Reflection and Integration

Assignment 8.3: Reflection and Integration

This final assignment is an opportunity for you to look at your learning process in this course and to integrate it with your professional context.

Procedure

Read the article “ Midsize Companies Going Global – But not too Global.” [Jones e-global library^®: ProQuest]
Answer the following questions in the course Forum (please make the first submission by Wednesday):
1. How are you responding differently to the article, compared to how you might have thought about it at the beginning of this course?
2. What new insights are you taking with you from the experience of the course project?
3. Which knowledge or skills from this module are you most likely to apply in your work?
4. What impact might the “emerging themes” (see Theme 3) have on you professionally?

Answer preview

Q2a. How are you responding differently to the article compared to how you might have thought about it?

From my point of view, midsize companies going global but not too global would have an implication that companies are investing in going into markets that have not yet developed. This is not the case that is discussed in the article. In the real sense going global for the midsize companies means that they just want to increase their market share by investing in the growth initiatives. I would have thought that the main intention for companies going global is to enable them to cut down the costs in order to be in a position to embrace the measures for downtown of the companies. The article emphasizes that going global means that the companies want to tap the opportunities that come with the established markets rather than to start from scratch in markets that are not yet developed (Platt, 2010)……………………..

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