Arcadia Group Case Study: Analysing FDI Impact on Profitability

This report examines the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on the profitability of businesses, using the Arcadia Group as a case study. The introduction highlights the influence of globalization on the fashion retail industry and the importance of FDI for market expansion. The main body of the report includes an analysis of project aims, objectives, and a project management plan outlining costs, scope, time, and resources. The study utilizes quantitative research methods, including questionnaires and surveys, to collect primary data from Arcadia Group employees. The data analysis focuses on thematic presentation, exploring themes such as globalization's facilitation of international market expansion and its role in introducing new technologies. The report provides interpretations of the findings and draws conclusions about the impact of FDI on business activities, ethical considerations, and recommendations for improving profitability. A logbook, conclusion, references, and appendices are included to provide a comprehensive overview of the research process and findings.

Managing a Successful Business Project

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
a). Establish clear aim & Objectives for the project...............................................................3
b). Project management plan..................................................................................................4
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c). Small scale research by applying quantitative research methods......................................8
d). Analysing and draw conclusions from your findings.....................................................10
e). Communicate recommendations in an appropriate manner............................................18
f). Reflective on the success of the project performance review..........................................19
g). Logbook..........................................................................................................................19
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................20
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................21
APPENDIX ...................................................................................................................................22

Title: “To identify impact of Foreign Direct Investment on profitability of business” A case
Study based on Arcadia Group.
INTRODUCTION
Globalisation has been given the high impact on the development areas of garment
industries in the developing nations. As per the previous researches, globalisation is the huge part
of the fashion industry. Global fashion retailers constantly focusing on the current trend, wants of
the consumers as per their culture and fashion preferences as well. Present study will be based on
the Arcadia Group which is a British multinational fashion retailer company situated in London.
Further, research will collect data and interpret with different research methodologies.
Foreign direct investment is the best approach to gain more market share new effective
market approach. Present study also discussed about the FDI and its impact on the business
environment.
MAIN BODY
a). Establish clear aim & Objectives for the project.
Background
Besides, On the same note, those companies also get affected by the up and downs of the
changes as well which might be not good for the company. The impact of globalisation can be in
positive Or negative manner (Bowen, Baker and Powell, 2015). The main purpose of this
research is to determine some positive impact of globalisation on fashion retail industry.
Foreign direct investment is an investment in the form of a controlling ownership of the
company from one country by an entity based in another country. FDI is the most challenging
and effective business technique that controls the best outcome results and development growth.
The origin of the investment helps to make the big opportunity for the business. Likewise,
multinational companies have benefit to make partnership with companies all around the world.
Globalisation factor enhance the importance of technology innovation that brought countries
together. Globalisation has also increased the chances of job opportunities, through which people
get source of earning and develop their effective living standards and growth. However, Arcadia
Group earlier get high profit from UK by selling fashion clothing outlets which become most
famous within the UK fashion market (Crane and Matten, 2016). Arcadia Group need to take

further step and try to expand the business into new global market as per the new growth of
market performance. To identify impact of FDI on profitability of business
Aim: “To identify impact of Foreign Direct Investment on profitability of business: A case
Study based on Arcadia Group”.
Objective:
 To understand the impact of FDI on profitability of business activities.
 To analyse the importance of FDI in terms of development in business profitability.
 To identify the ethical issues that company facing in globalisation process.
 To recommend some strategies in order to develop profitability of business by 5 %.
Research Question:
Q. What are the impact of FDI on profitability of business activities?
Q. What are the importance of FDI in terms of development in business profitability?
Q. What are the ethical issues that company facing in globalisation process?
Q. What are the strategies in order to develop profitability of business by 5 %?
b). Project management plan.
Cost: Cost is the most essential element in the project management that consists set
budget and estimated cost of all the resources. Such as present research has been taken cost of
£450.
Scope: Scope refers to the importance of topic of the research which is important for
researcher to get know. (Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017. The scope of research is wide where will
explore information to boost learning over implication of globalisation that is foreign direct
investment.
Time: Time is the factor that helps to let the people know what is the starting and ending
date of the project. Such as present research has been completing in 8 weeks.
Quality: Quality represents the weight age of output return, that must be either good or
bad which is depends on the quality of data and efforts put in the research. Quality of research
will be maintained by adhering to ethics.
Communication: Communication helpful to pass the information in each other between
the group. This process helpful to take and analyse information from respondents through
verbally and non-verbally as well.

Risk: Risk is the common element which involves in every activity or plan. This creates
uncertain situation that must be uncontrollable like time, cost, etc. In present project, Risk
involve in collecting efficient information from the respondents.
Resources: It is another significant element which is most helpful to get the final
outcomes of the process. Resources are the most essential element without which project
management cannot full fill their aim or target. This will help to full fill the activity target
performance in order to meet out the best outcomes. Resources would be capital, human
resource, techniques, source of information, analytics tools, etc.
Project management plan

Design 1 day Fri 4/13/18 Fri 4/13/18
Development of Project
Initiation Document 5 days Mon 4/16/18 Fri 5/4/18 1
Determining resources of
project 2 days Mon 5/7/18 05/09/18 2
Formulation of goals and
objectives 6 days Mon 5/21/18 Mon 5/27/18 2,3
Setting deadlines 1 day Tue 5/29/18 Tue 5/30/18 4
Gathering Team 5 days Wed 5/30/18 Tue 6/35/18 5
Develop 1 day Wed 6/20/18 Wed 6/21/18 6
Conducting meeting 5 days Thu 6/21/18 Wed 7/25/18 5,7
Scope of project 5 days Thu 7/5/18 07/10/18 8
Collection of data 2 days Thu 7/12/18 Wed 7/14/18 9
WBS structuring 3 days Thu 7/26/18 Wed 8/29/18 10
Planning of budget 4 days Thu 8/9/18 Tue 8/13/18 11
Implement 1 day Wed 8/29/18 Wed 8/30/18 12
Assuring quality 2 days Thu 8/31/18 10/02/18 13
Training of team 3 days 10/03/18 10/06/18 14
Evaluate 1 day 10/07/18 10/08/18 15
Change control integration 3 days 10/09/18 11/12/18 16
Monitoring and control of
project 2 days Mon 11/13/18 Fri 11/15/18 17
Checking of quality 1 days Mon 11/16/18 Fri 12/17/18 18
Closure 1 day Mon 12/18/18 Mon 12/19/18 19

Evaluation of project 1 days Tue 12/18/18 Mon 1/19/19 20
Areas of modification 1 days Tue 1/20/19 Mon 1/21/19 21
Work break down structure & Gantt Chart in order to making time frames as well.
Work break down structure
Work breakdown structure deliverables that organizes the team work into manageable
sections. WBS define the hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project
team. This structure helps to decomposition of the work breakdown structure as a deliverable
oriented.
Illustration 1: Work Break Down Structure

Gantt chart
Gantt Chart is a type of bar chart that illustration a project schedule. This chart lists the
tasks to be performed on the vertical axis. It is the best way to scheduling tools in project
management. Gantt chart gives clear picture of a project status in order to solve the issues of task
dependency level. This technique generally used in the project management which is the most
easiest way to showing the activities more properly.
Illustration 2: Gantt Chart
c). Small scale research by applying quantitative research methods.
Research Approach: Research approach is the significant method of matter and facts that
discover the new study material task. There are two types of research approach deductive and
inductive research approaches. Inductive research refers to the method where researcher starts
with observation to theories towards the end of the research process. Besides, deductive

approach refers to develop a hypothesis on existing theory. Present study will be using inductive
research approach where different theories and evidences will be outlined to find outcome on
globalisation and its implication.
Data collection: It is the process of collecting data from the different sources to meet the
aim and objectives of the research. This has been divided into two categories secondary and
primary methods of data collection (Bresler and Stake, 2017).
Primary data collection refers to the fresh new data that has been collected by researcher
from different methods or techniques such as questionnaire, interviews, observation etc. primary
data collection method is quite difficult as compare to secondary method. Present study has been
using questionnaire with the help of survey to collect primary data.
Secondary data collection method is the simplest method to collect data which is collected
through existing data. To collects Secondary data, researchers generally has adopted ways such
as Internet, Books, Journals etc.
Data Analysis: Once data has collected, next process is that to develop the analysis and
interpret the data to find out the outcomes results. There are two types of data analysis method
Qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods.
Qualitative method of data analysis refers to the non-numeric form of analyse the data in
the form of table, graphs, interpretation as per the suggestions of respondents. Qualitative
method has been generally based on thematic framework as well (Mackey and Gass, 2015).
Quantitative method of data analysis refers to turn data into mathematical form which
includes some mathematical term of data collection. This process consists calculations of
frequencies of variables and difference between variables of quantitative approach is usually
associated with findings evidence. Quantitative data analysis method has been done with the help
of mean, median, mode.
Present study will be based on qualitative method of data analysis with the help of
thematic presentation. Qualitative help more collect and present data into more systematic
manner.
Sampling: Sampling is the principle which selects respondents as per the study
requirement. There are two types of sampling method probability sampling and non-probability
method of sampling. Probability sampling method give chance of participation to whole
populations. On the apart, non-probability method of sampling has selected some selected group

of members only. Such as present study based on simple random sampling where they selected
20 employees of Arcadia Group to collect information or data in order to identify the impact of
Foreign Direct Investment on profitability of business (Silverman, ed., 2016).
Ethical consideration: Ethical consideration is the most essential and vital determinants
factor in research that helps to protect from illegal forms of restrictions. Ethical consideration
guide researcher about the wrong and right things of study. Such as for present research,
Researcher needs to be disciplined while collecting data and ensure that no one get affected from
this research in negative manner. Researcher needs to acquire confidentiality of information
while conducting the questionnaire.
d). Analysing and draw conclusions from your findings.
Theme 1: Globalisation has facilitated Arcadia Group in term of international market
expansion
1 Is globalisation has facilitated Arcadia Group in term of international market? Frequency
Yes 15
No 5

Interpretation: As per this above table and data, it has been found that 15 number of
respondents were suggested that globalisation is the best way to facilitate company to expand the
business into international market. They also recommended for the company to adopt expansion
strategies to attract national or international customer. On the contrary, as per the 5 employees
the result comes in against side. As per them globalisation is just creates negative influences
towards the company and enhance the chances of uncertainties. It has been evaluated that, large
number of respondents reflect towards the good side of globalisation.
Theme 2: Globalisation helps to introduces new way of learning and technologies
2. Does globalisation helps to introduces new
way of learning and technologies
Frequency
Yes 16
No 4
15
5
Yes
No