Samsung's international strategy. An Analysis

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, , course: international business, language: English, abstract: Samsung Group is a giant multinational enterprise composed of more than thirty affiliated corporations in various industries. Samsung Group is acting a significant of roles including supplier, designer, engineer and producer etc. As a global conglomerate, Samsung has achieved a great success in both domestic and foreign markets. Samsung mobile business has contributed enormously to the whole company, providing mobile phones that satisfy consumers’ needs. Samsung maintain the first position with innovated products, such as the Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note edge across the whole mobile and smartphone markets in the world in 2014. A closer look will be taken on Samsung’s mobile communications business. As Samsung intends to expand global footprint, international business strategy would be adopted inevitably by the company. The purpose of this paper is to exam a case of Samsung Mobile and explores how the environment impacts on Samsung’s international strategy by using appropriate strategic tools.