Dubailand - would the pharaohs have dared?
Essay - 8 pages - Tourism marketing
Dubai is the second largest of the seven city states in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with Abu Dhabi as the largest. Since Dubai has proven reserves of only 4 billion barrels of oil, the government decided to implement a new strategy of economical diversification in order to get out of the...
Achievement motivation as it applies to competitive sport
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
An important psychological need is the need to achieve: the motive to achieve success by exceeding previous levels of success set by one's self and/or others. Achievement motivation can be characterized as both the need to achieve and as the need to avoid failure. The purpose of this paper is to...
Li and Fung: Case study - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 5 pages - Services marketing
The Chinese company Li & Fung was created in the Guangzhou area in 1906. This is a family company founded by Fung Pak Liu, the grandfather of the actual director Victor Li. The first goal of Li & Fung when it had just been created was to act as a ‘broker': Fung, who was an English speaker,...
Asian Pacific Business - Malaysia
Market study - 7 pages - Economy general
The world has seen the most important economic growth since the end of the Second World War in the region of East Asia. This incredible economic phenomenon had emerged more particularly in Japan during the 1950s. This trend has been followed later by what is known as the four dragons: Taiwan,...
Asian Pacific Business - Malaysia - published: 01/07/2010
Market study - 7 pages - Foreign markets
The world has seen the most important economic growth since the end of the Second World War in the region of East Asia. This incredible economic phenomenon had emerged more particularly in Japan during the 1950s. This trend has been followed later by what is known as the four dragons: Taiwan,...
Sergio Rossi : challenges in the emerging market - publié le 28/09/2006
Case study - 51 pages - Services marketing
The brand history: at the beginning : Sergio Rossi learned the art of shoe making by working beside his father. He established his own brand in the 50's at San Mauro Pascoli. He created shoes for urban and sophisticated customers. Demand increased during the 60's and 70's while Italy's quality...
Marketing management in a Globalizing World
Essay - 9 pages - Tourism marketing
French Connection is a company founded in the United Kingdom in 1972 which produce and distributes branded fashion clothing for men and women to more than 30 countries around the world from their offices in London, New York, Hong Kong and Toronto. French Connection's company is a...
Chinese Immigration In The United Kingdom
Essay - 9 pages - International relations
Chinese migrants were often overlooked because they were never one of the largest immigrant groups in the United Kingdom. But their presence has been and is still significant. There are many reasons for Chinese people to consider migrating to the UK. In the study of migration, push factors...
RSTUDIO - Quiz (R and Tidying Basics)
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Computer science
In this quiz you will be analysing foods' carbon footprint data from nu3's 2018 Food Carbon Footprint Index (the actual data scrapping is explained here). It contains data on CO2 emissions per person for a large number of countries for the year 2018, using data from the Food and...
Corruption in South Korea
Case study - 8 pages - Political science
The South Korean development pattern entailed a tremendous economic success story as its expansion has been one of the fastest in the world between 1961 and 1990. The GNP grew of 7.1 percent every year1. Plus, in spite of the 1998 financial crisis and negative growth rates, the country...
Li and Fung: Case study
Case study - 5 pages - International marketing
The Chinese company Li & Fung was created in the Guangzhou area in 1906. This is a family company founded by Fung Pak Liu, the grandfather of the actual director Victor Li. The first goal of Li & Fung when it had just been created was to act as a ‘broker': Fung, who was an English speaker,...
The regulations applying to Chinese importations in the European Union
Essay - 6 pages - European union
In the late 1970s the group, popularly known as the Liem Investors, bought a stake in Overseas Union Finance to increase its Hong Kong presence. In a move seen as unusual among closely controlled Asian family businesses, around 1981, Salim directed his son Anthony to bring in...
Standard Chartered - Strategy in APAC
Case study - 19 pages - Business strategy
The total exposure of the Retail Banking portfolio under moratoria is $2.4 billion, of which $1.8 billion (74 percent) is from residential mortgages, which is secured against properties with an average loan-to-value of less than 40 percent.
An in-depth analysis of the role of the Brazilian state in its economic development
Essay - 12 pages - Political science
The third world is a subject which has caused much ink. Several features can be found as economic problems, political instability, authoritarian regimes. However, some countries as the tigers (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong-Kong) succeed in dealing with their economic and...
Business environment assignment: sets of scenarios for the futur development of China
Case study - 12 pages - Foreign markets
China, one of the biggest countries of the world after Russia and Canada, is located in the East coast of Asia. This country is also one of the most populated with 1. 324. 655. 000 inhabitants, according to the latest figures and it represents one fifth of the world's population (The...
Sergio Rossi : challenges in the emerging market
Case study - 52 pages - Sport marketing
History of the brand: Beginning of a shoe making career: Sergio Rossi acquired the art of shoe making by working along with his father. He established his own brand in the 50's at San Mauro Pascoli. Sergio's shoes mostly catered to the needs of the urban and sophisticated customers. As...
Airline industry: analysis of five forces model of Porter - publié le 29/09/2010
Market study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Airlines are companies and their aim is to operate routes and carry passengers. We will not analyse the cargo part of the airlines here but only the passenger carrying. An Airline can be a national company (airline owned by the government of a country). It normally conducts scheduled flights but...
International portfolio's diversification and stock markets volatility
Essay - 20 pages - Economy general
The current paper aims at studying the volatility of thirteen stock markets returns (mature and emerging) by means of ARCH models in order to see its effects on the potential gains of international diversification. Then, we identify the effects of the volatility's temporal variation on the...
The French luxury industry in China
Thesis - 45 pages - Services marketing
China with a huge population of 1.3 billion opened its market to economic reform following the death of China with a huge population of 1.3 billion opened its market to economic reform following the death of Mao Zedong in 1978 and the subsequent accession to power by Deng Xiaoping. Based on the...
Internship report: An overview of David Travels & the current market for travel agencies
Book review - 40 pages - Business strategy
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page”, wrote Saint Augustine. From this quotation, we understand that traveling today is a way of discovering new cultures, languages, values etc. This is what largely prompted me to intern in a travel agency. So, when a...
In company project, final report : Costa Croisières
Case study - 24 pages - Tourism marketing
Our report intends to provide COSTA CROISIERES with useful data regarding the Cruise Market in China on one hand and expatriates' needs and expectations in terms of a vacation on the other. The main purpose of this report is both to analyze deeply and try to come up with relevant...
Disney Entering Brazil
Market study - 6 pages - Management
Disney has had a lot of success in a myriad of different locations including the United States, China and France. A main place that has eluded the Disney Empire, however, lies in South America. With the growing population, increasing wealth and education it only makes sense for Disney to enter...
The importance of plastic money in today's scenario
Dissertation - 69 pages - Finance
Financial cards witnessed a robust growth in India in 2002-03. The number of cards in circulation increased by almost 50 per cent. The growth in transaction value, at 95 per cent, was even more spectacular. These results are attributable to the thriving economy which led to a large increase in...
The instability of the international financial system and the proposals for reform proposals
Dissertation - 193 pages - Economy general
In 1997, an earthquake hit Asian stock exchanges, the shock wave reached Russia a year later, and then Latin America, including Brazil in 1999. To the world, these crises have been a succession of real and financial shocks of exceptional magnitude. Far from having exogenous origins, this global...
Ready garment export after the multi fiber agreement with a reference to India
Tutorials/exercises - 31 pages - Economy general
The foundations of the Indian textile trade with other countries began as early as the second century BC. The silk fabric was a popular item of Indian exports to Indonesia around the 13th century, where these were used as barter for spices. Towards the end of the 17th century, the British East...
Capstone Case: EBay's implementation in China
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
The Internet sector has been animated by a lot of investment during 1990's period with the Internet bubble, and a lot of company has invested in start up in trusting in a new profitable sector. Every investor wanted to be the first one to enter the market and to lead competition through business...
Future of tobacco industry post tobacco ban
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Americans spend an estimated $51.9 billion on tobacco products in 1997, or just under 1% of their disposable income. Of this amount, $48.7 billion (or 94%) was spent on cigarettes, $2.2 billion on smokeless and smoking tobacco, and $0.9 billion on cigars. Cigarette production in the United...
The Chinese cosmetics market on the internet
Market study - 50 pages - Economy general
With 1.322 billion people, China is the most populous country in the world and thus the largest market in the world. Although it has a communist past of the Soviet model, since 1978 the Government of the People's Republic of China has reformed its economy in order to gradually open the market...
Trends in the luxury market in China - publié le 11/10/2012
Case study - 17 pages - Business strategy
Mandeville describes luxury everything beyond the bare necessities. The luxury covers everything that is deemed superfluous and unnecessary. But the usual sense means the splendor and sophistication in the way of life (tableware, toilet elegant, sumptuous decor). We can acquire luxury by large...
Intercultural management, electronic arts in China: strategic plan
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Electronic Arts, an American company specializing in video games wants to expand its products all around the world where there are opportunities. The American company founded in 1983 and based in Redwood City in California, is today one of the top ten companies as video game producers in the...
