Written assignment: Examine the question of at-home union manufacturing versus overseas manufacturing for ECCO. Do back of the envelope assessments of the following two questions: (1) Could ECCO...

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Title: Strategic Management
Contents
Introduction    3
Could ECCO remain profitable if it did all of its manufacturing at home    3
Could ECCO remain profitable if it dramatically increased the compensation    4
Conclusion    5
Works Cited    6
Introduction
The case ECCO A/S- Global Value Chain System reflects strengths and weaknesses of the company in global facets. It is a distinguished company, which has made its mark at international platform through its footwear business. It has high quality offerings is leisure, sports and athletics, which has helped in creating a base of premium customers.
It is exploiting global value chain so its production facilities outside Denmark can help in taking advantage of developing economies by lowering the production costs. As industry has low threat of competition, still it has invested in technology and business processes so that optimized production can be streamlined.
Could ECCO remain profitable if it did all of its manufacturing at home
ECCO will not be able to hold the profitable status for long if it manufactures all at homes because the in order to cater the needs of other international markets such as Asia it is required that it sets its production facilities in leading Asian countries which have supporting infrastructure and facilities.
As per Leiblein et al., the European market is towards saturation and it is always feasible for ECCO in terms of exploring new markets for business. As it has one facility in China, which will be hub of major giants in near future, therefore, distributing from that location will be economically more viable for the company.
If ECCO shows reluctance to outsourcing decision, it will keep costs on...