Where to find information for the process of internationalization E-Book

Stephan Sitzler

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, University of Applied Sciences Worms, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction The internationalization of business units, paraphrase to operate on foreign markets, is an economical task, companies are confronted with and which gets more and more important, thus necessary in times of changes in global politics. The step of going international is accompanied with a lot of opportunities but also risks for the companies. Therefore it’s essential for the enterprises to do research and get the maximum of information before or during international business. 1.1 Pertinence, aspiration and structure of the research paper The present paper deals with the possibilities of getting information about the process of internationalization. The goal of this work is initially to give ist reader an understanding of the term „internationalization“, furthermore this paper is going to give an overview of groups and organisations which offer information for the process of doing business abroad. For this purpose Chapter 2 presents the basically definition of the concept of “internationalization”. It also demonstrates the importance of internationalization to companies. Chapter 3 gives a summary of where to get information for the process of internationalization. Finally Chapter 4 displays the results of this paperwork, presents a critically evaluation and gives a final summary of this research paper. 1.2 Delimitation of the research paper This paper refers just on secondary information sources about the process of internationalization of German companies, mainly SMUs. Definitions and effectuations are for the sake of brevity not to exceed the given range of this paper.