Research Paper on:
Joint Ventures, Global Trade, and Their Reasons

Unformatted Sample Text from the Research Paper:
for millennia. As soon as man found he was able to trade for items he could not or did not produce from himself international trade commenced. Although this may have  started in the times before there were written records it is only in the last few centuries that the trade has become more evident. The motivation behind many of the  trade routes opened and empires created was so that countries could make use of resources in countries other than their own. This may be for the commercial value and profit  it will bring, or for the wide scale recognition and respect that used to be associated with the size and power of an empire, but even where the motivation may  have been seen as partly that of power, it was always related to the obtaining and utilisation of good either not available in other places, or the prospect of them  being cheaper in that land. The motivation behind international trade may be seen to be made up of push factors and pull  factors. The pull factors may be seen in the attraction that new markets hold, such as new emerging or developing market where the product lifecycle stage in the growth phase  and there in a great demand (Thompson, 1998). This may be seen as the case in the case study supplied by the student, HPP have seen as opportunity in the  Chinese and Eastern European markets for their products, and this is a tempting market to enter with the prospect of increased profits.  Push factors can be seen as the factors which push a company to look to new markets,. These may be factors such as a mature home market with little room