ASSIGNMENT

Based on lecture 1 and the slides for Toyota Download slides for Toyota, answer the following questions:

1. Do you consider Toyota as an international business? Based on which IB features?
2. Which region has most of Toyota’s plants? Why? Provide some data to back up your response.
3. Based on the data provided, what seems odd when it comes to Toyota’s distributors? What do distributors do? Are distributors a stakeholder of Toyota?
4. Where does Toyota do most of its R&D? Why? Is decentralized R&D a strategy? Explain in a few sentences
5. What are the pros and cons of decentralizing R&D?
6. What was Toyota’s 2019 R&D expenses in US dollars?
7. Based on USD-Yen historical exchange rate data, https://www.macrotrends.net/2550/dollar-yen-exchange-rate-historical-charts R&D intensity match some of its rivals? What types of businesses appear to have high R&D intensity and what does it imply?
8. For Toyota, identify some of the home and host countries.
9. What kind of services Toyota might require for its global operations? What locational advantage might Singapore have for Toyota?
10. What kind of services Toyota might require for its global operations? What locational advantage might Singapore have for Toyota?