Based on lecture 1 and the slides for Toyota Download slides for Toyota, answer the following questions:
- Do you consider Toyota as an international business? Based on which IB features?
- Which region has most of Toyota’s plants? Why? Provide some data to back up your response.
- 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?
- Where does Toyota do most of its R&D? Why? Is decentralized R&D a strategy? Explain in a few sentences
- What are the pros and cons of decentralizing R&D?
- What was Toyota’s 2019 R&D expenses in US dollars?
- 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?
- For Toyota, identify some of the home and host countries.
- What kind of services Toyota might require for its global operations? What locational advantage might Singapore have for Toyota?
- What kind of services Toyota might require for its global operations? What locational advantage might Singapore have for Toyota?
