Corporate culture: Case study of IKEA
Case study - 19 pages - Human resources
"Let us begin with an anecdote to highlight the theme of corporate culture in an intelligible and meaningful manner”. The following testimony is that of an officer of a company which was recently formed by the merger of two industrial companies: "When I need a new piece, I can...
Pfizer corporate culture
Case study - 11 pages - Management
Pfizer is an American pharmaceutical corporation. In 2006, it was the leader in its sector at a worldwide level with a turnover of 48,371 billion dollars and 106 000 employees in the entire world. Pfizer is also the first investor in private biomedical research undertaken in order to invent,...
Innocent Drinks or how a non-corporate attitude can be an exemplary corporate culture
Case study - 3 pages - Management
My company being a small one (4 people, me included), I couldn't really write a whole essay about corporate culture. I decided to base my paper on the company that motivated me i.e, Fresh Marketing. Founded in 1998, after a very original market survey , it's main objective...
The Apple corporate culture
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Apple Computer Inc. is an American multinational corporation founded on the first of August, 1976. Strong because of its 35000 employees, the firm dropped the word 'Computer' in 2007. Created by Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, Apple is currently a significant success....
Corporate culture - published: 23/11/2010
Case study - 5 pages - Management
In the sixties, businesses still had an essentially rational management of the company. A little later, came an understanding of the enormous importance the human dimension in management. Economists in the late seventies highlighted this after their research on a new dimension of cultures-...
A Dutch-French comparative corporate cultures survey through the study of the financing structures of two key-sectors multinational companies: KPN v. France Telecom; Royal Dutch Shell v. Total
Dissertation - 36 pages - Finance
The main cultural assumption in this research paper is about, the French corporate culture once being Latin-like and the Dutch one having been German-like, both the corporate culture of France and the Netherlands firms are converging towards the Anglo-Saxon model. In...
Corporate culture
Essay - 5 pages - Business strategy
Culture appears for many managers as a quite simple deal: it corresponds to what the company stands for, its "identity", being widespread in the organization, easy to manipulate and to embed, a tool for making all the stakeholders going in the same direction. It's labeled the...
The corporate culture
Essay - 9 pages - Management
Today, companies need to create and develop their corporate culture to transmit an image and identity. It permits to build a stimulant and attractive environment in the company and the employees feel the affiliation to a group. In this way, firms are more effective, productive,...
Corporate culture and intercultural management
Essay - 32 pages - Management
For companies, in a climate of increased international competition, it is important to anticipate the impact of culture on the economy. Indeed, cultures influence not only the individual behaviors but also and especially the designs of the company, the strategy, the right, finance...
Corporate Corruption: Culture of Enron
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
Shareholder value was being diluted. It was worse than just being dishonest: stock options provided managers with strong incentives to get the value of their stocks up quickly - what mattered was not long-term strength but short-term appearances. Corporate officers responded to the...
Can culture be the principal source of intercultural conflicts in organizations?
Dissertation - 28 pages - Human resources
It is true that intercultural conflicts happen frequently in all fields and industries and should not be seen as a dramatic phenomenon because it simply reflects divergences of opinion, experiences, beliefs and interpretations. However, can culture really be the principal source of...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Human Resources
Case study - 3 pages - Human resources
In our era, CSR is not only a "trendy" matter but has a real impact on the positioning of the company and its impact on the society. Initiatives can be found in every department: Human Resources make no exception. This is related to my future first dream job: HR manager or Business Partner in a...
Organizational culture at Google
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Google is a universal public corporation that deals with Internet searching, advertising, and Web-based computing technology. Besides this, it also works on creating a variety of online products and services such as several desktop applications, the Gmail software, the Google Chrome online...
Corporate digital communication - Lacoste
Case study - 36 pages - Medias&communication marketing
This document tackles Lacoste's corporate digital communication plan and strategy. To study the communication plan and strategy, a full analysis is presented in the document, concerning Lacoste's customers, its environment, its online advertising and many more aspects.
Screen Culture Review on the Screening Materials
Case study - 4 pages - Computer science
In 1982, Peters and Waterman published the book “In Search of Excellence” that was based on McKinsey's model elements (Collins, 2007). It focused on structure, strategy, style of management, skills, staff, and shared values to determine the exact nature in which those elements...
Apple Organization Culture
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
Over the years, most organizations have changed their approach of conducting their operations for them to cope with changing environmental factors. As a result, organizations whose management divert from the defined course by their organization's culture never live to accomplish the...
Multinational Corporations and their Consequences on the International Economy
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Multinational corporations are those businesses that have a direct ownership of assets, which they run in more than one state outside their country in which they are built-in, and also they generally retain their headquarters. It means that these corporations have roots in their state. However;...
The success behind the Walt Disney Corporation
Case study - 4 pages - Tourism marketing
The statement below by CEO of Walt Disney Corporation explains precisely the message and goal of Disney, and how it has been so successful over the past century. Walt Disney is a legend, a name that is now synonymous with an empire. The World Disney is one of fun, imagination, and games, a world...
Global Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Although equated to philanthropic activities, today's investment by corporations in pro-social programs seek to create a social impact beyond building customer loyalty. With the society experiencing a myriad of issues, among them environmental sustainability and health issues, assuming an active...
Time Warner Corporation
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
Alike other sectors, success in the entertainment industry never arises overnight, but rather involves running the enterprise based on creativity and timely strategizing to weather obstacles which threaten the survival of the entities. Typically, the formidable strength of players in the...
Corporate strategy - Disney +
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
Entertainment giant Disney's new streaming platform is undoubtedly a major turning point for the company. Disney+ is an online video-on-demand platform owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International division with the four...
Case study On Japans Changing Culture
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Panasonic was established in 1920 but it's initially it was known as Matsushita before 2009. It is one of the building blocks of the rise in Japan as a major economic power. It was a company that embraced the Japanese traditional culture. The company treated its employees with great care...
Geography, Demography, Social Issues, Education and Culture in the United States of America
Course material - 20 pages - Sociology
(...) One of the characteristics of US climatic conditions is the constant fear of violent climatic happening such as hurricanes (in the Southeast, particularly during the fall), violent wind storms known as "tornadoes" (the Midwest), or flooding due to heavy rainfall and storms in the eastern...
Management and cultural aspects
Course material - 25 pages - Management
Human beings have needs in order to survive and the purpose of economic activity is to satisfy these needs by providing people with what they need. Such needs will vary from person to person because each person seeks different things at different times. Those who are poor would like to satisfy...
Organizational culture case study of BHP Billiton Company
Case study - 8 pages - Management
Understanding of the entity culture is vital in the description of the immediate organizational phenomena to which glues and aligns the operation elements into a shared system that delivers desired results. For some, culture is perceived the entity's compass that provides direction...
The Social-Cultural Identity of Greek- Americans
Case study - 10 pages - Political science
According to some, Astoria is the largest “city” of the Greek outside the Athens-Greece. The New York's Queens Neighborhoods of Astoria, New York conjure up the image of a Greek immigrant community that has lived in it for over forty years (Hantzopoulos, 2005). For the Greeks and their...
Analysis of Sony Corporation
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Today's business environment is rapidly changing prompting organizations to have agility towards change direction and speed their responses to dynamic macroeconomic elements. Grounding operations for efficiency and existing strategies is not enough for organizations to thrive given the...
Managerial Economics: Welfare Corporate Social Responsibility
Case study - 5 pages - Criminal law
Free market theory was a dominant theme of the 1780s propagated by economists such as Adam Smith. Amongst other things was its exclusive resolve that there should be minimal government involvement in the business of the economy if any at all. It was the era of the industrialization concerned with...
Strategic Management Analysis Starbucks Corporation
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
With restaurant operators facing intense competition every dawn, coupled with rising costs attributed to factors of production, there exists not a room left for strategic errors in the sector. Contrary to the thought of start-up restaurateurs, operating in the food service industry demands beyond...
Vinten's summation : Ethics and Corporate governance issues
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
The aim of this paper is to provide a critical discussion of Vinten's summation of the whistle-blowing that “For one thing the whistle-blowing path is not easy, and the bee-sting phenomenon may often apply. One has only one sting to use, and by using it, may well kill off one's...
