Global Business Today 7th Edition by Charles Hill

Exercise 6

Use the globalEDGE Resource Desk (http://globalEDGE.msu.edu/resourcedesk/) to complete the following exercises:
The top management of your company, a manufacturer and marketer of laptop computers, has decided to pursue international expansion opportunities in Eastern Europe. To achieve economies of scale, management is aiming toward a strategy of minimum local adaptation. Focusing on an eastern European country of your choice, and using the "Countries" section of globalEDGE (select Countries at the main menu), prepare an executive summary that features those aspects of the product where standardization will simply not work and adaptation to local conditions will be essential.