- Title
- Strategies for Chinese companies to enter the Port Elizabeth sports-shoe market
- Creator
- Guo, Zhi
- Subject
- Shoe industry -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Business enterprises, Foreign -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Subject
- Entrepreneurship -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Date Issued
- 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MTech
- Identifier
- vital:9005
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/516
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1011691
- Identifier
- Shoe industry -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Identifier
- Business enterprises, Foreign -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Identifier
- Entrepreneurship -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
- Description
- This research addressed the study of entry strategies by Chinese sports-shoe manufacturers into the South African sports-shoe market. The goal of this research is to investigate what are the appropriate entry strategies for Chinese sports-shoe companies to enter the South African sports-shoe market. A Chinese sports-shoe company, Li Ning Limited, was used as a case study to illustrate the methods to explore appropriate entry strategies. The research methodology included: {u10007A} A literature study to explore the popular entry strategies used to enter the South African and also global markets was conducted. In addition, the South African and Chinese market environments were investigated. {u10007A} An empirical study, a survey of sports-shoe customers and sports-shoe shops owners, was done in order to explore the advisable entry strategies for Chinese sports-shoe companies to enter the South African sports-shoe market. According to the literature study as well as the empirical study, the research explored some advisable entry strategies for Chinese sports-shoe companies into the South African domain.
- Format
- xii, 120 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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