Respond to the one of the following questions using the lessons and vocabulary found in the readings.

Question 1:

Evaluate whether the Fiat Auto acquisition of Chrysler represents a  growth strategy. Conduct outside research and prepare a 1 page (500)  analysis of the following key strategic issues:

• 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.

Question 2:

Evaluate one of the basic benefits of becoming multinational  corporations. Your textbook reading this week sets out the different  reasons firms cite when explaining why they cross the borders of their  home country and become multinational corporations. Read the three basic benefits highlighted in the text and in Figure 8-1.

• 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. In answering this question, be  sure to consider the international business conditions today and look  for the motivations that underlie these current trends. In your answer,  be sure to contrast the less important alternatives that you did not  select. It will create a more lively discussion if participants don’t  all select the same reason to defend as the most important, emergent  reason or benefit. This section of your post should be 1 page (500  words) in length.

The final section or paragraph (three or four sentences) of your  initial post should summarize the one or two key points that you are  making in your initial response.

******No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in APA format with cited sources and references.******

Due by 10/4/23