Training program for DSG international: Proposing a project to establish staff training
Case study - 8 pages - Human resources
DSG international, know as Dixons Store Group, is one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe. For instance, the company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The Group owns 1,300 stores and online stores, across 28 countries and...
The WTO's importance in relation to the global trading system has now diminished
Essay - 5 pages - Business strategy
Born in 1995, the World Trade Organization's mission is to liberalize trade in goods and services in the world. Globalisation with the creation of a jurisdiction of trade conflicts, WTO conferences from Seattle to Bali in 2013 , showed the new influence of the institution, the a major issue...
Are manufacturing jobs better than service- International Business?
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Of late, there has cropped up many issues in the business world that were previously unheard of. The current competitive business world calls for numerous strategies. This has inspired change in decision taking and behavior of business enterprises. Sometime back, the manufacturing industry was...
Market study - International competitiveness: Porsche
Case study - 15 pages - International marketing
Porsche sales profile over the years - Porsche sales have been stable until 2009 when it drops to then reach its peak in 2011; - In 2011, Porsche most sold model was Cayenne (about 60 thousand units), followed by Panamera (28 thousand units), 911 (18 thousand units) and Boxster and Cayman (11...
How has the Belt and Road Initiative played a part in China's cross-regional political and security relations?
Essay - 3 pages - International relations
The announcement of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013 was meant to signal China's interest in building stronger global economic links, but it has been argued that the BRI also serves to improve Beijing's cross-regional diplomacy in other ways, including strengthening the country's security....
Cultural Differencies in International Business Negotiation: the Need for an Assessment of Influencial Factors
Litterature review - 14 pages - Management
With social conflict being ubiquitous, conflict management is a major challenge for humanity. Recently, researchers have advanced several theories and research on constructive solutions for conflict management. Negotiation is then proposed as the most effective way to do this according to...
International Law Norms Binding States
Essay - 4 pages - International law
This document discusses how states can be bound by international law norms without their explicit acceptance, through various means such as treaties, custom, and the role of international organizations and judges.
India's Position on 'Use of Force' as 'Right of Self Defense' According to International Law, not as a Double Standard: A Critical Look at India's Recent Conflict with Pakistan
Thesis - 18 pages - International law
In this paper, I critically explore the changing dependence of India on the right of self-defence as described in international law by paying special attention to the hostilities involved between it and Pakistan in the recent times since the early twenty first century, i.e. twenty first...
Foreign relations of Japan
Case study - 3 pages - International relations
In 2012, the Obama Administration represented by its Secretary of State Hilary Clinton published an ambitious document putting forth the United States' intention to pivot its main foreign policy concerns to the Asia-Pacific region. Traditionally in charge of ensuring security over allies such as...
The Arab - Western cultural relations
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Since the transatlantic declaration in 1990, American and European enjoy a strong relationship with an active cooperation in several sectors as Justice, Energy, Environment, Science or Education. They represent the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world with roughly 40%...
China's relations with North Korea
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
« Over the past 60 years, the great China-DPRK friendship, created by the older generations in the fights of blood and fire, has withstood various tests of international vicissitudes. » As stated by Mr Liu Xiaoming, ambassador of China in North Korea, the PRC is and has been for more than...
The impact of good employee relations practices on an organisation's success
Essay - 2 pages - Management
An organisation will only run smoothly if there are certain practices are enforced (Pot, Howchin & Douma, 2011). These are known as employee relations practices. According to Deery, Walsh and Waring (2005), these are practices established by the organisation in order to regulate the...
International operations and logistics - Supply chain management
Case study - 9 pages - Logistics
Alpha, the explosion protection solutions manufacturer, recently faced financial pressure due to some external specific situations, mostly the global downturn in the oil and gas industry. Therefore, the company has had to imagine a new supply chain's strategy aiming at improving its global...
International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, Employee Turnover in the Hospitality Industry Using Herzberg's Two-Factor Motivation-Hygiene Theory - Bettye L. Holston-Okae and Richard Mushi (2018) - The Impact of Motivation on Employee Turnover in the Hotel Industry
Text analysis - 3 pages - Micro-economy, job-unemployment
Employee turnover in the hospitality sector is one of the issues influencing the organization's effectiveness and ensuring financial stability. However, the importance of motivation compared to other determinants regarding team member retention becomes more pronounced. A driven workforce...
International Companies and their Strategies
Case study - 10 pages - Management
As a result of the globalisation that we are witnessing for more than twenty decades, the smallest of companies could cross seas and establish business in foreign lands, as a consequence of that, many names have been given to these companies that succeeded in doing business abroad. The three main...
US-Nicaragua relations: an excessive twitch?
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
In 1904, President Roosevelt, who aimed at maintaining the order defined by the 1823 Monroe doctrine, declared: “We would interfere with [Latin America] only in last resort, and then only if it became evident that their inability or unwillingness to do justice at home and abroad had violated...
The Arab - Western cultural relations - publié le 14/02/2011
Case study - 6 pages - Foreign markets
Since the transatlantic declaration in 1990, American and European enjoy a strong relationship with an active cooperation in several sectors as Justice, Energy, Environment, Science or Education. They represent the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world with roughly 40%...
The Guns of August and International Politics - Barbara Tuchman
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The book Gun of August has been written by Barbara Tuchman and is about First World War classic histories. In this book, Barbara reconstructs the World War I's first one month, which is the first thirty days within the 1914 summer, which determined the conflict's cause, the century, as well as...
How to reduce the turnover of a company dependent on a single supplier by developing a multi-supplier and international merchant site?
Thesis - 28 pages - Digital & e-marketing
MANICO is an ESPRIT franchise. This type of contract creates a high dependency on a single supplier and eliminates any possibility of online sales. In order to reduce this reliance on ESPRIT, the company wishes to develop a merchant website with several French and foreign brands and to provide...
International business management
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Business strategy
For the purpose of this comment, I picked different elements depending on my personal interests especially on management issues and how it is possible to bring people from different cultures, with different expectations and ways of communicating things to work together in the same project, with...
Comprehensive Analysis of Sea Change International, Inc.
Case study - 15 pages - Business strategy
Organizations operate in a business environment characterized by high uncertainty influencing the link existing between their strategies and overall performance. This arises from the turbulent world, where each day appears to bring along the dawn of a new environmental era. Assuming that the...
Canada-Africa Commercial Relations
Dissertation - 6 pages - Economic politics
This research explores Canada's commercial policies towards Africa, examining the reasons behind strengthening economic ties and the role of development aid.
O&O Consulting - International Business Strategies in Action
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
O&O Consulting is a major human resource firm within the local and regional market extending to cover the United States, Canada. We pride ourselves in providing excellent and relevant strategic, managerial solutions to our clients who range exclusively of medium sized firms to multinationals. We...
International finance distribution of currency of AUD and USD
Study guide - 4 pages - Finance
The distribution above conforms to the features of a normal distribution in terms of skewness, kurtosis, and tails. The mean-mode-median of the distribution is at the center. The mean is the arithmetic average of all the scores recorded, mode refers to the fact that the mean appears near the most...
International Management: Wal-Mart Case Study
Case study - 6 pages - Management
There are no doubts that Wal-Mart is internationally renowned for its huge success in the United States and as one of the biggest American companies. It is commonly known that the average turnover of Wal-Mart actually reaches the Growth Domestic Product of Sweden and this shows how important is...
International Consumer Behavior-A noodle soup to Israel
Case study - 5 pages - Management
Our product is a new concept of noodle soup. Its primary function is obviously to nourish people but above all, it should be like a new experience to eat that noodle soup, which is not a simple noodle soup but goes further than eating noodles in hot water. Actually, we are going to offer a...
International market developing: Culture dialogue under the background of globalization
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Globalization is the process of nations integration in a global economic space. However, globalization does not only apply to economics.Indeed, globalization is also the cultural field. Culture in globalization then two meaning: The first is the circulation of cultural products such as...
International consumer behavior - publié le 23/06/2011
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Services marketing
Our company wants to launch a new service in car insurance in Netherland. In this way we will propose an all inclusive pack for our customers which will beneficiate of free services as fixing their car after a damage, the lend of a car during reparation... We notice that in this country drivers...
"Le marketing international", Eliane Karsaklian (2006)
Book review - 4 pages - International marketing
The book "Le Marketing International” was written by Eliane Karsaklian and published in December 2006. The goal of the author, while writing this book, was to highlight the main purpose of international marketing in creating efficient international marketing strategies....
The legal effect of unilateral acts of States and international organizations
Essay - 7 pages - International law
The International Law Commission is responsible for the codification and progressive development of international laws. It had its forty eighth session in 1996 and the issues of Unilateral Acts and their legal effects have figured prominently in their discussions. There is an...
