Describe how implementing the SPLIT framework can enhance team interaction and decision making in an organizational structure with people from different organizational units across nations working with one another.

1. The HBR reading on global teams that work is about the “personal” side of organizational structure. It describes how to deal with a common organizational structure problem about team members working together when they are not only culturally different, but also geographically distributed. Describe how implementing the SPLIT framework can enhance team interaction and decision making in an organizational structure with people from different organizational units across nations working with one another. 2. Describe IKEA’s entry strategy and business model for India, as well as the challenges presented by the Indian culture and the nation’s bureaucracy. What lessons on international strategy do we learn from this case? 3. Describe the major aspects of IKEA’s market entry strategy into Russia and the opportunities and challenges that this country presented. Based on the case, describe the role that institutions like the local national government and legal systems can have in the international experience of MNEs. 4. Compare and contrast the experience of IKEA in Russia and India. What similarities and differences do you see in the challenges presented to IKEA by these two developing economies? How are these similarities and differences manifested in the business model and entry strategies IKEA pursued? 5. The reading by Hadjimarcou and colleagues describes the current state of the Maquiladora industry along the U.S. – Mexico border, along with six strategies that may help Maquiladoras achieve success nowadays. Briefly describe the main points of the reading and the six strategies. Also, after a careful analysis of the strategies in light of the past few book chapters on international strategy, argue which two strategies are the ones more likely to help Maquiladoras in our region (Northeast Mexico and the RGV).