There are two questions this week:

Question 1

Strategic issues for MNCs: Research NIKE and write one or two paragraphs explaining how NIKE INC handles the following issues.

Performance Evaluation Measures

oFinancial Evaluation - how does your NIKE INC regard its foreign operation

Investment center

Profit center

Cost center

oNon-Financial Evaluation - how are the unit and the managers evaluated

Foreign operating unit evaluation

Managers of the unit evaluation

Management Control Systems and National Cultures

oWhat steps, if any, is NIKE taking to be sensitive to national cultures

Question 2

According to Henry Mintzberg, the Japanese are successful because they are informal strategic learners, not formal strategic planners.

Mintzberg, H. (1994). The fall and rise of strategic planning. Harvard Business Review, 72(1), 107-114.

Write a paragraph on your opinion of Mintzberg's statement. Agree, disagree, or something in between.