restructure a €1.2 billion business‚ leading to a profit increase of over 50% on a quarterly basis. The outstanding career success he had enjoyed over the last decade was largely built on his strong interpersonal skills and his ability to mobilise large groups of employees. Where could this criticism be coming from? Chalon knew he had to better understand this situation and to make some changes. “I need to address this before things get out of control and really damage the business‚” he thought. He was
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Business Ethics and Globalization Lindsey Herrera XMGT 216 December 3‚ 2010 Carolyn Fuentes Business Ethics and Globalization There are many ethical issues one can find when studying the policy of international trade and globalization. The main ethical difficulty we find is the cultural ethics involved in business across the globe. The way we do business is not always the way others conduct business in their country. Does that mean that our way is necessarily the right way? I think this
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Journal of Business Ethics (2007) 75:273–284 DOI 10.1007/s10551-006-9252-9 Ó Springer 2007 Cultural Values and International Differences Bert Scholtens Lammertjan Dam in Business Ethics ABSTRACT. We analyze ethical policies of firms in industrialized countries and try to find out whether culture is a factor that plays a significant role in explaining country differences. We look into the firm’s human rights policy‚ its governance of bribery and corruption‚ and the comprehensiveness
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Article Review Theory of the Business In an organization “what to do”’ is becoming a challenge for managers; a company enjoying long term success may one day find itself in a crisis. It also occurs outside international businesses such as in labour unions‚ hospitals etc. The root cause for a crisis is - not that things are being done poorly‚ but wrong things are being done. There are also cases where the right thing is done – but fruitlessly. These are the assumptions that shape any organisation’s
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Management a true profession is an interesting article. It is written by two authors‚ Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria. Rakesh Khurana is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School in Boston while Nitin Nohria is also a professor of business administration and senior associate dean and director of faculty development at Harvard Business School. Both authors have written informative books on the subject of business. The purpose of this article is about revolutionizing the training
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The impact of communicating across cross culture at MegaMart Shana-kaye Mills 18090222 Sherica Smith 11090066 Kimberly Miller 18100317 Dave McKenzie Yanique Clarke 60090206 Sean Taylor 18085307 Dave Bartley 18110574 NORTHERN CARIBBEAN UNIVERSITY Dr. Sashin Pilli Author Note Research conducted by Shana-Kaye Mills‚ Kimberly Miller‚ Dave McKenzie‚ Yanique Clarke‚ Sean Taylor‚ Sherica Smith and Dave Bartley‚ College of Business and Hospitality Management
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University of Phoenix Material Article Review Format Guide MEMORANDUM UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX DATE: 1/12/13 TO: Mark Rorem FROM: RE: E-Business Makes Protection Of Intellectual Property More Critical‚ Complex Than Ever ARTICLE SYNOPSIS In this article‚ it discusses first the fact that many companies now are feeling the need to switch over to an e-business. With switching to the e-business‚ it then goes over the fact that protecting intellectual property is a
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Article Review ARTICLE SYNOPSIS The article focused on patents in e-business and intellectual property. Patents are important when running an e-business. This is so because it is on an open market and the competition may be from any location. E-business should be aware that patents might not automatically cover new invention. Before opening an e-business potential owners should research e-business patent laws (Mello‚ 2002). They should be aware of domestic
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Culture‚ customs and business ethics in Japan Differences between cultures we often see and compare in social behaviour‚ we are already aware and accept that cultural diversity is huge and heavy. Different ideas of time‚ space‚ life after death‚ nature and reality of isolated society will have little impact on international business‚ but at home there are more people like us‚ we appear to have similar concepts and values‚ but is it so ? Let us take for example Europeans we live
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CHAPTER 1 Consumer Behavior Across Cultures W hen the Canadian media philosopher Marshall McLuhan coined the concept of the global 1 village‚ he was referring to Plato’s definition of the proper size for a city—the number of people who could hear the voice of the public speaker. By the global village‚ McLuhan meant that the new electric media of his time‚ such as telephone and television‚ abolished the spatial dimension. By means of electricity‚ people everywhere could resume person-to-person
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