Case Study on Wal-Mart's poor operating performance in Germany -- with respect to International Management

1.0 Introduction Wal-Mart is a retailing company founded by Sam Walton and his brother in 1962 (Deresky, 2006). With its first store in Arkansas (Deresky, 2006), focusing "... on the small-town backwaters of America" (Slater, 2003, p.5), Wal-Mart has now grown into a billion-dollar international enterprise (Slater, 2003). However, being successful in the Mexican, Canadian, Argentinean and Brazilian markets (Deresky, 2006) did not help Wal-Mart's venture into the German market. Since their initial entry in 1997 through the acquisition of two other German hypermarkets, …showed first 75 words of 3494 total…

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