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assignment has three parts. You should use brief headings to separate your post into the three sections.

For the first section of your post, evaluate whether the Fiat Auto acquisition of Chrysler represents a growth strategy.
•Analyze the external environment in which Fiat competes, including identification of the critical strategic factors in each of the following areas:
◦The General Environment
◦The Industry Environment
◦The Competitor Environment
•Based on the analysis of Fiat's external environment, what recommendations can you give Fiat's management to improve and continue the company's successful expansion of the Fiat vehicles into the United States market? Your recommendations should be an integrated and coordinated set of commitments and actions that will exploit the company's core competencies, sustain growth, and ensure maximum performance and value for shareholders.

For the second section of your post, you will briefly evaluate one of the basic benefits of becoming multinational corporations (Using the attached figure 1).Select one of the reasons (or benefits) and defend why it might be emerging as the most important one in firms' decisions to internationalize in the 21st Century. Be sure to help me understand the international business conditions today and look for the motivations that underlie these current trends. It would be helpful to contrast the less important alternatives that you did not select so I can best understand. While this part can get interesting and turn into an entire research paper, I only need 250-500 words in this section.

The final section or paragraph (three or four sentences) should summarize the one or two key points that you are making to best help me understand your notes thank you.

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// The environmental analysis by an organization helps to frame its success. The organizations in order to expand adopt various strategies and on the similar context, the discussion below with reference of Fiat highlights the ways adopted by it to gain customer loyalty and the major drawbacks faced by the industry. Further recommendations are also provided that will help the industry to expand successfully.//
Evaluation of Fiat Growth Strategy and Analyzing its Environment
In the automobile industry, Fiat and Chrysler quote best examples describing the need for acquisitions. Both the companies had faced critical situations in the past years, which hindered the success of the industry. Chrysler had faced a lot of difficulty in restructuring the whole business due to bankruptcy while Fiat was unable to satisfy its customers due to lack of the innovation. Thus, Fiat acquired Chrysler raising its overseas sales and getting benefited by taking a majority stake share of Chrysler. Thus, the acquisition proved to be a growth strategy for both the industries (Calabrese, 2012).
Analyzing the environment of an organization is highly crucial for its steady success. It helps an organization in identifying its strengths and weakness with the external opportunities and threats. Thus, it helps in building the competitive advantage for an organization (Hitt, Ireland & Hoskisson, 2008). Fiat had suffered from major drawbacks while dealing with its general environment. In terms of ...

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