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This week students will review and revise their Week 3 Research Analysis for Business Signature Assignment based on economic analysis and the feedback provided by their facilitator. Students will also expand their Week 3 analyses to evaluate the challenges of expanding their chosen company's production to a foreign market.
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Revise your Week 3 assignment, Research Analysis for Business, using the feedback provided by your facilitator. This Week 6 report should only include one conclusion, so you will need to rewrite the conclusion you included in your Week 3 assignment, Research Analysis for Business.
Select a foreign market in which to expand your chosen product. If you wish, you may use one of the countries your team analyzed in their Week 5 Comparative and Absolute Advantage Assignment.
Prepare a minimum1,750-word report addressing the points listed below. The use of tables and/or charts to display economic data over the time period discussed is highly encouraged, you may submit any economic data in Microsoft® Excel® format in a separate file. You may use the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), U.S. Dept. of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the Federal Reserve of St. Louis's FRED data, the CIA World Fact Book, World Bank data, and World Trade Organization, or other appropriate sources you might find on the Internet or in the University Library. The new sections of your report should:
- Evaluate current global economic conditions and their effects on macroeconomic indicators in your selected country. Provide forecasts for population growth, gross domestic product (GDP) growth, GDP per capita growth, export growth, and sales growth.
- Evaluate any competitors' existing production in the chosen country.
- Assess sales forecasts in the selected country by using the Federal Reserve of St. Louis's FRED data, the CIA World Fact Book, World Bank data, World Trade Organization, or other appropriate sources you might find on the Internet or in the University Library.
- Categorize the type of economy that exists in your selected country as closed, mixed, or market. What is the difference between these types of economies and how might this affect your expansion?
- Assess how your chosen country's current credit market conditions, especially interest rates and the availability of financing, affect demand for your product or service and your planning or operating decision for your production in that country.
- Analyze the role of the selected country's central bank on that country's economy.
- Compare the availability, education, and job skills of the work force in the selected country. Discuss any additional challenges of international production, such as political stability, availability of government financing or other incentives, threat of capital controls, and exchange rate risks.
- Explain any additional supply chain challenges you anticipate if attempting to make your product in your chosen country and selling the product in other countries.
- Based on the data gathered and analysis performed for this report write a conclusion in which you:
- Create business strategies, including price and non-price strategies, based on your market structure to ensure the market share and potential market expansions and explore global opportunities for your business in a dynamic business environment and provide recommendations.
- Develop a recommendation for how the firm can manage its future production by synthesizing the macroeconomic and microeconomic data presented.
- Propose how the firm's position within the market and among its competitors will allow it to take your recommended action.
- Recommend strategies for the firm to sustain its success going forward by evaluating the findings from demand trends, price elasticity, current stage of the business cycle, and government.
- Recommend any comparative advantages your company will have over competitors currently operating in that country, and defend your position, either for or against, expanding your company's production into your chosen country based on your research.
Integrate with the Week 3 Individual Assignment, and incorporate corrections and suggestions from the instructor's feedback. The final report should be a minimum of 2,800 words.
Cite a minimum of three peer reviewed sources not including the textbook.
Include all peer-reviewed references and government economic data sources/references from Week 3.
Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.
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Running Head: ANALYSIS OF BOEING
Analysis of Boeing
Hadasaw A. Price
University Of Phoenix
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BOEING
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Introduction
Boeing is among the biggest airliner companies in the world with extensive operations
across the United States and in other locations as well. Boeing's dominance in North America is
as a result of the offering quality, and its dedication to research and product development.
Market Structure
Boeing operates in a market with very few and substantial competitors in the American
space and across the world. By comparing the size of the firms involved, Boeing is believed to
be able to in a duopoly with Airbus as the two have the largest market share and influence
globally. Including the other smaller firms like Bombardier, China's COMAC and Irkut
Corporation, the market changes from a duopoly to an oligopoly. The five companies all brought
together constitute the global market for the manufacture of aircraft. The current market share for
Boeing is currently at 43% slightly behind the market leaders Airbus who have a market
leadership of 45% (Al-Najjar et al., 2017). Local competitors for Boeing include Lockheed
Martin in Maryland, Raytheon Corporation in Massachusetts, GE Aviation in Ohio and General
Dynamics in Virginia. Global competitors include the likes of Airbus headquartered in Europe,
Safran which is based in France, Rolls Royce in London, and the Irkut Corporation in Russia and
COMAC in China among other companies (O’Connor, & Fuellhart, 2015).
Entry into the market is challenging not mostly because of government regulations but
because of the initial investment and substantial capital required to start production, conduct
research and comply with all set standards. Setting up the production units, purchase of the
materials, the hiring of professionals and the considerable risks associated with the subsector are
among the significant challenges into the entry of the market (Borenstein, 2017). The huge
BOEING
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barriers set by the industrial needs discourage competitors from getting into the market. The
threat to the survival of Boeing, in this case, is not because of new entrants but because of those
already in the industry, as newcomers have almost zero impact on the future of the company
Macroeconomic Indicators
The economy of the United States is currently in its expansionary phase with inflation
and unemployment rates going up. The real gross domestic product as of October 2018 is $20.66
trillion, while the inflation is at 2.5% as by the end of October 2018. The unemployment rate for
the year ending October 2018, is at 3.7% (Blinder & Watson,2016). The federal funds rate is
currently at 2.25%, with the current rates for borrowing funds being at 5.25% an increase from
last year's 4.25%. In 2016, the gross domestic product was at $18,624 trillion and the inflation
rate at 1.3%, while the unemployment rate for the same year was at 4.9%. In 2017, the gross
domestic product was at $19,390 trillion and the unemployment and inflation rates at 4.4% and
2.1% (Blinder & Watson, 2016).
Trends in Demand
The demand for airplanes, other parts, and services associated has been on the rise in the
past New Year’s. Boeing itself has been having a lot of orders that wait to be worked on. The
continuous growth of demand over the past few years has played a significant role in boosting
the fortunes of the industry in general (Borenstein, 2017). In the last quarter, Boeing made sales
of 184 commercial deliveries an increase from last year's 169 in the same period. In the second
quarter, Boeing managed to sell 194 commercial planes as compared to the same period in 2017.
In the third quarter, sales hit a low of 190 as compared to 202 in 2017. During the las...