Influence of Macro-Environmental Factors to the Process of Integrating a Foreign Business Entity

Multinational companies and firms who are going to establish subsidiaries and business entities in foreign countries or on international markets have to deal with many different influencing factors during the integration process of the subsidiary to the origin company. Macro-economic factors as well as intercultural dimensions have to be considered in such a complex venture. This research project focuses on the influence of macroeconomic factors and the intercultural differences to the integration process. The aim of the research project is how macro-economic factors and intercultural differences influence the integration process of a new foreign business entity to the origin company and which preventive actions can be derived from correlations which occur from the empirical model to increase the efficiency of the integration process. Three main dimensions in this research project are going to be interlinked: The macro-economic factors, the intercultural dimensions and the integration process.