George Haraktsis February 2nd‚ 2015 Google in China Introduction Since the statement made by Google‚ on January 12th‚ regarding the cyber-attacks it has been no secret that world’s major search engine has faced its fair share of setbacks in China. In 2006 Google launched the Chinese search engine Google.cn in hopes of un-tapping the 105 million growing Chinese internet users that existed at the end of 2005. However‚ as the Chinese government’s censorship of and policies to the Internet have
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2.0 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) The corporate social responsibility is an activity where it has been involved by almost all of the company in the world. However‚ normally it would be the big companies which will engage more in these corporate responsibility activities. According to Lord Holme and Richard Watts (2010)‚ Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of
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Executive Summary Google is a very profitable organization that operates on the concept of innovation. Its core business from web search and advertising has provided continuous streams of revenue and profits‚ and its reputation as the market leader has built a strong interest in the organization from both the investor as well as the user community. The key challenge being faced by Google at this point is that it should find ways of growing sustainably‚ and expand in a way that it can effectively
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paid listings and related paid listings‚ which gave Google an advantage in selling advertising. Sergey Brin‚ Larry Page‚ and Eric Schmidt were the management triangle that brought Google to the lead of the web search industry. Their powerful business sense‚ groundbreaking ideas‚ and engineering and business experience have made Google the dominant company that it is today. They were able to enter the market and successfully achieve a well thought-out business strategy. In my opinion‚ they did everything
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Case Study: Google in China Google issued a statement mentioning the attacks across the Internet generated from China and declaring its unwillingness to censor search results any more and indicating its decision of exiting China. Several months later‚ the company moved from Beijing to Hong Kong‚ out of Mainland China‚ and still has provided services to users in Mainland China‚ but also has faced many difficulties. This case is very typical and meaningful for foreign companies‚ which have willingness
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Google in China Q1: What philosophical principles did Google’s managers adopt when deciding that the benefits of operating in China outweighed the costs. Google’s managers made the decision to operate in China because of vast profit assumptions and predictions. Therefore they had to adopt to the local Chinese habits and the governments restraints and regulations. But to which philosophical approach does this behavior refers to? Maybe on the first sight it seems to be either the Cultural Relativism
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Assignment 1: Apple Inc. - Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies Amber Craggette Instructor: Dr. Jean Fonkoua BUS508- Contemporary Business 07/19/2014 Apples ethics and social responsibility In researching the Apple Company’s Social (Supplier) and ethical responsibilities I found that their initiatives are geared toward Empowering Workers‚ Labor & Human Rights‚ Health & Safety‚ Environment and Accountability. I think their approach is interesting but I feel that a large company
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communications standpoint? Google entered China in 2006 with high hopes of taking over the Chinese internet market. In order to become a major player for internet search engines in China‚ however‚ they had buckled and filtered search results according to the Chinese government. When Google.cn was launched‚ a loud public outcry over its giving in to the Chinese government on censoring and filtering search engine results‚ the company faced a communications crisis. Since Google had always been known for
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Business Research Report Ethics & Social Responsibility in Business Presented to: Chief Executive Officer Assessment Code: RWT1 Student Name: Valeria Herrera Student ID: 00217130 Date: May 1st 2012 Mentor Name: Evan Jackson Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Research Findings 5 The Company’s Reputation 5 The Relationship with Employees‚ Investors and Customers……………...…………….………………6 Efficiency…………….……………………………………………..……………………………………7 Recommendations 8 Conclusion
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Introduction In order to maintain social order and stability‚ people create a lot of rules to conduct the people’s behavior. A part of these rules of conduct is included in the scope of the law‚ which needs the coercive power of the country to protect its implementation. The other part belongs to the moral category‚ and it needs to rely on self-reflection and intervention of public opinion which can assurance its implementation. The business ethics is a part of commerce responsibility‚ and it is also a part
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