DOING BUSINESS IN ITALY Appearances mean a lot to Italians; they judge a person based on the way he or she dresses and carries him or herself. The first impressions they form about someone usually are the lasting impressions. For that reason‚ one should always be respectful when greeting italians and attentive to his or her appearance when doing business in Italy. The greetings are enthusiastic‚ but formal. When greeting someone for the first time‚ one should give a handshake with direct eye
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(individual work only and remember to always answer all parts of the question; in some cases you have up to 3 parts in 1 questions). Keep your answers short‚ max one paragraph per question. 1. What is Operation‚ what is Supply Chain; relate this to a product or service and provide some examples? Operations is the manufacturing and service processes that are used to transform the resources employed by a firm into products/services desired by the customer. Manufacturing takes raw resources and produces
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Country Background A 180 km wide on average‚ Chile is 4‚300km long from the border with Peru on the north to the Strait of Magellan on the South. Sheltered by the Andes on the East and the Pacific Ocean on the west‚ Chile is all but impervious to foreign pets and disease. The north is rich in mining and marine resources. Central Chile‚ home to the nation’s capital‚ is a major agricultural and industrial hub. In the south‚ rich fisheries and forest resources are managed under stringent conservation
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mind in business. Masculinity-Femininity Spain is a highly egalitarian country‚ is considered a modern country where men and women have equal rights and obligations. Uncertainty Avoidance Spain is high uncertainty avoidance. Spanish people like to have the situation under control‚ without contingencies. People are influenced by the thought of the family and do not take too much risk. Personal contacts and relationships are essential for the business success
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RESEACH A BUSINESS AND EXAMINES ITS INPUTS‚ TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES AND OUTPUTS. EXPLAIN THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON THIS BUSINESS. THEN DISCUSS WHAT CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY IS AND HOW A BUSINESS CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. Operations management is concerned with overseeing‚ designing and controlling the process of production and then turning raw materials and resources into outputs of finished goods or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient
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Business Cultures Individual Assignment Prepare a paper (and give a short presentation ca. 15 minutes) describing the business culture in a chosen country or market area. You should discuss the elements of the business culture there‚ consider which features to be crucial and worth knowing in marketing and business there‚ give recommendations and draw conclusions on appropriate marketing strategies and policies in that country. Focus on the elements of business cultures discussed earlier.
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Doing Business in Canada 2012 Finding Opportunities and Avoiding Pitfalls Cover photo: Panoramic view of the City of Vancouver in British Columbia‚ Canada Doing Business in Canada 2012 Finding Opportunities and Avoiding Pitfalls mccarthy.ca Managing Editor Robert W. F. Stephenson IN MEMORIAM This annual publication‚ like the ones before it‚ was edited by Robert Stephenson‚ a partner in our Business Law Group in Toronto‚ who passed away on February 12‚ 2012. Robert’s law practice
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of management are becoming increasingly similar. However‚ this conversion has a limit. Some cross-cultural differences will not disappear so easily and managers will have to understand and appreciate these cultural oddities’ if they wish to run a successful business. Let us take China and France as examples of two very different countries that may have cross-cultural problems while doing business. First we will give a general overview of the two countries and then discuss some management practices
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774 UNSW Law Journal Volume 30(3) THE COMPANY LAW AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT ENTERPRISES IN THE PRC - PARALLEL SYSTEMS OF CHINESE-FOREIGN REGULATION VIVIEl\!NE BATW I INTRODUCTION When the Chinese-foreign Equity Joint Venture Law! (’EN Law’) was flfst passed in 1979‚ it was one of a select group of laws which constituted the first step in the re-creation of a Chinese legal system. The EN Law and the laws relating to foreign investment enterprises which followed it and made possible
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balance-of-payments gap‚ the red carpet it rolls out is a little dusty. A year after rules were eased to permit foreign “single-brand” retailers to operate in India‚ Sweden’s IKEA is still waiting for the go-ahead to sell Nordic comfort food and furniture. India’s cabinet has yet to make its mind up about the flat-packed sort‚ it seems. The delay may become just another war story about foreign direct investment (FDI) in India. In the 1970s India chucked out IBM and Coca-Cola in a fit of nationalist
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