Walmart’s possible entry via investment in Turkey-What are your investment recommendations? How should a firm do business in the country? What are the near future performance prospects?
Assignment Question
Walmart’s possible entry via investment in Turkey
This project is not designed to be a term paper in which the views of others are simply summarized. You are the analyst, and it is your job to integrate relevant information and form your own opinions and views. This project will require you to analyze data. In order to provide a comprehensive analysis of the business environment in the target country, each report must address the business opportunities and challenges presented by each of the contextual dimensions listed below. The analysis should cover the last five years or as constrained by information limitations. The primary focus should be on more recent events (Present to 2 years). Introduction: In this section, give a brief descriiption of the client firm, its industrial base and the general background information of the target foreign country (i.e., location, size, population, resources etc.). This section should include a brief timeline of the main historical events in the foreign country. It should also include basic economic and financial market issues such as monetary policy, exchange rates, sovereign debt or defaults, major imports and exports or other important market backgrounds. Economic analysis of the country’s attractiveness for FDI: In this section, assess the country’s recent economic conditions related to GDP, inflation, interest rates, currency value, personal income, and employment. Suggest how these economic factors may attract or deter foreign investment. Analyze the infrastructure of the country with regard to the availability of transportation, communication, and utilities. Examine the ease of starting a business, registering property, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, and paying taxes in the target country. These factors interact with the time and cost to start and run a business and help to shape the local business environment. Currency policy analysis of the country’s attractiveness for FDI: In this section, analyze the present and historical performance of your country’s financial markets including both equity and debt markets and the foreign exchange market. In this section, you should analyze the financial risk profile of the country.
Recommendations: In the final section, you should integrate your analysis of the country-level factors and industry-level factors related to the business environment and provide recommendations to your client. This section should provide a clear picture of the future outlook, investment opportunities, and how a US firm should approach, enter and operate in the market. Since this is your report’s most important section, it should be at least two pages long. The type of questions that should be considered include the following: What are your investment recommendations? How should a firm do business in the country? What are the near future performance prospects? In answering these questions, examine the business climate, political, economic, socio-cultural, financial, innovation and competitiveness conditions of the country under study. Provide a list of complete sources of information used during your research at the end of the report. In addition, make sure to cite the information sources at relevant places in the report. The report will be evaluated based on the following criteria: The analysis is logical and well-argued. The analysis incorporates original research findings. The analysis incorporates relevant concepts/frameworks/research findings from course materials. The report is well-organized, written, and professionally prepared.
