The Impact of Environmental Issues on Toyota's Strategy - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 17 pages - Services marketing
This thesis will seek to understand the controversial relationship between environmental factors and Toyota. Indeed, motor vehicle exhaust-emissions notably that of carbon monoxide pollution, is caused directly by the automobile industry. However, these negative impacts changed the position of...
The company Renault and the consideration of environmental issues in its production
Case study - 39 pages - Business strategy
Renault was founded by Louis Renault and his brothers in 1898. It is a familial and traditional company that made a name for itself through the years, different periods and centuries. Indeed, Renault's group went thought two wars and an economic crisis, and by always adapting its strategy and its...
The company Renault and the consideration of environmental issues in its production - publié le 29/09/2010
Case study - 39 pages - Business strategy
Renault was founded by Louis Renault and his brothers in 1898. It is a familial and traditional company that made a name for itself through the years, different periods and centuries. Indeed, Renault's group went thought two wars and an economic crisis, and by always adapting its strategy and its...
Analysis of Décathlon's competitive environment
Market study - 21 pages - Sport marketing
Sporting goods retailers may benefit from the ever increasing purchasing power in developing countries, especially in BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and Russia). It is not established yet that these developing countries are dedicating more of their budget to sport purchases but it is well-known...
Environment protection initiatives by the European Union
Thesis - 7 pages - European law
Environment policy is one of the greatest social challenges faced by governments and Businesses today. This is due to the rise in awareness of the impact of the environment on public health and welfare. The need for environmental conservation gave rose to a series of Community...
Asian business environment : A market survey of wine in China - publié le 29/09/2010
Market study - 5 pages - Economy general
The idea of choosing this particular market for our study is of course mainly due to the long history and passion for Wine in France. As a matter of fact, we wanted to have a better understanding of the Wine Market in China so as to study the opportunity of creating a Business there. Through this...
The European business environment, Renault-Nissan
Thesis - 2 pages - Business strategy
Renault-Nissan knows so many direct competitors. Indeed, it is within the same criteria as PSA, Fiat or Toyota. We shall now see below, what are the distinctive capabilities that allow Renault-Nissan to stand out and differentiate from others. For this, we must first review the internal diagnosis.
Heuristic algorithms for scheduling of a batch processor for the automobile gear manufacturing environment
Thesis - 18 pages - Mathematics
In this paper we develop a mathematical model and propose six heuristic algorithms for scheduling jobs with incompatible job families, on a singe batch processor (BP). The motivation for this paper comes from the heat treatment operation in gear manufacturing process used to manufacture...
The evolution of a company and its environment
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
It seems necessary to present the historical evolution that has led companies to develop the need for such methods. If there is currently no silver bullet in the wide range of tools of modern management, which would solve all the problems of business, new methods and theories are emerging to help...
A branching process in an alternating random environment
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A continuous-time branching process model of a stochastic population is considered in which the life-time and the reproductive capacity of the individuals are dependent on a fluctuating environment. Using an imbedding technique, an integral equation is formulated for the probability...
Intelligent agent-assisted decision support for personalized virtual learning environment
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
In the delivery of online learning, Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) have been growing quickly and research on intelligent agent supported eLearning systems has developed rapidly in the last decade. However, some online learning programs have not been successful, and one of the main...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) law and the environment - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
In 1979 the Brandt Commission recommended that an international trade organization incorporating both GATT and UNCTAD was the objective towards which the international community should work. This dream came true in January 1995 when the World Trade Organization (WTO) became the successor to GATT,...
The Gulf oil disaster its effect on the environment
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Oil the most precious natural resource with respect to the current economy. Rapid industrial Growth has contributed to fast depletion of oil resources and forced humanity to rethink its strategy with respect to the exploitation and consumption of it. Countries make huge investments to locate and...
The digital divide and its effects on work environments
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The nature and structure of an organization is often a hard thing to understand. It can be so flexible and elusive at times that it seems to be reminiscent of a unicorn or other mythical animal: much talked about and yet seldom seen. However, beneath every operating structure lies a model which...
Green marketing - How to integrate environment inside companies? - publié le 29/09/2010
Dissertation - 81 pages - Ecology & environment
Sustainable development has become an established phenomenon. Society is becoming increasingly environmental conscious, this has even been used as an electoral argument. Environmental protection is due to a movement introduced jointly by the population at large and the NGOs through a governmental...
Sensitivity based approach for congestion management in deregulated environment
Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
This paper proposes a sensitivity based approach for congestion management in deregulated environment. The congestion management problem is formulated to minimize the cost of re-dispatching the participating generators subject to operational and security constraints and considering the...
The key international management issues of present day global business environment
Thesis - 6 pages - Management
The management of international organizations is definitely different from the management of domestic organizations because an ‘organizations conducting business across borders must deal with the complexities of three different types of environment: domestic environment,...
The role of multinationals and the environment
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
A traditional corporation that operates within the bounds of a sovereign area is required to comply with the legal and social institutions of that particular area. In the case of multinational corporations however, the rules are slightly different. This is, in part, because the same economic and...
From cell phones to MP3 players: How rechargeable lithium-ion batteries affect the environment
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Lithium-ion batteries one the most popular types of batteries used today. They are lightweight, have a high-energy density, and are less toxic to the environment than any other battery (Jensen et al. 1999). However, they still offer some undesirable effects to the environment. When...
Self-expression with regard to the political environment: The case of Czechoslovakia
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
Throughout history, nations have subordinated others politically, culturally and economically. The ruling regime usually used people who spoke out as an example in order to stifle the rest of the population. The ruling regime would utilize such cases to exercise their power of intimidation. This...
Remote triggering based embedded servers for smart home environments
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
Smart home systems are expected to become key research area for ubiquitous and embedded system Computing in coming years. In this paper, a new scheme in smart home systems technology using Embedded server for providing intelligent control of home appliances is proposed. A wireless based Embedded...
Environment and international trade - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The warming of the planet and global climatic change has been the centre of heated debate for the last few years. The environmental problems, by the force of nature, somehow set themselves to the political agenda of the planet. In this paper I'd like to see if the concepts of trade and...
Critical evaluation of the international business environment
Case study - 5 pages - Management
The more closely the management of an international company can align its comparative advantage with a source or destination country's competitive advantage, the more conveniently it can achieve and maintain its overall business objectives. Management of international business demands consistent...
Green marketing - How to integrate environment inside companies?
Dissertation - 81 pages - Ecology & environment
Sustainable development has become an established phenomenon. Society is becoming increasingly environmental conscious, this has even been used as an electoral argument. Environmental protection is due to a movement introduced jointly by the population at large and the NGOs through a governmental...
Environmental toxicology on metallic mercury spill: A case in the versatile estrie and the steps to a successful decontamination
Thesis - 13 pages - Ecology & environment
In October 1996, the directions of public health in the Eastern Townships (Estrie-DSP) and a multipurpose area that have requested the collaboration of the Center for Toxicology of Quebec (CTQ) to the management of mercury spill metal in a class-chemistry laboratory. During our first...
Business environments focusing on demographic environment
Case study - 25 pages - Management
The important of demographic factor to business is clear from the fact that “management is men” and “market is people.” It is conventionally said that management is men, material, machinery, and money. Even if all the other Ms are excellent, it would not be of unless the men...
Danone's strategies and environment in 2009
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Danone is currently an inescapable world actor in the food-processing domain. The multinational is, at first, a complete example of strategic reorientation. Its original profession in 1966 was the production of glass bottles under the brand BSN. Besides, DANONE has always demonstrated its ability...
Uninhibited writing: The importance of a positive writing environment in the language arts classroom
Thesis - 8 pages - Educational studies
Writing is unique from other subject areas such math, or science because it so greatly relies on the facilitation of ideas rather than the relaying of constant factual information to the students by the teacher. How writing is taught is heavily dependent on teacher values. Whether it is a...
Idiosyncratic applications of data mining in E learning environments
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
Data Mining is a very popular and effective way of discovering new knowledge from large and complex data sets. Its benefits are its ability to gain deeper understanding of the patterns previously unseen using current available reporting capabilities. Internet education arose from traditional...
A study on the competitive environment in the retail market
Tutorials/exercises - 39 pages - Services marketing
The Indian retail industry is now beginning to evolve in the line with the transformation that has swept other large economies. There is a change a foot in Indian retail too, the liberalization of the consumer goods industry initiated in the mid-80's and accelerated through the 90's has begun to...
