Critically discuss to what extent Porter’s Diamond is a useful concept in explaining home and host location strategies of international business? Illustrate your answer with reference to at least two case companies. The main aim of International business is to build and sustain competitiveness for economic value creation in both domestic and overseas markets (Besanko et al. 2007). Internalization business theory however has a variety of models that can identify the environmental analysis of specific
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American Journal of Sociological Research 2012‚ 2(5): 90-97 DOI: 10.5923/j.sociology.20120205.01 Rebranding and Organisational Performance- Some Issues of Relevance Anil Kumar Singh‚ Vikas Tripathi‚ Priyender Yadav * Institute of Business M anagement‚ GLA University‚ M athura‚ 281406‚ India Abstract Dispensing with an established brand‚ often the culmination of many years of continuous investment‚ and perfunctorily replacing it with a new brand would seem to contradict a century of marketing
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CAREER MANAGEMENT AN OVERVIEW Career Management is a Lifelong‚ self-monitored process of career planning that involves choosing and setting personal goals‚ and formulating strategies for achieving them. Career Management is your responsibility and it gives you more control over how much you enjoy your worklife. However‚ there are times in your career when it will require more input‚ especially if you are looking for a job move or promotion. The career management process begins with
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Introduction The Galley represents as a restaurant‚ which has approximately 150 seats to serve in a canteen style restaurant. It is situated on the top floor of an eight-story building. Until 2012 it had offered a buffet service for the employees of that building. Actually the galley Cafeteria had links with a shipping company. In 2013 as per the huge international competition‚ it was taken over by a Lunchbox UK Ltd. Lunchbox UK Ltd provided all the existing 20 staff of the Galley’s restaurant with
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Why did many governments appear threatened by Google? How did they counter this threat? Discuss each country separately. Many governments appeared threatened by Google because they feared that by allowing the American-based company into their country it would dilute their nation’s culture. France took a very aggressive approach in trying to deter Google’s presence in their nation by developing their own‚ government-funded search engine called Quaero. The idea behind Quaero was to create
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it offers. To achieve this goal‚ organisations employ certain ethics that control their attitudes‚ beliefs‚ experiences and values. This ethical characteristic of an organisation is known as its ’organisational culture’. In their book Strategic Management‚ Hill and Jones (2001) define organisational culture as the specific collection of values and norms that are shared by people and groups in an organisation‚ and that control the way they interact with each other and with stakeholders outside the organisation
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Organisational culture of an organisation is defined as the organisations expectations‚ philosophy‚ experience and values that have been developed over time and contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organisation. This is expressed in their self-image‚ inner workings‚ and dealings in how the organisation conducts its business and treats its employees including the wider community‚ as well as their shared beliefs and collective goals for the future. (Drach-Zahavy‚ Goldblatt
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Importance of Structure and Culture on Organisational Effectiveness Introduction Robbins and Judge define organisational behaviour as ‘a method for understanding individual and group behaviour to facilitate organisational performance and effectiveness’ (Robbins and Judge‚ 2007). Robbins (2003) highlights the importance of managers studying organisational behaviour as this will help them to develop the people skills needed to deal with employers on a day-to-day basis‚ which is the fundamental aspect
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Knowledge Management and Organizational Culture: Toward a broader perspective on how organizational culture impacts knowledge management. The words knowledge and management are two extremely broad concepts when separated. When the two words come together‚ it speaks of an idea that strives to organize information in a way that produces an advantage for an organization. While anyone would think that harnessing the knowledge of an organization is a positive thing to do‚ there are many who do not
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ETHICS AND PERFORMANCE: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF BUSINESS ETHICS ON ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITHIN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY. HSBC HOLDING PLC AS THE CASE STUDY. CONTENTS List of figures and tables ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Executive summary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 Acknowledgement ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6
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