2013 by Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com in partnership with Contents Sustainable Business Trends of 2013 The Index Introduction 2013 06 14 21 01: Natural Capital 09 16 24 02: Risk & Resilience 11 19 28 Where Impacts Happen 38 Natural Capital 41 Company Performance 44 03: Corporate Reporting 04: The Sharing Economy 05: Commerce Disclosure & Transparency 51 Corporate Leadership 57 More 06: M2M 07: Sustainable Apps 08:
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CHARLES MARTIN IN UGANDA: WHAT TO DO WHEN A MANAGER GOES NATIVE James Green‚ a vice president at U.S.-based Hydro Generation (HO)‚ .was pondering a specific question: Should he retain Charles Martin for the construction phase of a major dam project in the African nation of Uganda? (See Map 2.5 for the location of Uganda in Africa and of the dam project in Uganda.) Martin had already completed his assignment en the preliminary phase of the project‚ and Green couldn’t deny that Martin results had
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Information Systems Strategy Triangle Business Strategy Elements Organizational Strategy Elements Information Strategy Elements Ministry of Health governed the public health systems AID/HIV is the leading cause of death in Uganda Less than 10% of Ugandans have access to electricity 60% of population sought care from spiritual or herbal healers Fragmented Humanitarian aid was the primary source of health care Most healthcare facilities did not have access to computers
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Introduction Unilever‚ a multinational organisation‚ are geocentric in their approach to globalisation and have recently taken over a factory in China. This factory has had no previous relations with any international corporation and operates solely through a regiocentric style of management. Unilever wish to bring the Chinese factory into line with their current practices and to assist in the transition of the factory from a regiocentric to a geocentric approach a group of proficient managers will be selected
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Climate Change in Uganda: Understanding the implications and appraising the response Scoping Mission for DFID Uganda July 2008 S 0 INTERNATIONAL LTS International LTS International has been supporting sustainable development worldwide for 35 years. We offer dynamic‚ multi-disciplinary teams of experienced professionals to meet the bespoke requirements of the assignment‚ be it poverty reduction‚ commercial viability‚ improved equity and governance or any other facet of sustainable resource
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Term paper Title: “Pros and cons of polycentric staffing by Perlmutter (1968)” Scientific research and writing I Outline I. Outline 1 Introduction 1.1 Research problem 1.2 Research methodology 1.3 Way of investigation 2. Degrees of multinationality and how to measure them 1. General assumptions 2. The role of a manager in a multinational corporation 3 Global staffing 4. The EPRG concept 1. Ethnocentrism 2. Polycentrism
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losing resources to the developed countries through unequal exchange‚ brain drain”. Uganda has witnessed many civil wars‚ this include; military coups like the 1971 by Amin against Obote‚ economic cranks like the 1972 economic war‚ clan and tribal conflicts among others. All these are the insight factors to the continuous underdevelopment of Uganda. In inert shell‚ most Africans countries are LDCs including Uganda and are underdeveloped due to internal and external factors which are associated with
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information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rlae20 Hollywood in Uganda: local appropriation of trans-national Englishlanguage movies Stella Achen & George Ladaah Openjuru a a a Department of Adult and Community Education‚ College of Education and External Studies‚ Makerere University‚ Kampala‚ Uganda Version of record first published: 25 Jun 2012 To cite this article: Stella Achen & George Ladaah Openjuru (2012): Hollywood in Uganda: local appropriation of trans-national English-language movies
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Majority of the children are robbed of their childhood. Everyone has heard about the problems in Africa mainly children dying of lack of food and clean water causing malnutriton. After researching more about what caught my eye was the problem in Uganda that has been going on for about twentyfive years and still happening today. It’s a very tragic and almost unbelievable story that this would happen in the lives of young children. Imagine the little kids you see on the playground at your nearby
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Summary of the case The Charles Martin in Uganda story shows how companies can often be at adds with a manager who is managing operations in a distant land. The values and normal tendencies of a company can sometimes be interpreted much differently by the manager on the ground. In this example‚ we will look at how Charles Martin dealt with cultural differences of Uganda and the U.S.-based Hydro Generation (HG) Company. On the surface‚ the diverse culture could be seen as a turn off to foreign companies
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