Nokia: Business Interests vs German Pressures Nokia is the largest mobile handset maker in the world with a 40% market share. The mobile handset industry is marked by declining prices and depressed margins making companies look at low-cost production options. Nokia‚ to be more competitive‚ is relocating its German plant to Romania where the wages are 10 times lower. This abrupt announcement however stirs a wave of resentment with employees‚ trade unions‚ politicians and business leaders who condemned
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Nokia (B): Business Interests vs German Pressures Synopsis of the Case Study Nokia is the world’s largest mobile handset maker commanding a 40% share of the global market. The telecom industry of late has seen increased competition and declining margins. The result is that more and more firms are outsourcing and offshoring. Nokia too has been moving its production to low-cost countries and already has manufacturing facilities in China‚ India and Brazil. The company’s 11 th plant is in Romania
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The beginning of Nokia goes back to the year 1865 with the establishment of a forestry industry enterprise in South-Western Finland by mining engineer Fredrick Idestam. While in the year 1898‚ the Finnish Rubber Works Ltd was found‚ and in 1912‚ Finnish Cable Works began operations. Gradually‚ the ownership of this two companies and Nokia began to shift into hands of just a few owners. Finally‚ these three companies were merged to form Nokia Corporation in 1967. Nokia Corporation engages in the
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many twists and turns of the world history and industrialization. After the 1966-67 mergers‚ Nokia defined its main businesses to be rubber‚ cable‚ forestry industry‚ electricity generation and electronics. 20 years on‚ the company had added chemicals‚ floor coverings and TV sets to the aforementioned businesses. The electronics business started in the 60s when the Finnish Cable Works expanded its business to the sales and manufacture of computers. The businesses of the Electronics Department established
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Nokia – The Success Enablers From the standpoint of innovation policy and supporting institutions the success of Nokia could be related to the Nordic decision to create the common standard Nordic Mobile Telephony (NMT). This provided Nokia with a common Nordic market of 20 million techno savvy customers before anywhere else in the world. And it provided a perfect platform for ‘infant industry development’ . When Nokia had grown sufficiently large on the back of this market it was blessed by
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that bears her name in 1963‚ after 25 years of direct selling for other companies‚ beginning in the late 1930s. The business environment is the combination of social‚legal‚economic‚physical and political factors that affect business activities.We focus on three types of business pressure that organizations face which is market ‚technology and societal pressures. -Market pressure are generated by the global economy and strong competiton ‚the changing nature of the workforce and powerful customers
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German BUsiness Etiquette German Appearance Business dress in Germany is very conservative. Businessmen wear dark suits; solid‚ conservative ties‚ and white shirts. Women also dress conservatively‚ in dark suits and white blouses. Chewing gum while talking to someone is considered rude. Do not wear showy jewelry or accessories. Be on time or call if you are going to be more than 15 minutes late and offer an explanation‚ because punctuality is taken extremely seriously. It is extremely
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when they become pregnant and there is no freedom of association. This research focuses on Nokia and aims to find out whether the conclusions of the SOMO report and the publicity that followed afterwards had any harmful effects for the reputation of Nokia among consumers in The Netherlands. The target groups of this research are consumers and potential consumers of Nokia between the age of 18 and 65. Nokia is the largest supplier of a wide range of mobile phones and its goal is to have the best quality
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German culture is diverse and complex. One way to evalutate the culture is to use Geert Hofstede’s five dimensions which helps to illustrate values that are embedded into the German people and how behavior manifests itself in a work related context. The German culture can be described as having a low power distance as they strongly expect power to be distributed equally. This is evident by the solid co-determination rights held for employees. Germans also demonstrate a high degree of uncertainty
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dominating the global market‚ Nokia is finally challenging its status quo. This day saw Nokia Music Store opening its door to music lovers in Australia – the eighth media store after Britain‚ Ireland‚ Germany‚ Italy‚ Finland‚ Netherlands and Singapore. The Nokia Music Store contains millions of tracks from both global and local artists and users will be able to download songs to their computer supported by Windows XP or Vistas PC and transfer them to their mobile phones be it Nokia or other brands. Songs
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