Abstract
We wanted to create our report on the difference of management between Japan and the United States but we were one of the last groups to choose our theme and it was already taken. So we took the last theme that was left: Europe. A lot of the European countries we wanted to study had already been taken by the other groups (such as France, Spain, and Germany), and we didn't want to study a country that had already been chosen by someone else for the presentation, because we did not want to repeat what another group had already said, or have someone repeat what we had said during our presentation. It would have been uninteresting for the class as well as for us. We decided first of all to study a Scandinavian country because they had not been chosen by other groups. We then decided on Finland because of Nokia. This company has one of the best management systems in the world, and we thought it would be interesting to see if it was due to the management style used in Finland. Besides, one of our group members is going to Finland for her Erasmus and she wanted to know a little more about this country. After having chosen Finland we decided to choose a country where the culture is completely different so we decided on the countries of southern Europe. We then decided on Greece for it is a county we don't hear a lot about. We thought it would be interesting to learn a little more on this country.
