Doing Business in Colombia | Colombian Social and Business Culture A Colombian Culture Overview Fact File o o o o o o o Official name – Republic of Colombia Population – 45‚644‚023* Official Languages – Spanish Currency – Colombian peso (COP) Capital city – Bogotá GDP – purchasing power parity $399.4 billion* GDP Per Capita – purchasing power parity $8‚900 * Overview Colombia is a country with a unique culture influenced by a fusion of its indigenous Indian‚ Spanish and African
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Introduction The world today is a smaller place than it has ever been‚ thanks to the rapid and ongoing development of the global economy; we have become a borderless and cyber-connected community (Hofstede 2001; Kottak 2008; Mead‚ 2009). This has resulted in greater links and more and more interchanges between different nationalities. The ease at which we can physically communicate and travel has allowed for the free movement of goods and services across borders increasing trade and investment in
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Colombia By: Elijah Sharp Introduction Colombia is a country located in South America. It is the only country in South america to have a coastline to both the Pacific ocean and the Caribbean sea. Did you know that colombia is the third largest producer of coffee. With that being said farming coffee also produces a large number of jobs for Colombians. Colombia is also one of the largest miners of emeralds. The area Colombia is mostly covered with rainforest‚ but also
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surprisingly high. Why this should be so‚ and what companies are reported as doing about it in the quest to optimise performance‚ warrants examination. Learning objectives After studying this module‚ you should: • be able to understand the dimensions of expatriate assignment success and failure‚ and their consequences for expatriate selection • be able to use this knowledge as a basis for understanding expatriate selection Selecting the expatriate On the whole‚ the replacement of expatriates
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Colombia’s Peace Treaty with guerilla group‚ FARC Since 1964‚ Colombia has been in war against the largest guerilla group called The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia‚ also known as FARC. The rebel group was created by Marxists to fight for the justification of the poor‚ considering only the rich minority owns the majority of the land in Colombia. With the opinion that violence will bring more success to carry out their plan for a change in the government‚ the FARC has been committing many crimes
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population uses cell phone network. Colombia is the fourth largest country in South America‚ almost twice the size of Texas. The official language is
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foreign investment and promote the exportations. In order to boost the image of COLOMBIA‚ in 2007 the Ministry of Tourism and International Affairs developed a brand called COLOMBIA IS PASSION. After a briefly SWOT analysis‚ strengths as people‚ culture‚ natural resources and history‚ were established as well as the weaknesses‚ consequences from the scourge of violence and Illegal drug trade. Nevertheless Colombia has a great opportunity through brand strategy in order to wipe off the threat
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Columbia is a very very beautiful country. It has lots of cities and has very beautiful landscapes. Colombia is the only South American country with coastlines on both the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Three mighty north-south Andean cordilleras separate the western coastal lowlands from the almost empty eastern jungles‚ with 54 percent of Colombia’s land but only 3 percent of the people. Most Colombians are of mixed ethnicity about 20 percent European. Native Indians‚ one percent of the population
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internationally? The drug trafficking problem focused on Cocaine is mainly limited to three countries‚ Colombia‚ Peru and Bolivia. These three countries are the main producers and traders when it comes to the Coca leaf and Cocaine. They all face problems created by the war on drugs centered on Cocaine. In Peru and Bolivia they face cultural problems when it comes to eradicating the Cocaine trade while in Colombia they face a history of violence and guerrilla groups. There are various projected solutions to
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Analysis and Comparison of Iranian and American Management; The Cultural Dimensions and Values This report is aimed to represent a brief description of the Iranian management values today and compare the results with a developed country like Unites State. First it will give a description of some of the characteristics of Iran management and culture‚ then it is tried to categorize these characteristic base on Hofstede ’s Dimensions (1980) (power distance‚ avoiding uncertainty‚ masculinity/femininity
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