Relationship between strategic planning and SME success: Empirical evidence from Thailand
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
The role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is becoming increasingly prominent throughout the world. Thailand is no exception. SMEs in Thailand represent over 90 percent of the total number of entrepreneurs in nearly all business sectors, and employ over 60 percent of the labor force....
Corporate venturing as a major corporate strategic initiative
Essay - 15 pages - Business strategy
This paper reviews selected literature on internal corporate venturing in order to help build a venture management framework for scholars as well as managers. It includes a discussion of the various definitions authors have proposed, corporate venturing success drivers, and the different internal...
Development and performance of the purchasing function within the pharmaceutical industry
Dissertation - 34 pages - Purchasing & supply chain
Since its introduction, the Purchasing function faced major changes and is taking on a more strategic role in many organisations. It was also shown that strategic purchasing leads to positive savings performance. Showing that the purchasing function is at an equal level of importance with other...
Analysis of assets for the SME sector
Thesis - 29 pages - Finance
The Small and Medium Enterprise Group (SMEG) segment is one of the highest contributors to the financial wealth of the THE Bank, and in the context of an aggressively expanding Commercial Bank focusing on consumer credit, it assumes great significance in overcoming the three main challenges that...
Soft capitalism as related to therapeutic modes of work
Essay - 71 pages - Services marketing
The global village concept has fuelled soft capitalism and the rise of the ethos in this field within organizations. Let us first understand the basis of globalization. While not so different from traditional villages in its desire to engage in a free exchange of ideas, the...
Mahathir's legacy and the stability of Malaysia
Thesis - 7 pages - Economy general
Nowadays, Malaysia is known as a model of rapid development. Indeed, in the middle of the twentieth century, the economy of this country is agriculture-oriented and nothing hints any economic boom to come such as the one which occurs a few years later. The economic growth starts to soar as soon...
To what extent does e-commerce favour market facilitation over consumer objectives?
Essay - 8 pages - Services marketing
Traditional business models cite “location, location, location” as the critical factor for commercial success, however the hallmark of e-commerce is that issues of location in the physical sense are not relevant . As such, the concept of “location” has created an internal...
The Lead User Method: A solution to improve new product success in rapidly changing markets?
Dissertation - 77 pages - Services marketing
Innovation, a crucial dilemma to be successful. Innovating is crucial for a company in order to satisfy its customers ‘expectations and to cope with the competition in a market place which is everyday more and more challenging. However, coping with the competition doesn't mean offering...
Cultural differences in management
Essay - 31 pages - Management
As we have come to a world of economic globalization, more and more companies are working in an international approach. Globalization incites a multitude of situations and intercultural relations. The company is therefore faced with an assimilation of a lot of knowledge on the countries where it...
Study of rural marketing in the present scenario in India
Market study - 53 pages - Services marketing
While we all accept that the heart of India lives in its villages and the Indian rural market with its vast size and demand base offers great opportunities to marketers, we tend to conclude that the purse does not stay with them. Nothing can be far from truth. Rural marketing involves addressing...
Impact of FDI on the industrial development in India
Tutorials/exercises - 39 pages - Economy general
Foreign direct investments (FDI) are investment of foreign assets into domestic structures, equipments and organization. FDI reflects the objectives of obtaining a lasting interest by a resident entity in one economy (Direct Investor) in entity resident in an economy other than that of the...
Anita Roddick, entrepreneur, Body shop
Essay - 14 pages - Business strategy
The selection of a successful entrepreneur is easy. Corporate newspapers represent a huge list of names of founders or CEO's leading large companies and making high profits. It was interesting to identify what can be called an "atypical? entrepreneur. Atypical entrepreneur is someone who...
Evaluation of Capital Gains Tax Proposals for 2008/09 in UK
Essay - 3 pages - Finance
Capital Gains tax (CGT) has been much reformed in history because it is a very complex tax. CGT is "a tax on the increase in the value of an asset between its acquisition and its disposal" (IFS). Chancellor Alistair Darling introduced his Pre-Budget Reporting on 9 October 2007 which showed many...
A&W Root Beer in the United Kingdom's Market
Market study - 26 pages - Services marketing
Through this assignment we will develop a marketing plan that will able A&W, the US Root Beer drink brand to enter the United Kingdom market. In fact, during the development, we will as a first step analyzing the brand in order to position the brand in its current market, and have a better idea...
Recycling in South Africa
Thesis - 16 pages - Ecology & environment
As part of my third year at the business school of Rennes in South Africa, I had the opportunity to do an international internship for a period of 10 weeks. This course's main objective was to test my ability to adapt. Indeed, during this internship, I had to adapt to a different culture, and...
Strategy and planning process in the Small Business and the Small & Middle Enterprises (SME) Sector - published: 14/12/2006
Business plan - 7 pages - Management
Business planning is perceived by both governments and business support infrastructure, such as the Business Links, to be an essential ingredient to the success of small businesses (Beaver, 2002, p88). Similarly, O'Gorman bases his idea on the fact that one approach to developing a successful...
The results of the "Lisbon agenda" - the attempt to make Europe the world's most successful knowledge-based economy - are generally thought to have been disappointing. What steps should be taken by the European Union, and by national governments
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
In March 2000, the Lisbon Strategy was launched to overcome a series of weaknesses in the European economy: long-term structural unemployment, a poor employment rate, and under-development of the service sector. In an often-quoted sentence, it has therefore assigned the EU “a new strategic...
Staying afloat: Income and poverty determinants for Southern Maine
Tutorials/exercises - 22 pages - Educational studies
In this study I will be looking at data from the Southern Maine subset within the 2000 United States Census. This sample includes a 5% random sampling of the residents of Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennedy, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, and York counties. The data that I will use comes from Integrated...
African American economic growth
Essay - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
African American community as far as the 1960s has maintained a rich tradition of philanthropy due to the challenges the community faced in the past decades. The resources that contributed to the philanthropic activities include the mutual aid organizations, churches, major political...
The Meiji restoration and the dawning of Japanese modernity
Essay - 9 pages - Modern history
The Meiji Ishin, or Meiji Restoration culminated in 1868 in the abolition of the feudal Tokugawa bakufu and made way for the modern, Westernized Japan. The mid nineteenth century was a time of vast development around the world, and Japan was falling behind the industrialized nation states of...
What do you consider to be the major differences between Adam Smith's and David Ricardo's theories of international trade?
Essay - 4 pages - Economy general
The basic concept underlying all international transactions is that foreign markets are extensions of domestic markets, in the sense that goods and services produced domestically, and whose quality is reflected in the strengths of the supply and demand curves, can also be sold internationally....
Conservative welfare states and the challenge of universal citizenship
Essay - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
When the newly unified Germany implemented in 1883 the first health insurance system, it paved the way for further moves towards extensive provision of public welfare for workers, but it also introduced a substantive change concerning the relationship between the state and the citizens. Basically...
The 'OneWorld' health model and the prospects for future development of therapeutics for infectious disease of the developing world
Thesis - 15 pages - Medical studies
Despite the vast improvements in health care and prevention of infectious diseases in the developed world, six out of ten deaths in the developing world can still be directly attributed to infectious disease. Diarrheal diseases, lower respiratory infections, malaria, measles, TB, and HIV/AIDS...
A study into the retail industry of India and China
Tutorials/exercises - 58 pages - Business strategy
Retailing is the final step in the distribution of merchandise - the last link in the Supply Chain - connecting the bulk producers of commodities to the final consumers. Retailing covers diverse products such as foot apparels, consumer goods, financial services and leisure. A retailer,...
The European employment strategy - published: 11/05/2009
Thesis - 21 pages - European union
The European Union is the most accomplished multinational organization in the world. Since it's beginning in 1950, with the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Union has been integrating more and more, becoming a unique. The European Union was at first, based on economic performances....
Maurice A. Bercof - The Art of Negotiating
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Maurice A. Bercoff is a Bachelor of Law, PhD in Economics and a Statistics graduate; and fluent in four languages. He developed his systematic approach to negotiations in Harvard, Wharton Business School and the Kennedy School of Government. He has more than thirty years of experience (in Europe...
E-banking and Canara Bank
Case study - 56 pages - Finance
The banking sector is the lifeline of any modern economy. It is one of the important financial pillars of the financial system, which plays a vital role in the success/failure of an economy. Banks are one of the oldest financial intermediaries in the financial system. They play an important role...
A study on export performance, challenges and prospects of IT industry in India
Tutorials/exercises - 32 pages - Economy general
My dissertation titled “A study on Export Performance, Challenges and Prospects of Information Technology Industry in India” mainly deals with exporting performance Information Technology industry in India. It also deals with various problems faced by the IT industry and also...
A study on the major wage theories and their relevance
Essay - 10 pages - Economy general
Wages are income derived from human labor. Salaries are similar to wages, but denote a more routine and constant payment on a time bound basis, as opposed to a work-bound payment association of wages. The term Wage and Salary encompass remuneration and fringe benefits sponsored by the employer,...
Hewlett-Packard's strategic audit
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
This is a comprehensive business policy and strategic management case study that includes the company, Hewlett-Packard's (www.hp.com), fiscal year-end (October 2007) financial statements, competitor information and more. The case time setting is the year 2008. Recommend a three-year...
