EADS : A cross cultural merger
Case study - 8 pages - Finance
Since the early 1980s, mergers and acquisitions have been developing in Europe and worldwide. After the dramatic increase in the number of mergers and acquisitions in the second half of the 1980s, the 1990s leaves its mark by rapid cross-border connections and increased significant value of...
Glaxo Smithkline : inter-cultural overview
Case study - 10 pages - Management
In today's markets, international trends represent a large part of exchanges. In most cases, companies act on an international level: they try to sell their products all over the world in order to find new opportunity markets. They expect to find competition-advantaged resource providers on...
Identifying the role played by an organization's culture on the leadership in reinventing an organization: Case study on JC Penny Inc
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Strategy according to For de Wit and Meyer (1998), is an intelligent treatment of the subject, strategy is any course of action for achieving an organizations purpose. (Strategic management 2004 Palgrave McMillan, Colin White, pg 5). Strategy exists at a number of levels in an organisation. There...
Analyzing the strategies of a transnational company in a host country- Case of Toyota Motor Corporation
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
To further illustrate the key points of international business management, this paper aims to demonstrate how to prepare the situational analysis for a transnational company by establishing Toyota Motor Corporation's business in United States, one of its host-country nations, as an example....
A study on the White Goods Corporates
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Business strategy
Nowadays, it is fashionable to use the word strategy. We hear people talk about defense strategies, business strategies for the game (be it cricket or chess), personal strategies, religious strategies and the like. The word strategy means several things to several people at different point of...
Debate and critique the relative importance of cultural differences and national business systems on the development of HRM. What are the implications of your conclusions for convergence and divergence? Use examples of HRM across the globe to illustrate y
Case study - 10 pages - Human resources
Over time, groups and civilizations have evolved differently; what can be seen as a perfectly normal conduct in one country for example is not necessarily the same in a country at the other side of the globe or even in for its neighbouring country. This is more visible today with globalization...
Disney, a Global Culture
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
In this case study, we will look at the way Walt Disney has developed its business worldwide, the subsequent local reactions, its success and failures and ultimately the relevant modifications essential for the company. We will analyze the Walt Disney business model, and its three international...
How does the organizational culture of General Electric affect organizational behavior?
Essay - 6 pages - Management
Competition among organizations in the same industry has promulgated the development of numerous strategies to facilitate the success of the organization. While some strategies focus on streamlining operations to reduce fixed costs of their strategies focused on the development of internal...
Experiencing Acquisition Through a Process of Culture Change in a Serbian Organization
Essay - 61 pages - Management
This study addresses the issue of culture, acquisition and change in Serbia. Specifically, the project focuses on a Serbian bank which has recently been taken over by a Greek bank and explores organisational culture in a Serbian bank. Culture can be an image created by its...
Critical Review the Development of Human Resource and Culture at Microsoft
Essay - 3 pages - Accounting
When Bill Gate started the Microsoft organization 3 decades ago, he did not envision the significant growth and prosperity that would take place in the organization. As a result, Gates founded his organization on basic principles of organizational development and human resource management that he...
Organizational Culture
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Organization in general exists because of its people and their interactions. These interactions are based on set of rules that social in nature and tend to influence the employees in their performance of organization related activities. Scholars assert that people with their sets of values...
Managing in a global context : How managers can overcome problems arising from cultural differences of employees?
Essay - 13 pages - Management
According to the United Nation Statistics in 2003, the globe constitutes of approximately 226 countries. All these nations have their own culture. this can be more or less similar from one country to another. However, it creates a multitude of differences between individuals that managers...
Corporate compliance report: Sarbanes-Oxley and the COSO initiative
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
With recent incidents of fraud and inside trading, the business world has gained renewed interest and emphasis on corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Organizations have taken more serious measures to establish enterprise risk management plans to avert, identify, and manage...
Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation
Essay - 7 pages - Services marketing
Blockbuster video is the undisputed king of the video-rental industry. The following comment made by Fran Bernstein of Merrill Lynch accurately describes Blockbuster's position. “Blockbuster stands alone in the video rental market in both size and ambition. One wonders where is the Burger...
How culture affects the style of management in Mexico?
Essay - 11 pages - Management
How to deal with our new intercultural world? Is it possible to act in the same way with everybody? Should we try to adapt to each country to be successful? What would it involve for companies if it's not done? All these questions are current issues in the globalisation world. To do business with...
The elements of culture and the impact on interpersonal relationships
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The article Communication and Shared Reality: Implications for the Psychological Foundations of Culture asserts that language in a culture comes from similar experiences that are individually experienced and then used to form beliefs as a group and those beliefs become the basis for...
Ikea culture
Essay - 6 pages - Services marketing
Power Distance Index (PDI) focuses on the degree of equality, or inequality, between people in the country's society. In Sweden, the low Power Distance ranking indicates that in this society, there is no difference between citizen's power and wealth. In these societies equality and...
Art and culture in branding
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
Art is the means used to produce an aesthetic creation. From the beginning of humanity, art has been the vehicle of thought, the vector of emotions. It is the graphic or sound understanding of the deep interior of our beings. Culture is defined as the data acquired and transmitted within a...
IKEA: Leadership and organizational culture
Case study - 9 pages - Management
It all began in 1943, when a young man Ingvar Kamprad, 17 years old, decided to create his own company, starting from a reward from his father for having finished his studies. This small company located at Agunnaryd in Sweden has now become a major performer in the world of organizations,...
Corporate training: A case study of McDonald's
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
The burger chain McDonald's was aware of this term even before it made its appearance. "Education is rooted in our culture," says Sabine Gekiere, HR manager of McDonald's Belgium branch. "It is part of our DNA". Now that it is possible to enhance the internal training system in a...
Establishment of an H&M store in Morocco: Inter-cultural variables and organization
Thesis - 16 pages - Management
Intercultural management aims to make us work and reflect on the well defined cultural differences between people involved in the inner workings of the enterprise. Indeed, the cultural differences encountered when setting up a company in a foreign country should not cause problems. On the...
Evaluating the organization culture at Barclays bank Case Analysis
Case study - 2 pages - Finance
Barclays bank PLC lists as the leading banking institutions in the banking and financial industry. The bank acknowledges organization culture as a leading strategy to accomplishing the bank's ultimate goals and objectives. Bob Diamond defined organization culture as how one acts...
Cross-cultural management
Essay - 8 pages - Management
In times of Globalization the role of foreign countries is more and more increasing. To be more competitive in the global market it is necessary to research international markets i.e. in order to increase growth opportunities, to reduce costs for production and distribution or to find new sales...
Developing a cross-cultural training program for L'Oreal's employees at the headquarters in Paris
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
In the evolving world of interconnected societies and culturally globalized world economy, firms are developing outside the constraints of a particular national setting. The main aim of this training programme is to understand and improve the interaction of co-workers from different countries and...
SOPA's effect on the online culture
Case study - 26 pages - Business strategy
Slashdot.org was founded in 1997 by Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda, and is now owned by Geeknet, Inc. Numerous editors and coders run the site. Users can submit a news story through the use of a web submission form, where it will be moderated and edited for proper grammar and spelling. Users...
Cultural diversity is a source of competitive advantage. Discuss
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
« To succeed internationally, we need to understand the cultures of the world; and we have all the cultures of the world represented right here - a tremendous competitive advantage. » ? Ernest Thompson, Proctor and Gamble Nowadays, globalisation, which is a phenomenon mainly...
Cultural differences in corporal punishment in children, comparing different countries with the United States
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Committing wrongdoings is tantamount to punishment, in these cases; adults tend to do corporal punishment as their way of disciplining their children. As long as children are perceived of doing something unacceptable, adults has the liberty to do corporal punishment, also known as physical...
Corporate entrepreneurship as a winning strategy
Essay - 7 pages - Business strategy
To survive and to enable continued growth in today's fast changing environment, large corporations need to continually renew themselves through new products and new businesses. In some instances this involves dealing with advanced technology. To illustrate this adaptation, I chose as an example...
Corporations on Steroids: Business in 21st Century
Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy
Corporations have become a centerpiece of American culture, however lately it seems as though these institutions have gained remarkable recognition, wealth, and most importantly, power. This power is often taken for granted and is turned into greed and corruption in the blink of an eye....
A research study on corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Management
The aim of this research proposal is to gather information about the strategies and initiatives taken by ASDA with respect to corporate social responsibility towards workforce, community, environment which can be emulated by other retailers. The purpose of this research is to investigate...
