The Fortunes of War: The protection given to aid workers under International Humanitarian Law Cian Moran 07304293 Independent Research Project for NUI Galway Supervisor: Professor Ray Murphy Highly commended by the judging panel in the Undergraduate Awards 2012 (Law) "We ’d like to help you." the consul said "But there ’s nothing we can do Well‚ you knew the risks when you took the job After all you ’re not a fool” Beirut Moon by the Stiff Little Fingers (1991) Introduction Armed
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Impact of Outsourcing Logistics Levels on Logistics Service Performance Mr. Zaryab Sheikh (Corresponding Author) Email: justzaryab@gmail.com Ms. Shafaq Rana Email: shafaq_rana@hotmail.com Mr. Samiullah Email: sami.mgt@gmail.com Ms. Sadia Umar Email: sadiaumar@ciitlahore.edu.pk Address: Department of Management Sciences‚ COMSATS Institute of Information Technology‚ Lahore‚ Pakistan ABSTRACT The contemporary dynamic business environment is characterized by the short life span of the products due
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The book Offshore Outsourcing by Robinson & Kalakota (2004) defines offshore outsourcing as ‘the delegation of administration‚ engineering‚ research‚ development‚ or technical support processes to a third-party vendor in a lower-cost location’. Among the examples used in this book‚ the best is that of the San Francisco–based firm Embarcadero Technologies‚ which is a leading provider of database and application lifecycle-management solutions in the USA. Embarcadero relies on Aztec Software‚ another
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Outsourcing and offshoring Then I’d like to talk about offshoring. Offshoring is a type of outsourcing. Offshoring simply means having the outsourced business functions done in another country. Frequently‚ work is offshored in order to reduce labor expenses. Other times‚ the reasons for offshoring are strategic -- to enter new markets‚ to tap talent currently unavailable domestically or to overcome regulations that prevent specific activities domestically. The term is in use in several distinct
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Ford Motor Company and its Outsourcing Company Overview: Ford Motor Company‚ a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn‚ Michigan‚ manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. It is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. The Company has about 198‚000 employees and 90 plants worldwide with the automotive brands include Ford and Lincoln. The Company also provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. The revenue of the company is $136
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MAXIS BERHAD COMPANY PROFILE Maxis Berhad‚ with its consolidated subsidiaries (together‚ ’Maxis ’)‚ is the leading mobile communications service provider in Malaysia with over 11.4 million mobile subscribers as of 30 June 2009. Maxis was granted licences to operate a nationwide GSM900 mobile network‚ a domestic fixed network and an international gateway in 1993. It commenced its mobile operations in August 1995 and launched its fixed line and international gateway operations in early 1996. Since
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CLAIRE That’s definitely something you would say. (Chuckles) I mean‚ you could do that here without having to make me spend the extra thousand dollars you know. JACK (Faint sarcasm) I mean I could‚ but staying indoors in a different state is radically different. CLAIRE (Says sarcastically and laughs) How? Please enlighten me. I love you to death‚ but sometimes I don’t understand how I raised you. JACK Ugh. I don’t know. Just being somewhere that isn’t here is better. It’s not that I don’t like
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parts to other company. Outsourcing was first carried out between companies in the same country. With the growth of economy and technologies‚ companies have to start to outsource the jobs to other companies from the other countries‚ such as China and India. That is called as offshore outsourcing. However‚ there are a number of problems with offshore outsourcing‚ such as risk of sharing data. Should the companies practice offshore outsourcing as a business strategy? Offshore outsourcing can actually
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Title: Outsourcing Objective: Outsourcing is also used if a certain company or individual has the inability to perform a specific task and get the result they want. These company uses outsourcing to look for an individual or a company who could provide better results than if they were to do the same task. The cost may be slightly higher but the results are better. Outsourcing therefore has two primary objectives: 1. To get labor at reduced cost but get the same or slightly better results
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not want to use its internal resources to build or operate information systems‚ it can outsource the work to an external organization that specializes in providing these services” (p. 505). Many companies utilize offshore outsourcing to cut costs. “Based on this misconception‚ many companies have explored the opportunities in emerging countries‚ where inexpensive skilled labor might give rise to cost savings and productivity.” (Modarress & Ansari‚ 2007‚ p.165) Offshore Outsourcing Ethical Dilemmas
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