Importing french wine to India
Case study - 7 pages - Economy general
Our wine house was created in 1986 and our first production was in 1988. Since then, we benefit from a great success, thanks to our bio-dynamical production process. The production process is carried out in a most traditional way. What we like is sincerity, personal sense of expression and...
China as an innovator, not just an imitator - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
A large number of patents are granted to China in various fields (green energy, space program, 3G mobiles?) underlining the fact that the country that invented paper, gunpowder and the compass many years ago is making a come-back among the international technology inventors. China has many...
Setting up a business in Bolivia - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 14 pages - Economy general
Bolivia is a Republic. The seat of government is in La Paz, although the legal capital and also the seat of justice are located in Sucre. The country is separated in 9 administrative divisions: Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Beni, La Paz, Oruro, Pando, Potosi, Santa Cruz and Tarija. Bolivia gained its...
AnimeHA, Full Tilt Poker and Alienware: case study of three successfull e-businesses - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 7 pages - Economy general
Nowadays, launching a successful e-business requires several conditions to be fulfilled. We must have knowledge of the current elements that are part of e-business, such as the different existing business models. We also have to be aware of the numerous applications provided by the Internet...
E business : Zara - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 9 pages - Economy general
The market of Ready-to-wear has its origin in the 60s and it has created a revolution in the textile industry. Since the 70s, it has shown talent in Italian, English, Chinese and American clothing, and the 70s was also the beginning of internationalization of fashion. In our current society,...
The gender gap in the ownership and control of property is the single most critical contributor to the gender gap in economic well-being, social status, and empowerment' - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
Before the 1970s, women were practically invisible: they were relegated to the family and the domestic world. However since the middle of this same decade, the gender issue has become an increasingly theme within the development concern. Globalization not only affects men but women as well,...
Globalization is a positive force that uniformly bolsters the economic prospects of countries and societies around the globe. Do you agree or disagree? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Economy general
"Another world is possible". This sentence, popularized for the first time during the demonstrations in the Doha Round, aims at denouncing the rising inequalities within countries, and considers the kind of globalization currently implemented being responsible for the prevailing situation....
Inequality vs poverty - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
For this discussion paper, I would like to focus mostly on Feldstein's argument of tackling poverty instead of inequality and why this is a dangerous perspective. To begin with, Feldstein's argument concerning the Pareto principle refers to the economic concept of Pareto superiority,...
The New Labour and the Welfare State - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
Firstly let us analyze the approaches the New Labor has chosen through a different ideological and pragmatic frame than earlier Labor governments when it comes to welfare provision and public policies. In this context, the New Labor has followed the Thatcherite tradition in working towards what...
A Comparative Analysis of the Welfare States of Germany, Sweden, and the United States - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
A welfare-state is a state in which organized power is used to provide social services to a society that cannot provide these things for itself through market-based transactions. Studying the welfare-states of Germany, Sweden and the United States will provide us a valuable perspective in...
Analyse of Chinese cultural system, its implications for cross-cultural management and the French business people who want to deal with Chinese counterparts - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 17 pages - Economy general
We naturally view the world from our own perspective and critically analyze that is different. Anything does not correspond to our perspective looks "abnormal", "inferior" or we don't feel comfortable or we are "afraid". But most perspectives are "normal" and respectable. People just have...
At the heart of the Lyon Silk market: Stakes and challenges of international prospects - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 29 pages - Economy general
Our initiative cleary describe the historic interweavings between our city of Lyon and the international market of the silk. The story of the silk begins dates back to the Chinese tradition in XVIIth century BC and continues with three millenniums of exclusivity in the course of which China...
Saving self control: A behavioral approach to analyze why individuals save and what prevents them from doing it well - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 10 pages - Economy general
How and why consumers and investors save, has remained as a puzzle since modern economists approached the question. Clearly, we save because we have to, but we rarely ever want to save as an end in and of itself. Current the leading models present this dilemma as a struggle between two personal...
Doing business in China : Danone-Wahaha joint venture - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 6 pages - Economy general
1919: “DANONE” was founded by Isaac Carasso in Barcelona (Spain) as a small factory producing yoghurt. “DANONE” is a Catalan diminutive of the name of his first son, Daniel. - 1929: The first factory was built in France, but during World War II, Daniel Carasso moved the...
Online clothes renting business: « Des Marques et Vous » - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 25 pages - Economy general
'Des Marques et Vous' or ‘Brands and You' is the name of the new company we plan to set up. This name is in French and implies two meanings; it means 'people and their attachment to the brands' and 'being different from the other brands'. This company's name is...
Alibaba business values - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 10 pages - Economy general
On the 6th of last November, one week after its introduction, the Alibaba stockmarket was quoted for the first time: it acquired 190% of its introduction price . Other than being a testimony that both China and the internet have a habit of going to the heads of investors, Alibaba was created...
Group Renault in the Russian Market - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 42 pages - Economy general
Solid and ambitious, the Renault Commitment 2009 plan, revealed by Carlos Ghosn on February 2006, mobilizes the entire company around three strong key commitments: quality (position New Laguna among the Top 3 models in its segment, in terms of product and service quality), profitability (achieve...
Study on Moroccan Labour law, Labour Resources and Costs
Case study - 19 pages - Economy general
Morocco has created a favorable environment for investors as the result of an extensive program designed to attract business to the country. Multinational corporations that have invested in Morocco benefited from those competitive advantages on several fronts. This study gives detailed...
Procter and Gamble Japan: the SK 2 Globalization Project - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 13 pages - Economy general
Procter and Gamble have been operating internationally for decades. Number of countries in which P&G has been operating over years As we can see, there had been brisk development during the ‘50s and the ‘60s. Then, the internationalization process stagnated during the ‘70s. A...
Is Capitalism here to stay or is another vision of economics possible and viable? - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
For many centuries, Capitalism has been the only economic system in the industrialized world. In the present world, this system is in crisis. Billions of people live below the poverty line without any access to food, health care or housing. By capitalism, we mean a system of production that...
McDonald's in India: a glocal strategy - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 12 pages - Economy general
India is an assimilation of several ethnic groups. Its geographic origin, language, religion, dress, food, habits differ from one state to another. There are 22 different languages that are recognized, and there are hundreds of dialects. Nonetheless, people have the same temperament all over the...
The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve System (FED) - publié le 29/09/2010
Presentation - 23 pages - Economy general
This document is a presentation of the European Central Bank (ECB). The national central banks (NCB) make part of the ESCB Headquarters based in Frankfurt Presentation of the FED, which was created in 1913 by the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act and headquartered in Washington D.C. The...
Schneider-Legrand merger: was Bruxelles "Wrong or Right"to block the merger? - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 5 pages - Economy general
This document will answer the following questions: Why did the European Commission decide to block the French merger? What was the opinion of Henri Lachmann (the CEO of Schneider Electric) about the veto? Is it usual to meet with this kind of refusal in Europe? What are the arguments against...
Failures and benefits of free trade and the role of World Trade Organization (WTO) - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 10 pages - Economy general
The free flow of international trade gained significance after the Second World War when the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was tabled. The GATT was followed by the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. The WTO was formed to establish rules for international...
Trust online and the opinion of former consumers - publié le 29/09/2010
Dissertation - 72 pages - Economy general
This study examines the issue of trust and the influence of the opinion of former users in electronic commerce. The lack of trust is the main reason why people are still reluctant to purchase online. Lack of trust is due to many reasons in online business, no physical contact, risk of theft of...
Are the migrant workers competing with locals in China's urban labour market? - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Economy general
At the end of the 1970s, the Communist Party of China (CPC) acknowledged that planned economy had not managed to increase the Chinese standards of living. Consequently, it started to reform the economic system in order to modernize it. The labor market was also not been excluded from such...
Analysis of the opportunities for a MNC to expand its international operations on Chinese and Indian markets - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 12 pages - Economy general
With the biggest two populations of the world, China (1.3 billion inhabitants) and India (1.1 billion inhabitants) became two major participants in the global economy. With the late evolution of their populations, China and India have evolved as the two most important emerging markets and they...
Creating Colette in Shanghai - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 2 pages - Economy general
By sticking to the original concept and in tandem with the new emerging Chinese market - How to recreate Colette's lifestyle store in Shanghai is a question that needs to be analyzed. First step is to start with the company analysis in order to underline its strengths and weaknesses and prepare...
International economics: Essay on the advantages and disadvantages of globalization
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
‘We are living a transformation which is going to reconstruct population and economy for the coming century. There will be no more national products and technologies, no more national firms, no more national industries, no more national economies. Only individuals, which constitute nations,...
Case study Schneider-LeGrand Merger
Case study - 14 pages - Economy general
Beginning with a certain turnover, the EU merger rules are to be applied to cross-border concentrations, irrespective of the size of the company or area of their activity. A pre-merger notification to the European Commission is obligatory. Most cases are closed by the completion of the phase I,...
