Personality traits, a fundamental factor for expatriate performance
Thesis - 35 pages - Management
My topic aims at proposing a relation between our personality traits and our performance abroad. Nowadays, expatriates represent a real competitive advantage for multinational companies (MNCs). This research could help companies to understand how important personality is when selecting criteria...
Why would Asterix and Obelix be a successful entrepreneurial founding pair?
Thesis - 21 pages - Management
In this essay, our purpose is to prove that diversity in an entrepreneurial team often leads to success and that, reciprocally, failures may often be explained by the narrow-mindedness resulting from a too homogeneous partnership. When we talk about diversity, we talk about complementary...
The Intercultural management in the tourism sector: a new opportunity for a sustainable performance
Thesis - 60 pages - Management
The tourism sector is clearly characterized by the number of nationalities that form it. Culture is also part of it. Employees from a specific country can face a customer from another country, whose culture is totally different. In the same way, an employee can work in team with another employee...
The mobile Operating Systems War
Thesis - 79 pages - Management
The mobile operating system market is relatively recent. Many major companies hailing from the computer and mobile sector are competing in order to take over this huge market. Until very recently, each mobile manufacturer developed its own proprietary operating system. Most of the mobile phones...
Outsourcing different it functions: a vendor-client relationship perspective
Thesis - 14 pages - Management
We have all heard and read about companies moving their plants, development units or production facilities outside, as a result of outsourcing. The foremost reason of outsourcing seems to be the transaction cost theory that states that a "company should outsource activities if, to carry them out...
Client consultancy project: Leeds Metropolitan University Student' Union Elections
Thesis - 28 pages - Management
This report carries out extensive background research to the election process of Leeds Metropolitan University Students Union (S.U.) and the attitudes of students attending the University. The findings show that students do not feel there is an effort to engage them in the S.U. election process...
The Identification and Reduction of Risk in Project Management
Thesis - 56 pages - Management
The main goal of this report is to discuss the process of identification and risk reduction in project management. The report will target two vital tools and techniques which are crucial for risk management and its significance. The level of failures among large, medium and even small projects is...
Why using brand management in the tourism industry ? The case of destination branding
Thesis - 45 pages - Management
Nowadays the tourism sector is one of the most important economic sectors. The globalization of our world allows for better, easier, faster, and cheaper travel, and the technological progress achieved has left almost no place unknown. We may observe that many destinations are now featuring in...
How to create a homogeneous culture across boundaries?
Thesis - 18 pages - Management
We have decided to study the company Unilever for several reasons. Firstly, Unilever is a European company that is one of the biggest multinationals in the world. Secondly, as we have chosen to study the corporate culture of multinationals, Unilever presents a particular corporate culture....
