Hey, can anyone help me with this question? Wall Street Journal 3. Read a curren
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Hey, can anyone help me with this question? Wall Street Journal 3. Read a current article in Wall Street Journal on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, licensing or global franchising or exporting. The article should be within the last two week, and should include the article title, article link, an overview, key points, recommendations, global competitiveness index, economic freedom, ranking, why it would be good or not Good to invest in Turkey. Hey, can anyone help me with this question? Wall Street Journal 3. Read a current article in Wall Street Journal on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, licensing or global franchising or exporting. The article should be within the last two week, and should include the article title, article link, an overview, key points, recommendations, global competitiveness index, economic freedom, ranking, why it would be good or not Good to invest in Turkey. Hey, can anyone help me with this question? Wall Street Journal 3. Read a current article in Wall Street Journal on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, licensing or global franchising or exporting. The article should be within the last two week, and should include the article title, article link, an overview, key points, recommendations, global competitiveness index, economic freedom, ranking, why it would be good or not Good to invest in Turkey.Explanation / Answer
Mergers and acquisitions represent changes in ownership of a business. A merger is when two businesses or firms join hands (or merge) to form a single business entity. An acquisition, on the other hand is when a company takes over another company entirely and the latter becomes part of the former. Acquisitions can either be friendly or hostile. One of the biggest news in terms of acquisition that was announced last year was Microsoft's purchase of the social netwroking site LinkedIn. This was a friendly acquisition with all the operations of LinkedIn completely integrated with Microsoft.
Joint Venture is business move to combine two or more business entities. In this case, the ownership of the new entity is shared and its opertaions are divided. The risk and risk are also shared among the companies part of a joint venture. One of the biggest news regarding joint venture has been between Ford and the Sollers JSC. Both car makers have joined hands to create a van and sport utility factory. This news was recently covered in many articles as ford hired a number of new workers fro this car manufacturing facility. This is mainly dur to the increase in demand for cars and trucks in Sollers JSC's home country. In fact, Sollers JSC is a part of partnerships with many automobile manufacturing firms.
This increase in demand for trucks and cars, and Ford's stake in Sollers is mainly to increase the operations of Sollers and to give their profits a boost. Ford has been manufacturing new models that fit with the harsh weather conditions in Russia and has improved car sales in the country considerably in the last few years.
Global Competitive index is an index developed to measure how competitive a country is in the world market. Several macroeconomic and microeconomic conditions are taken into consideration while creating this index. This index measures how efficiently a nation can use its natural resources and how well off its citizens are. In 2017, the top ranked country as per this index was Switzerland followed by United States and Singapore.
Economic Freedom is an measure of how free a nation is in terms of freedom to the individuals to better temselves in the society which can then result in a larger social benefit. This measure was developed by the Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation. As per the latest report in 2016, the top ranked nation in this index is Hong Kong followed by Singapore and New Zealand United States ranks 11 in this list.
Investment scenario in Turkey had been on the rise since 2007. This has been mainly because of economic reforms in the nation, especially banking reforms. This safe banking system had led to a fairly stable market and had encouraged a lot of worldwide investment. However, in the last few years this has slowed down considerably due to changes in economic and political environment.
Generally, US investment in Turkey has been relaively weak due the above mentioned reasons. However, investment in Turkey carries both pros and cons. The main pros of the nation is that the workforce is fairly educated and infrastructure is the nation is investment friendly. Also, the consumption of finished goods in Turkey is high which makes it a favorable market. Also, it has a relatively liberal legal policies which may attract foreign direct investment. On the other hand, its unstable political environment is not very investment friendly.
So, if there are some economic and political reforms that lead to liberalization of the economy in addition to improving the skills of the workforce further in Turkey then it is likely to improve investment in the nation.