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Political governance and corporate governance

Essay - 15 pages - Management

The 20th century was viewed as the age of management; the early 21st century is predicted to be more focused on governance. There is a distinction between politics and governance, where the former is regarded as cooperation between people with different points of view in order to improve the...

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Why should a company improve its employees' working conditions? Inquiry on Bouygues construction

Essay - 8 pages - Human resources

How can business improve people's lives? That is the issue of this inaugural seminar, and we decided to study a sector where there are real risks for employees, such as the building trade. On this way we chose Bouygues Construction, because we were sure that such a worldwide company would provide...

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Taylor and scientific management

Essay - 10 pages - Management

Even if Taylor's main researches date from the end of the XIXth century, these still exert an important influence on nowadays' industries, such as the car industry. Indeed, Taylor's works remain an important basis in the organizational structure of many fields of activities. Obviously, many...

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Management of a terroir company: The example of the Burgundian cheese producer Berthaut

Essay - 15 pages - Management

The Fromagerie Berthaut is one of the four AOC Epoisses producers. It is located in Côte d'Or, in Burgundy. Since 1956, this cheese dairy has produced the “Epoisses”, a terroir soft dough cheese made with raw milk. Over the last ten years, the company's sales have regularly increased in...

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American HRM model vs. European HRM model: Is the American model exportable to Europe?

Case study - 5 pages - Human resources

The success of the American firms and the rapid economic growth of the country seem to give significant emphasis on the US way of managing a business. Seen as part of management, the US strategic human resource management models are often considered to be the best practice and the key to success....

15 Jan 2009
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Business communication: Netflix and Amazon.com

Case study - 7 pages - Business strategy

Amazon is company which has been experiencing strong expansion. They moved from book distribution to, tools, auto, industrial, sports, health & beauty, grocery, electronics & computers and other products and services. Amazon is constantly scrutiny new market for new growth opportunities. The...

15 Jan 2009
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Google case study

Essay - 6 pages - Business strategy

Nowadays, Google is considered more as a daily useful tool than a large worldwide company. This Google website is so essential for all the IT users that we have the tendency to forget the men, the women and the know-how behind this wonderful and rapid search tool. But behind this webpage, a huge...

15 Jan 2009
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Patagonia company

Case study - 17 pages - Business strategy

Nowadays, people increasingly realize that the earth is in danger and that if we keep on damaging it the future generation will face significant problems such as lack of water, of natural resources and global warming. That's why many actions are taken by numerous organisations and that people not...

15 Jan 2009
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Diamonds on ice

Essay - 5 pages - Business strategy

In An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith said: “A diamond, (…), has scared any value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it”. Thus, a diamond is not only a “girl's best friend”...

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A number of assumptions are typically made on preferences to give so-called "well-behaved indifference curves"

Essay - 5 pages - Management

The consumer choice theory aims, among other things, at modeling preferences that will guide the consumer in his choices. To do this, an assumption will be made: the consumer is able to rank any two consumption bundles as to their desirability, that is, the consumer is aware of his own tastes and...

15 Jan 2009
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Gender related differences in patterns of employment in Sweden, and the effects of the parental leave in a woman's employment

Essay - 15 pages - Human resources

Sweden is very often taken as a model when a conversation comes to any gender or equity related question. It is said to be, not without any reason, one of the most if not the most advanced country in the world as far as equality of chances or the cause of women are concerned. Tough, it had long...

15 Jan 2009
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An analysis of the structure of the canadian retail industry - published: 15/01/2009

Essay - 9 pages - Management

A common theme of the Canadian retail industry is that it is evolving at a rapid pace. External factors, such as the growth in the relative purchasing power of the Canadian dollar; increasing competition from discount rivals such as Wal-Mart; shifting consumer trends; and the emergence of the...

15 Jan 2009
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SNCF - Short strategic overview: Example of business process redesign

Essay - 5 pages - Business strategy

The SNCF (Société National des Chemins de Fer) is the national railway operator in France and manager of the railway infrastructure owned by the RFF (Réseau Ferré de France). The company is a French public entity with autonomous management established under the special status of an Establishment...

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The role of the TARGET system in the European financial integration

Essay - 4 pages - Finance

When Euro was introduced in 1999 as the European single currency, a large value payment system was also set up. The so-called Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer (TARGET) system was expected to be the basis of both financial integration and European Central Bank...

15 Jan 2009
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Do we have the right balance between responsibility for budget implementation and political accountability for the Union budget's use?

Essay - 5 pages - Government finance

The evolution of the budgetary procedure, with the new financial regulation of 2002, has increased the responsibility of the different actors and clarified the different management methods, increasing the transparency of the whole procedure. Those changes allow us to wonder if there is, today, a...

15 Jan 2009
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Impacts of RFID on the supply chain

Essay - 6 pages - Management

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Technologies) has become very popular and is considered as a major advanced in supply chain management. In fact, RFID is the fastest growing segment of the automatic data capture and identification market. RFID is a technique for electronic labeling and...

15 Jan 2009
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The prospects and limitations of a global governance of finance

Essay - 4 pages - Finance

In our modern societies, market mechanisms shape the modes of production and distribution of goods and services, particularly more and more through the financial sphere, “that part of an economy that links savings with investments through different instruments denominated in monetary...

15 Jan 2009
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Structuralism and history: Levi-Strauss, Althusser, Foucault

Essay - 10 pages - Business strategy

Structuralism may originate from Saussurian linguistics. In the Course of General Linguistics, Saussure defines one essential methodological principle: in response to previous methodologies, which defined historical evolution as the main object of linguistics, Saussure assumes that language must...

15 Jan 2009
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Barclays versus RBS, Santander and Fortis

Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy

ABN Amro bank comes from the merger between two Dutch banks Algermene Bank Netherlands N.V. and Amsterdam Rotterdam Bank N.V. in 1991. ABN Amro's strategic focus is on consumer and commercial clients in local markets and on corporations and financial institutions in the global market. Currently...

15 Jan 2009
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Corporate Strategy: Chop Chop Analysis of Total Group

Essay - 3 pages - Business strategy

Total is France's largest corporation as well as the fourth largest publicly-traded integrated oil and gas company in the world. Total is involved in three major segments: downstream, upstream, and chemicals. In the following report, we carefully analyzed these three business segments to...

15 Jan 2009
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How do Toy industries react about the problem of counterfeiting & product piracy?

Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy

The fight against counterfeiting is a battle which requires an approach on many levels. It is estimated that counterfeit toys account for 12 per cent of the European toy market. Counterfeiting is a danger for the health of the consumer whose undermines industries and makes criminal organisations...

15 Jan 2009
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Cultural diversity is a source of competitive advantage. Discuss

Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy

« To succeed internationally, we need to understand the cultures of the world; and we have all the cultures of the world represented right here - a tremendous competitive advantage. » ? Ernest Thompson, Proctor and Gamble Nowadays, globalisation, which is a phenomenon mainly generated by the...

15 Jan 2009
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Introduction to research & development decision analysis

Essay - 5 pages - Finance

A firm optimizes its market value when it successfully implements strategies that generate positive discounted cash flows applied against initial investments with net present value (NPV) greater than zero. One purely economic analysis, which serves as a guidepost to this work, applies a...

15 Jan 2009
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"Corporate virtue" strategies are more likely to cause "good governance" than stricter "compliance and control" regimes

Essay - 4 pages - Management

What is “good corporate governance”? And how an enterprise can achieve to have it? A number of writers and researchers gave their contribution to this subject. Nevertheless, some disagreements and conflicting points of view appeared among them. Indeed, some suggested that corporate...

13 Jan 2009
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Francotours: A human resources strategy

Essay - 4 pages - Human resources

Organizational Development is a term used to define the growing process of an organization. An organization's successful development and evolution depends on its ability to create the following: a vision (or identity) that clearly defines its purpose; the leadership capacity to clearly...

13 Jan 2009
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General Motors Company : an analysis

Essay - 13 pages - Business strategy

It is hard to imagine that General Motors, one of the leading car companies, occupying 15% of the automobile market and that in 2003 alone earned $3.8 billion on record revenue of $185.5 billion, was founded in the small town of Flint, Michigan, by an ingenious salesman and labourer, William...

13 Jan 2009
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An Irish firm in the Chinese Market

Market study - 9 pages - Business strategy

Enterprise Ireland, positioned in the cosmetics field, is willing to enter an international market. With 15% of annual growth in the global market, China becomes more and more attractive for businesses all around the world. In Europe, the attractiveness is intensified by the amount of trade...

13 Jan 2009
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Britain and the euro: not for yesterday, not for today, not for ever...?

Essay - 14 pages - Finance

The EMS's Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) has long been a source of political controversy, playing for instance a relevant part in the final drama of Margaret Thatcher's resignation as a serving Prime Minister. Britain entered the ERM in 1990 to exit from it in 1992 and afterward, the new...

13 Jan 2009
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Oracle Systems Corporation

Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy

In 1990, the CEO of Oracle Systems Corporation is facing increasing pressure from analysts about the aggressive revenue-recognition policy. As a result, the stock price is plumbed and the CEO is worried about the cost of new equity capital to finance future growth and the firm may become a...

13 Jan 2009
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Easy Jet, Strategic management project

Essay - 12 pages - Business strategy

The airlines industry has been highly perturbed by many new external and internal events since the last five years (September 11th, increasing of fuel value, and recently many technical incidents in some flights). All these components transform major stakes and keys of the different airlines...