Perceived service value: examples of Air France (French Airline Company), Xbox live service on X-Box 360 (American video game company) and Hotel SPA Dr. Irena Eris (Polish luxury leisure centre)
Essay - 4 pages - Services marketing
In this paper, we will examine the difference in perceived service value. The perception of the customer differs from one service to another and this difference is dependent on many factors. This paper will take the example of three service companies: Air France (French Airline Company),...
Call centers in France
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
Call centers are platforms for managing a large number of incoming and outgoing phone calls through the telephone, either using an operator or through an automated system. The call center may be constituted by an undertaking for its own needs, but it is most often operated by professionals whose...
Strategies France must implement to stay a leader in the global wine market
Thesis - 3 pages - Economy general
Answers to a Questionnaire' is a short story which was written by James Graham Ballard, and published for the first time in the English literary magazine 'Ambit', in 1985. Ballard's style of writing is highly important to understand his works, he is a member of the 'New...
The relationship between taxation and accounting in France
Course material - 4 pages - Accounting
The relationship between accounting and taxation is critical for determining the tax on the profits of French companies, but understanding this relationship is difficult because of constant changes taking place accounting policies. Accounting is defined as the systematic recording, reporting and...
Recruitment: Practices and issues in France
Thesis - 3 pages - Human resources
The recruitment, which aims to attract candidates with the qualifications and skills to fill available positions and vacancies, are framed by a specific regulation. While free enterprise allows free choice of employees, it remains so unless freedom is limited by hiring certain restrictions, such...
Air France and KLM, Case study
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
To be competitive in the airline industry, companies need to be in control of cost control and management. Companies need to reduce their exposition to risk (fuel management) and control the efficiency of each type of plane they operate. As the industry requires high fixed costs, companies have...
The Sushi market in France
Case study - 2 pages - Services marketing
The Japanese food market has experienced incredible growth since the early 2000s. The number of outlets has increased by 3% over the last 10 years in Paris. This region now has over 1,200 outlets. This growth has been supported by the culinary and cultural trends of Japan.Moreover, the Japanese...
Sales Promotion of Red Bull in France and China
Case study - 14 pages - Services marketing
It seems interesting to analyse Red Bull, as the company uses unique methods of marketing. The brand relies on buzz marketing and word of mouth. The company, which is already established in 144 countries worldwide, launched its famous beverage in France. Most of Red Bull consumers are...
Men's luxury ready to wear clothes in France
Market study - 6 pages - Services marketing
The Haute Couture and the luxury ready to wear clothes account for a worldwide turnover of €20 billion. This activity is characterized by a multiplicity of actors and strategies. The weight of the fashion industry in the French economy represents a sales turnover of € 10 billion (17%...
Market research on business schools in France
Thesis - 7 pages - Educational studies
Management education in France has become widely developed from the 1970's. During this phase of market growth, training GPs predominated, resulting in more specialized training. If the schools were the trendsetters for management training, Universities, new entrants to this market in the...
What's the future for biological cosmetics in France?
Market study - 7 pages - Services marketing
Biological cosmetics know a recently very fast growth, so they constitute a new market segment. Many brands of cosmetics like Loreal want to increase their market shares thanks to this new segment. What's the future for biological cosmetics in France? In the first part, I will see the...
Hypermarket's struggle against the development of hard discount in France
Essay - 9 pages - Services marketing
This dissertation is directed towards the retail world of France. The study is undertaken for the final term of this academic year's research project. To make the topic of study as dynamic and interesting as possible, I have presented a suitable title for the dissertation. Hence, at the...
The Euro: Costs & Benefits for France
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
On the 1st of January 1999, the euro went into circulation as a common currency for eleven of the fifteen European Union countries, with Greece joining in 2001. France joined in 1999. The ratification of the Maastricht treaty in November of 1993 provoked the creation of the European...
The Communication Strategy of Air France
Thesis - 14 pages - Business strategy
In 1933, Air Orient, Air Union,' Compagnie Generale Aerospostale', ‘Societe Generale de Transport Aerien' (ex Farman airlines) and ‘Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aerienne' (CIDNA) merged together to form Air France. Air France was officially inaugurated at the Le...
The Privatization of France Telecom
Thesis - 10 pages - Business strategy
France Telecom experienced a period of profound transition between 2004 and the first half of 2005. The transition process was brought about via a change to the strategic plan with the success of Ambition FT 2005, marking the completion of the financial turnaround of the group and the...
France telecom: The suicide crisis
Thesis - 17 pages - Management
France Telecom S.A. is one of the world's leading and largest telecommunications operators in the world. It is the main telecommunications company in France, and the third largest in Europe. The French Telecom/Orange Group is also a world leader in telecommunications services for...
Outline of "de Gaulle's "vision of France's international role and discuss the ways in which his foreign policy sought to realise this vision.
Thesis - 7 pages - Political science
General de Gaulle is one of the most distinguished political figures of the twentieth century. Often known as “l'homme du 18 Juin”, Charles de Gaulle was a hero of the French Resistance during the Nazi invasion of France, and later became the President of ‘l'Hexagone'. This...
Vichy's Responsability in the Holocaust : The Failure of the Integration of the Jews of France ?
Essay - 6 pages - Modern history
On July 16th 1995, President Jacques Chirac officially recognized for the first time, the responsibility of the Vichy regime in the genocide of the Jews. This statement was heralded as a break from the past as it had been traditionally asserted that no French governmental authorities had taken...
Integrated essay on the empire in the West, France and England as powerful states, the medieval period and Black Death in Europe
Thesis - 5 pages - Literature
Charlemagne's coronation as emperor at St. Peter's Basilica heralded a new era for the West and for the Byzantine Empire. Charlemagne became the strong leader at the helm and his missi dominici kept a watchful eye on territories that were far away. The governments of France and England...
Internship report in Locatel France (2009)
Case study - 11 pages - Services marketing
As a second year student of the INSEEC business school, I had to do an internship during the three months of my summer period. I chose the company Locatel, located in Nanterre Prefecture in France. Locatel is the French and European leader in the integration of interactive multimedia...
Issues of urban renewal: the example of a former industrialized city: Lille in France
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
I have chosen Lille, a large city located in the North of France. Lille is a symbol of the industrialization of many European cities in the 18th and 19th centuries. Indeed, Lille was an important center of textile manufacturing industry. In the 19th century, Lille was the second largest...
A Dutch-French comparative corporate cultures survey through the study of the financing structures of two key-sectors multinational companies: KPN v. France Telecom; Royal Dutch Shell v. Total
Dissertation - 36 pages - Finance
The main cultural assumption in this research paper is about, the French corporate culture once being Latin-like and the Dutch one having been German-like, both the corporate culture of France and the Netherlands firms are converging towards the Anglo-Saxon model. In order to confirm or...
How were the 2006 labor protests seen in France and abroad?
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
On 9 December 1905, a law was passed in France separating the church and the state. However, today in the United States of America, the President takes an oath on the Bible to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic. To the French, it may...
To what extent can the Thatcher-type reforms be applied in France or adapted to France?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
During the past twelve years, three of Jacques Chirac's Prime ministers -Alain Juppé, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin- decided to reform but backed out in the face of protests. The election of a new President, who claimed that he was the candidate for change, during the whole...
Is it more interesting to work in France or in Ireland?
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
For a long time Ireland has had a lower level of standard of living, in comparison to the other countries of EU, but this situation will not last long because great economic expansion in Ireland will be followed by emigration of highly skilled migrant workers in all sector and coming from diverse...
Outline de Gaulle's vision of France's international role and discuss the ways in which his foreign policy sought to realise this vision
Essay - 13 pages - International relations
The immediate cause of Charles de Gaulle's resumption of power (1958-1969) was the Algerian War, which had brought France to the brink of civil war and destroyed the Fourth Republic. By ending the war, de Gaulle had the chance to resurrect his proposal, first elaborated at Bayeux in 1946,...
The suburbs in France: Drugs, violence & riots
Essay - 13 pages - Political science
This paper gives the reader an introduction to a real French suburb. Recently, the suburbs of France are quite in the picture of the world's media, because of the several riots in November 2005 and even now at this moment. On October the 27th it will be precisely one year ago that the...
The impacts of the common agricultural policy (CAP) in France
Thesis - 10 pages - Administrative law
The CAP is often considered as a debate of the specialists since this is a very complex and technical topic, but nowadays there is a huge public debate on this policy which is one of the most important European policy and also one of the most expensive one. In May 2006 there was the biggest...
France and Ireland: Implications of increased immigration on educational systems
Thesis - 15 pages - Social, moral & civic education
France and Ireland are two very different European countries. Their citizens speak different languages, eat different foods, yet every four years they both think they have the best soccer team in the World Cup. Aside from these two country's differences, they have one important feature...
Welcome to dear France: foreign student integration report and interview
Essay - 22 pages - Educational studies
Cross-cultural, Intercultural, relations, conflicts, shock of culture, ethic stereotypes, religious war, terrorism, civilization… When there are too many words to decrypt the world, it is sometimes important to catch the opportunity and to try to change some points of view. Mass media always...
