European Management Journal (2013) 31‚ 124– 136 journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/emj Diversity attitudes and group knowledge processing in multicultural organizations Jakob Lauring‚ Jan Selmer * Business and Social Sciences‚ Aarhus University‚ Denmark KEYWORDS Openness to diversity; Diversity attitudes; Knowledge sharing; Multicultural organizations; Cultural diversity; Groups; Linguistic diversity; Language diversity Summary The ability to locate‚ share‚ and use knowledge
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Introduction By looking at today’s market it is noticeable that innovation and fast reaction on the market changes is one of the key-components for success. During our research we have realized that even the fastest-growing company in the world – Google – is having difficulities‚ therefore we decided to look into the problems of the organization and propose some changes that would protect the company to be “too big and too slow”. As our main structure the ABCDE strategic model has been used in
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PIB Case Discussion Google in Asia 1.What resources and capabilities does Naver have that Google does not? - Those two companies have same purpose and function. But in detail‚ Google didn’t catch up Koreans mind. Google prefer simple design with fast searching system for people whose don’t have fast internet or fast internet devices. But in Korean market‚ almost every houses are using super fast internet with chip price. And even countryside
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specialise in search engine with online advertising. It falls under the strategic group category of focused differentiator. External Analysis 1 Porter’s five forces 1 Bargaining Power of Suppliers The buying power of the suppliers is weak as Google can easily find alternative suppliers for their equipment like servers & data centres. 2 Bargaining Power of Buyers The buying power of the buyers is strong as they have low switching cost to other rivals or to other forms of advertising like
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practice and job 5 2.3 Google’s Leadership approach 7 3. Conclusion 9 References 10 Executive Summary The first part of the report will investigate some of the most relevant motivational and perceptual theories‚ which will be applied to Google case in order to understand how the company achieved its incredible success. It will be also interesting comparing the Google’s case study with another case to see how organisational behaviour theories are applied differently depending on the situation
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decision by Google to buy Motorola. What economic concepts would support this investment and in your opinion why might the purchase of Motorola be anti-competitive? “We are on a turning-point in the world of personal technology. For around 30 years PCs in various forms have been people’s main computing devices. Now the rise of smartphones and tablet computers threatens to erode the PC’s dominance‚ prompting talk that a “post-PC” era is finally dawning.” (Miles‚ 2011) On August 15 Google announced a
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1. Introduction 2.1 Background of company Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation focused on Internet-based products and services. Google business is around the key areas: search‚ advertising‚ operating systems and platform‚ enterprise and hardware products from Motorola business. However the main source of the company ’s revenues is from Adwords. Google’s revenues rose to a record-breaking high of $14.42 billion‚ controlled by record regional revenues no matter where you look
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Google recently managed to developed a technology that is hands free and head mounted smart devices that can be worn by users "wearable computing".Google Glasses will look like a pair of normal eyeglasses‚ but the lens of the glasses will be an interactive‚ smartphone-like display.It is also able to connect to WiFi and Bluetooth. The glass will be using Apple’s iOS. It is expected to come out late in 2013 and could be available by these prices. It is available in 2 versions : Explorer Version -
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Exam case “Keeping Google “Googley” Assignment questions: 1. Evaluate Google’ organizational structure. What is its type? How do you think‚ does this structure fit Google’ organizational strategy? Provide your answer with arguments. Do you think that some improvements of organizational structure are needed? Why? What kind of changes should be done to for this structure to be more effective? Based on the read case I would say that Google utilizes matrix form of organizational
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Current Situation Google is famous for many things that they communicate within the company. Google concentrates on an easy to use‚ effective system allowing them to strive for improvement in the expansion technology area. Google allows users to access searches from anywhere with their mobile platform called Android. Google makes money from advertising without the vast majority of users even knowing they are doing it. This can be a positive and a negative. SWOT Analysis Strengths
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