed by many factors which include trading blocs, foreign policies, custom duties among others. In international business it is vital that a company upholds ethical conduct in the nature of their dealing so as to do clean business and also ensure that its practices are beneficial to the populations in the countries they dealing in. In this case, I used a case of Danlaw Manufacturers and EB Electronics.
The regional director of Danlaw Manufacturing has some concerns with the company’s leading supplier EB Electronics. Danlaw, a company that produces high-end electronics through advanced technology gets its raw materials from EB Electronics. EB imports all of its raw materials from Japan. The director’s concerns include mineral conflicts, child labor in the country of import and human slavery. She also has concerns about the issues that may arise for overreliance on goods from one country. She also raises concerns about ethical issues that may arise from the supply chain. She wants to file a report on the problems of concern to the international director so that the company can seek solutions to address these issues that have arisen from their primary supply. The address is essential especially the BREXIT. Below are the concerns that the company face for their supplier relying on only one country as a source of their raw materials.
Report
Danlaw is a company that significantly observes ethical issues in its way of operations. As a company that seeks not only to do business for profits but also to leave a positive impact on all the people it relates to, the company’s attention has been drawn to the ways of operation to our major supplier EB Electronics. It is due to these concerns that this report has been prepared with the goal of seeking ways to address the concerns. EB Electronics imports all its products from Japan, which has triggered the concerns. There have also been cr...