Contemparory Management

Need to answer 6 Questions and summary includes 1500 words. Q1: What are the risks that Microsoft has faced in operating in China and dealing with the Chinese government? Do you see these risks as increasing, diminishing, or changing in the future?Are these risks unique to China or present in other developing countries? Q2: What approaches did Microsoft take to manage its political risks in China? Why might it have favored some of these techniques versus others? Which do you feel worked best? What should Microsoft do going forward? Q3: In its dealings with China, Microsoft frequently had to deal with lower levels of government. What special types of challenges and opportunities did this present? Q4: Do other firms have the same risk management options as Microsoft? If so, why? If not, why not? Q5: Is Microsoft creating serious risks by supporting, financing, and transferring techonology to local Chinese software firms? How might Microsoft manage thses risks? 6. Should Microsoft follow Google in the latter’s challenge to Internet censorship in China? What are the advantages? What is the disadvantage? If it should, then what are the implications for its business elsewhere around the globe?