What are the major opportunities that emerging markets offer to international companies and what are the key considerations that such companies have to take into account when formulating strategies for doing business in emerging markets?
Essay - 8 pages - Business strategy
The notion of an emerging, or developing, market economy appeared 1981 in a World Bank report. This term was used since emerging countries have embarked on economic development and reform programs, and have begun to open up their markets and "emerge" onto the global scene. Therefore...
Analysis of Group Danone and strategic market positioning (2008)
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
The results of the first half of 2008 reflected a 9.6% growth of the various 'Strategic Business Units' from the restructuring of Danone completed in 2007. Indeed, the Danone Group recorded a turnover of over 7.7 billion Euros for the same period. But what developments have Danone...
The changing face of consumer behavior in response to organized retail markets in India
Tutorials/exercises - 33 pages - Business strategy
The retail sector in the developing countries is witnessing a huge revamping exercise as traditional markets make way for new formats such as departmental stores, hypermarkets, supermarkets and specialty stores. Rated the fifth most attractive emerging retail market, India is being...
Kodak - Market study on its Global reach
Market study - 7 pages - Business strategy
Kodak is a leading digital imaging technologies provider in the world. The company serves the photographic and graphic communication markets through its range of imaging products and services. Kodak operates its business through three segments, namely, Film, Photo finishing and...
Allocation of resources in the market
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
How does the free-market allocate its resources? This is a question that needs to be considered when choosing an economic theory to base a society on. The well-known neoclassical model is one that takes it direction from the laws of supply and demand, and is not one that accepts the...
Marketing techniques in the energy Industry
Thesis - 8 pages - Services marketing
The objective of this analysis is to evaluate the functional areas of marketing, financial resources, human resources, technology, operations and research and development relative to how they influence the success of companies within the global gas and petroleum energy production industry. The...
Capital budgeting tools and analysis of capital expenditures
Case study - 35 pages - Business strategy
Capital budgeting is a financial procedure to ensure that capital is allocated to value adding opportunities. A capital budgeting / investment proposal should be accepted /rejected depending on whether it generates, over the life of investment, returns more than its cost of capital. “Capital...
Formal report on the marketing operations of UK's Royal Mail Ltd 2008
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
The objective of this report is to evaluate the functional aspects of marketing in UK's Royal Mail Ltd and how it relates to other departments of the organization. The marketing strength of any business organization is largely reflected through its strategic goals and objectives, and the ability...
Tata AIG Life Insurance Co. Ltd: Market mapping and research for group pensions products
Case study - 19 pages - Services marketing
Due to the advancement made by mankind in the fields of science and medicine, life expectation has been increasing at a steady rate, and today one can expect to have a longer life span than the earlier generations. For people, this increase means a longer retirement life, which would mean they...
Working capital and ratio analysis: BHEL Hyderabad
Case study - 60 pages - Finance
GROWTH : To ensure a steady growth by enhancing the competitive edge of BHEL in existing business, new areas and international operation so as to fulfill national expectations from BHEL. PROFITABILITY: To provide a reasonable and adequate return on capital employed, primarily through...
Operational risk management: Implementing a Bayesian Network for foreign exchange and money market settlement
Dissertation - 114 pages - Finance
Recent Financial scandals in the banking industry have caused considerable attention to be focused on operational risk. This is because an analysis of some of these scandals reveals that the underlying causes of these huge Financial losses are due to Operational Risk (OR) and not to credit or...
A study on working capital management in Visaka Industries Limited
Case study - 44 pages - Finance
The company was incorporated under the Indian Company's Act 1956 on 18th June 1981 as Visaka Asbestos Cement Product ltd and promoted by Dr.G.Vivekananda with investment of Rs 4 crores to set up cement asbestos plant in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh. It has grown in to multiple folds and now...
Working capital management
Dissertation - 39 pages - Finance
According to Weston and Brigham working capital refers to the firm's investment, its shorter current assets and short term securities accounting receivables and inventory. According to the Guttmann and Doug all working capital is excess of current assets over liabilities. According to the...
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...
Improving the Tunisian financial market by adopting the international reference frame in terms of reporting with the aid of IAS/IFRS
Dissertation - 45 pages - Finance
The deterioration of the reputation of major players in financial markets (banking, insurance, financial institutions) has created a crisis of confidence without precedent with lasting consequences for all economic actors today and they are difficult to measure. In this context of high...
Working capital management at Britannia Industries Ltd
Dissertation - 40 pages - Finance
Finance function is a core function in any organization. I financial management is that managerial activity which is concerned with planning and counseling of firm's financial resources. One such area of financial management is "Working Capital" and management of this is known as "Working...
"History of Capitalism" (part 4 to part 7) by Michel Beaud (2000)
Book review - 35 pages - Economy general
Capitalism is a logic based on the production of goods. It became prominent in Britain along with Europe and the United States during the "early industrial" era from 1770 to 1860: Textiles, machinery, railways and arms. But capitalism in its historical movement, also concerns the capitalist...
Mergers and Acquisitions: reasons and consequences at the international market
Dissertation - 40 pages - Finance
The paper deals with the issue of mergers and acquisitions on the western market, viewing the topic from the standpoint of their failure and success. The subject is an extremely important one at present, as, on the one side, there is a trend towards major international mergers and...
Is capitalism a positive or negative force in International Relations?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
In 1995, the 200 most powerful multi-national corporations controlled approximately one third of the world GNP The turnover of these companies sometimes exceeds the GNP of some countries: one example is General Motors which with a turnover of 132 billion dollars surpasses the GNP of Indonesia....
Microfinance: the Challenge of Accessing Global Capital Markets
Essay - 9 pages - Finance
The main theme of this project is the facilitation and development of microfinance, which is the “provision of loans, savings, insurance, payments, and other basic financial services to low-income populations” . The project is dedicated to identifying and evaluating existing options for...
Efficient capital markets and the importance of behavioral finance
Essay - 7 pages - Finance
Efficient capital markets allow to consumers and companies to invest savings, borrow, and manage risk in the most effective way. Capital markets bring together companies, that seek to raise capital to invest in future performance and investors, who seek for a profitable return on...
Critics on the research paper: The market pricing of accruals quality (Jennifer Francis, Ryan LaFond, Per Olsson, Katherine Schipper)
Market study - 8 pages - Services marketing
The paper “The market pricing of accruals quality” sustains that the quality of accruals is priced by the financial markets. We can judge the value of this research by wondering to what extent, from a methodological and theoretical point of view, the accrual quality has an...
Estimating market risk premium using Markov switching : Tunisian Case
Dissertation - 97 pages - Finance
The general increase in volatility of the …nancial markets can be partly explained by the growing uncertainly of the economic environment. It is, on the other hand, a reflection of the growing efficiency and integration of the financial markets allow the almostinstantaneous...
Capital budgeting methods
Essay - 7 pages - Finance
Capital budgeting is concerned with the process of producing, evaluating, selecting and controlling capital expenditures. In this context, capital budgeting decisions are critical. Winning projects typically produce positive cash flows for a long period of time, while failing projects do not...
EEV (European Embedded Value) and MCEV (Market Consistent Embedded Value)
Essay - 11 pages - Business strategy
In May 2004 the CFO forum published European Embedded Value Principles. The “CFO Forum” is a high-level discussion group composed and attended by the Chief Financial Officers of 19 leading European insurers. These principles are intended to increase the quality, comparability and...
Working capital analysis of a steel plant
Case study - 43 pages - Business strategy
Finance is the life blood of any business. As like without blood a human being cannot survive similarly without finance a business survive or run. Finance is aptly called as the science of money. It is the study of the principle and the methods of obtaining control of money from those who have...
Capital budgeting: India
Case study - 35 pages - Economy general
An efficient allocation of capital is the most important financial function in modern times. It involves decision to commit firm's funds to long-term assets. Such decisions are tend to determine the value of company/firm by influencing its growth, profitability & risk. Investment decisions...
Foreign exchange market in India with NPR Finance Ltd
Dissertation - 59 pages - Finance
The Foreign exchange market is a market for converting the currency of one country into that of another country. An exchange rate is simply the rate at which one currency is converted into another. Without the foreign exchange market, international trade and international...
A discussion and analysis of Marx and Webers theories concerning the development of industrial capitalism
Thesis - 6 pages - Economy general
It is widely accepted that most of the developed countries in the world today are ‘capitalist' economies. Capitalism in economic terms is a free market system, involving little government intervention (a laissez-faire approach). Capitalism involves investment in the means of...
A study on working capital management
Thesis - 10 pages - Finance
Cash is the lifeline of a company, no matter how large or small the organization is. If this lifeline deteriorates so does the company's ability to fund operations, reinvest and meet capital requirements and payments. Understanding a company's cash flow health is essential to making...
