Logistics, research report: luggage flow issues in airports
Essay - 12 pages - Logistics
An airport terminal building provides all major passenger services, such as ticket sales, passenger check-in, baggage handling, and security. Inside the terminal, airline employees make flight reservations for travelers, issue seat assignments and coordinate aircraft boarding. All these services...
Ethnographic Research Project: Yoga To The People
Case study - 7 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As our mantra says...this yoga is for mothers, brothers, sisters and grandmothers, poets, bakers, painters and artists. This is Yoga to the People! So let all of your doubts or questions be set aside... come and explore the world of yoga', are the words one can read when entering Yoga to the...
Stock option price modeling using system dynamics and operations research
Thesis - 12 pages - Finance
Options are instruments that give the holder the right, but not an obligation, to buy or sell an asset by a certain date for a certain price. Options can be bought or sold on a variety of assets like stocks, foreign currency, indexes, and futures. A call option gives the holder the right to buy...
Gap: A research on the company
Case study - 7 pages - Services marketing
We decided to conduct an IMC campaign for Gap because it is a very large and well-known retailer that has not been successful in capturing the student market in the last few years. Gap appeals to us with contemporary designs but the plain style that resulted from a new team of lead designers...
Bulgaria and European Union: A research report
Tutorials/exercises - 22 pages - European union
The development of a global financial market transforms the individual countries' and domestic capital markets into connected single financial environment, where investors can take advantage of numerous investment opportunities. The dynamic growth and gradual integration of the Bulgarian capital...
Research methods for managers - published: 29/09/2010
Worksheets - 12 pages - Management
Dr. Don Roberts, a research consultant, has received a government research grant to examine how aspects of a college student's experiences relate to his or her job performance. The research was also interested in the impact of gender on salary and promotions of the...
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 1970s,...
Market research: 'Amazon' from Hermes (2009)
Essay - 22 pages - Services marketing
"A scent is like a mirror of personality. We want to be different and individualistic. Scent is like a dress that reflects the personality of the person who wears the fragrance. This is a signature scent. A perfume is made of both good and bad odors. It is a balance of doses that determines the...
Business Research Method: Study on Organizations in Dubai Media City (DMC) and Dubai Internet City (DIC)
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Teleworking has lately obtained a substantial allowance of vigilance both in the academia and expert world, as one of the amazing alterations in enterprise practices (Morgan, 2004). In the last couple of years, we have seen an expanding interest in the notion of teleworking, especially in Europe...
A research study on absenteeism of employees in an organization
Thesis - 20 pages - Human resources
According to Picoars and Payers ‘unexpected absence disturbs the efficiency of the group as the jobs are inter-connected, if one single man remains absent without prior notice the whole operation process is distributed. This absenteeism results in production losses because, due to...
Qualitative vs. quantitative research techniques in tourism
Case study - 10 pages - Journalism
Research in the field of tourism has not been very important until the early nineteen seventies; it has begun to spread only since that time. Marketing research is a broad concept including various techniques, but a main distinction should be done between quantitative and...
Stigmas and obstacles in communicable disease research: Responses to the Herpes Simplex Virus
Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies
The discipline of public health is a relatively new discipline addressing both old and new problems in all areas of health, including physical and mental. Given the limited funding sources and the endless public health concerns to be addressed, the faces of public health (business/private sector,...
Competitive research on market size of cigarette brands
Tutorials/exercises - 33 pages - Business strategy
The cigarette industry in India is dominated by 4 players - ITC, Godfrey Phillips, VST (also a BAT affiliate) and GTC. These four companies together control almost 99% of the market. The cigarette industry faces competition mainly from the unorganized sector 'bidi' manufacturers, who are...
Market research: Diesel Jeans
Essay - 17 pages - Services marketing
Jeans are clothes that never go out of fashion and are timeless. Today, this product is worn by all the generations. At this time, when models and brands have developed considerably, Levi's, the market leader, has seen strong competition; Diesel became a brand that could not be ignored. It...
The penetration of Hutch (now Vodafone) in the Indian mobile market and research on the users
Tutorials/exercises - 42 pages - Business strategy
Hutchison Essar is a part of the internationally acclaimed Hutchison Whampoa group, a diversified, multinational conglomerate with its origins dating back to 1828 in Hong Kong. The parent company, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, is a part of the Li Ka-Shing group of companies. It is one of the...
Sales-side process automation to improve integration: An exploratory research
Dissertation - 51 pages - Business strategy
The customer has always been important. Peter Drucker, the dean of management consultants, once remarked: “Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two and only two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results: all the...
The study and research of different fields of certified financial planning
Tutorials/exercises - 22 pages - Finance
Every body has dreams, dreams for themselves, dreams for their families, To fulfill these one needs to back up earnings by investing wisely. Most people work hard and earn money but when it comes to financial planning and actually going ahead with it they don't care much. Every one is different,...
A market study and research on the Indian liquor industry
Dissertation - 37 pages - Services marketing
The task on hand was to check the preference of alcohol consumers, which would help our client UDV to market its new product, the latest entrant in the Ready-To-Drink (RTD) segment - Smirnoff ICE. To get the desired information, we used both Primary Data and Secondary Data. The RTD segment...
Critical evaluation of research methods in education
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
On initial consideration, the question posed here seemed to bracket nicely few main points of the subject, but that impression appeared to be inequitable, especially when it came to making judgments concerning different methods and approaches to research projects. The word "method" is...
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 impact...
A research study on chocolate consumption in India in relation to Cadbury and Nestle
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Business strategy
The Indian chocolate industry produces over 30,000 tones of chocolate products in year. The most important players in the Indian chocolate market are Cadbury and Nestle, now Amul is also emerging as one of the major players in the market. Today Cadbury and Nestle cater to the majority of the...
Human rights and Islam: A critical review of research on Sudan
Thesis - 4 pages - Philosophy
Many non-Muslim onlookers in places like the West have heard of the apparent human rights violations that occur in the some parts of the Islamic world, and they have come to conclude that women are naturally supposed to take a subordinate position to men. While there might be some good reasons...
Indian electricity, potential market research, doing business in the Indian Subcontinent
Essay - 5 pages - Services marketing
The following presentation is a first stage proposal in order to establish the firm in the subcontinent. This first stage is a pilot project developed in three years and aims to enter the Indian market. Depending on the results following steps would be figured out in order to plan further...
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...
A research on women's health in relevance to their rights and freedom
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
In the span of our lives we have seen national crisis come and go: The Vietnam War in the 60's, the drug epidemic of the 70's, and the AIDS crisis in the 80's. Most of these conflicts were managed by government control with plans and policy making they slowly settled. Today, in light of recent...
Research methodology business tourism in France
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
Welcome to the wonderful and interesting world of Business Tourism! This essay is the second step of a huge research to find solutions to questions in this market of the wider tourism industry. Meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions, outdoor events and individual business travels...
To what extent should social work practice be informed by social research?
Essay - 19 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Within this work I will be looking to examine the effectiveness of using research in social work practice. I have chosen to do this by reviewing both historic and current research on the outcomes of adoption. Part 1 will consist of a literature review, detailing research...
A research study on performance management system in an organization
Thesis - 11 pages - Human resources
A company reviews the existing appraisal system of senior executive levels. The revised performance management system has components of performance planning, monitoring, review and development through involvement of the appraisee is being introduced. The focus of the performance management...
An outline of qualitative methods of research
Thesis - 14 pages - Educational studies
Some types of research do not involve numbers or analysis of past performance but, rather, finding out people's opinions, feelings, likes and dislikes, and the motivations behind their buying behavior - in other words, the psychology underlying buying decisions. Research into...
Market Research: The launch of a hybrid diesel engine by PSA group
Market study - 4 pages - Services marketing
In 2004, Toyota launched a hybrid car: Prius. The principle of this car is the addition of an electric motor to the traditional petrol engine. The objective is to request the electric motor with starting and low speed and to request the petrol engine at higher speeds. The goal of this technology...
