CHAPTER 1 – RESEARCH IN BUSINESS Why Study Business Research? Business research provides information to guide business decisions. Business research plays an important role in an environment that emphasizes measurement. Return on investment (ROI) is the calculation of the financial return for all business expenditures and it is emphasized more now than ever before. Business research expenditures are increasingly scrutinized for their contribution to ROMI. Research Should Reduce Risk The
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The Newspaper Industry is one of the oldest and largest‚ most widely-known media industry in existence. “More than 1 out of 3 people in the United States reads a newspaper everyday” (Vivian 78). When you think of someone reading a newspaper‚ we often think of someone who’s older‚ sitting in a chair with a cup of coffee and who doesn’t really know much or endulge themselves in the fast-paced world today‚ like with television or newer technology‚ basically‚ a grandpa. However‚ what we can easily be
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advertisement) affect the sales outcomes and how the effects take place. Prior research has predicted that feature advertisements lead to behavioral outcomes through their effect on consumers’ attention. Building on this idea‚ the authors propose a Bayesian statistical model to study how feature ad characteristics affect sales of the featured products and the mediating role of attention in these relationships. They use data from eye-tracking tests of feature advertisements‚ aggregated and matched with
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QUESTION 2: BUSINESS ETHIC IS AN OXYMORON? INTRODUCTION When car manufacturers produce cars due to their customers need cars‚ it damages the environment and became a causing factor of global warming. For the society‚ is it an ethical behavior? The organization itself think this behavior is ethical because manufacturers do the ’right’ thing which is increasing profit for the corporation and meet the needs of their customers‚ others will regard it as an ethical problem because it destroys the living
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“The stated goals of the profession of nursing are demonstrably ethical: to protect the patient from harm‚ to provide care that prevents complications‚ and to maintain a healing psychological environment for patients and families (Corley‚ 2002).” The nursing staffing issues posed upon nurses today can create a state of moral distress. Moral distress is common “when there are insufficient numbers of staff‚ inadequately trained staff‚ and organizational policies and procedures that make it difficult
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Music Business Journal Analysis The Music Business Journal is an online journal based in the United Kingdom. The two editors‚ JoJo Gould and Jonathan Little‚ are both lecturers‚ researchers‚ and writers in the music industry. When they saw that the music industry was underdeveloped in academic terms‚ the two founded the Music Business Journal to "facilitate the sharing of information and knowledge across a range of music industry activities." Consultants for the journal come from a wide array
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“The more one knows ethics‚ the more it is used and the more useful it becomes”-Plato‚ The quote by Plato is a reminder on just how important ethics is and how important it is to educate yourself on proper ethical practices. In the following paper I would like to look at the topic of global business ethics. Recent studies in business ethics have shown both remarkable similarities and differences across cultures with respect to attitudes toward questionable business practices. First I would like to
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Kent has to deal with some ethical and possibly legal issues in the marketing of his game “Lucky”. Ethically he has to figure out if it is acceptable to market a game that focuses on nudity‚ violence‚ and gambling. As far as legal issues‚ is it legal to market these things in foreign countries and even online. If they can market this game in other countries they will have to change portions of the game for each of the countries that Brad has looked into targeting. Kent has basically two options
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Samuel Halley 10/16/2012 ACCT 2110 Wal-Mart and Ethics The article was acquired from http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2999‚ titled Everyone’s Problem: Looking Beyond the Wal-Mart Bribery Case. This is article’s purpose is to show how common bribing of public officials is using Wal-Mart’s case as an example. Wal-Mart is still having issues building up their ethical perception to the public. They had many shareholders investing in Mexico and these shareholders wanted answers
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“What is Business Ethics?” Essay Posted on July 5‚ 2012 1 Introduction Dated back to Code of Hammurabi some 4‚000 years ago‚ business ethics is a social science‚ whose main aim is to define and examine the responsibilities of businesses and their agents as a part of the general moral environment of a given society. The products of this field of research are sets of rules and codes of conducts‚ which serve as a means of protection from the possible infringements of moral codes as a result
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