Assingment Bs - Vietnam - a Single Party Communist State

-Vietnam is a Single Party Communist State. There is more likely to be higher government control and less autonomy for the organization wanting to enter the Vietnamese market. However, on the good side, Vietnam is more likely to have relatively greater political stability. Would be advisable to form good relations with the local government and negotiate favorable terms with them. The stable political environment will be good for the long-term development of Apple in Vietnam.

*PESTEL: There are many factors in the macro-environment that will affect on the decisions of the managers of any organization. Tax changes, new laws, trade barriers, demographic change and government policy changes are all examples of macro change. To help analyze these factors managers can categories them using the PESTEL model.

The PESTEL framework below analyses the dynamic and unpredictable environment in which Apple will operates by identifying the forces that have the most impact of Vietnam‘s environment on Apple performance.

 Political:

-Vietnam is a Single Party Communist State. There is more likely to be higher government control and less autonomy for the organization wanting to enter the Vietnamese market. However, on the good side, Vietnam is more likely to have relatively greater political stability. Would be advisable to form good relations with the local government and negotiate favorable terms with them. The stable political environment will be good for the long-term development of Apple in Vietnam.

-The open door policy of Vietnam to foreign trade and investment in the late 1980s and freed parts of the economy from state control. However, elements in the communist party have reacted with alarm to some social changes brought about by a decade of reform and open-door policies. This open door policy of Vietnamese government encourage foreign companies like Apple invest into Vietnam market. From this,