Q1 Do ownership restrictions such as localpartner requiremen

Q1: Do ownership restrictions, such as local-partner requirements, always ensure that MNCs will contribute more to the local economy than they would otherwise? Argue why or why not.

Q2: What are the different methods a company can use to obtain and/or develop political risk assessment information? What do you think are the strengths and weaknesses of each?

Solution

Segmenting is an essential process of each and every company who deals in global goods. Segmentation provide a better distribution of the products according to the market place which is beneficial for the company to maintain an efficient way of selling the goods. Most of the Global distributors of the cosmetic goods segment their market according to the need of the people as well as their paying capacities.
This segmentation quickly increases the overall efficiency as well as productivity of the organisation by maintaining and knowing about the specific segment which is specified to some market provides an extensive support to the overall sales system of the company. This segmentation helps company to determine overall paying capacity as well as the type of product being used by the specific Nation.
For an example segmenting India as a market for cosmetics those cannot include any kind of non vegetarian or any other material because it is considered as an ethical to buy the product containing non-vegetarian materials in India. Hence we can say that segmentation of the market directly increases the overall efficiency productivity of the organisation.

Definitely the buying process of deodorants can be very similar from country to country but in some countries some specified contents inside the deodorants are checked before people actually buy them. As alcohol is prohibited in Islam, most of the Muslim countries does not have a very large sale of alcohol based deodorants. In these countries people usually by deodorants by looking for the content inside the deodorant. Unlike a country like United States of America has no issues of alcohol in deodorant and for such any other content and people buy them normally.
Delivery man can also be segmented according to the market. In some places bikes are more efficient than the vans to deliver the products. Vehicle selection changes from place to place and totally depends on the geography as well as needs of the specified Orders and weight or the size.
These payments can be totally managed through the system of The United States of America government. This provides extensive transparency as well as tracking of the source and the definition of the funds.