Evolutions in the music industry. Case study an analysis of Spotify
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Informatique
Since 2000, the increasing popularity of Internet was one of the main reasons of CD music sales which have been decreasing from 700 million sales in 2000, to less than 200 million for the year 2012. This decrease can also explain the recent collapse of HMV. The music industry is going through a...
Les formes verbales en anglais
Fiche - 3 pages - Linguistique & langues
Ce document présente de manière synthétique les différentes conjugaisons et formes verbales en anglais. Idéal pour ceux qui doivent réviser leurs conjugaisons, il permet aussi de mieux comprendre le fonctionnement du système verbal anglais, et de pointer les principales difficultés rencontrées...
The USA, the UK, the stock exchange
Fiche - 4 pages - Philosophie
Document: The USA, the UK, the stock exchange, fiche de 4 pages en anglais Extrait: The President is elected by great electors. Each state have to appoint (= nommer) its own great electors. There are votes to decide which party will be represented at Washington. Each state has its own system....
Cours d'anglais et exercices corrigés - Le quasi-certain avec MUST et le quasi-certain négatif avec CAN'T et COULDN'T
Cours - 2 pages - Linguistique & langues
Avec must, l'énonciateur est quasiment sûr de ce qu'il avance. Must se traduit très souvent par « devoir ». Lorsque le quasi-certain concerne le passé, on emploie must + have + participe passé.
Utilising case studies of your choice assess the extent to which private and public measures can create sustainable tourism at destinations
Dissertation - 8 pages - Écologie et environnement
Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of its fastest growing economic sectors. It has a multitude of impacts, both positive and negative, on people's lives and on the environment. Sustainable tourism, as defined by the WWF is: “tourism and associated...
Gender Issues in the Contemporary Context: Fertility and declining birth rates
Dissertation - 5 pages - Relations internationales
One issue closely related to women is today at the heart of the public debate in the majority of the industrialized countries: the problem of declining birth rates. Reports, books, articles have been flourishing on the question since the past few years: while people used to worry about the...
Ethnic solidarity in France
Dissertation - 8 pages - Sciences politiques
Many foreign observers have seen the recent uprising of the French suburbs as an ethnic phenomenon. In France, Le Pen's only shared this point of view. Issues like ethnicity or races are taboo in the Republican France, which make it even more difficult to build a paper on the topic. Indeed, few...
Orange Schweppes Business Strategy
Étude de cas - 32 pages - Stratégie
The French market of non alcoholic refreshing beverages has less been affected by the economic crisis. In 2009, the market generated in France a turnover of 3 billion Euros (an increase by 3.87% in value). This sector is strongly supported by store brands whose sales have increased by 8.59% in...
Inmigrants and ethnic minorities
Dissertation - 17 pages - Sciences politiques
In March 2006, the Netherlandish Minister of Immigration Rita Verdonk took tough measures towards immigrants. Paradoxically, according to the Observatory of inequalities, the Netherlands is a country where minorities are the most represented in the Parliament. This example shows that immigrants...
Project Management assignment on CPM
Dissertation - 12 pages - Informatique
Demand at the Winder Widget Company (W2C) has recently decreased due to the economic slowdown. In response, the managers of W2C have shut down one of their production lines. However, management is concerned about how long it would take to restart the line when (and if) demand increases. They have...
Professional management skills: Boeing case
Étude de cas - 7 pages - Stratégie
This case is about the civil aerospace industry which have a duopolistic market in the 110 seat-plus, where the two actors are Boeing and Airbus. It is showing us that Boeing was always the leader on each market: 70.7% of the Asian market, 67.2% of the U.S. market, 56.9% of the Latin America...
Multimedia Computing and Applications Assignment
Dissertation - 10 pages - Informatique
Multimedia assignment made for a Multimedia Computing and Applications course: it deals with the Braille display, sampling, the large-format poster, the uniquely decodable non-prefix code, and sabotaging LZW. Five exercices made on these different topics. EXERCICES ARE THE FOLLOWINGS: 1....
The Least Developped Countries and the WTO
Dissertation - 10 pages - Économie générale
The WTO allows its members to negotiate multilateral trade agreements following two main guiding principles, that is to say, liberalism and symmetry. On the one hand, liberalism implies that the use of tariffs and quotas are restricted, since they are an obstacle to free trade which is itself...
Risks assessment in automobile industry - Renault entry in the US market
Étude de cas - 9 pages - Marketing automobile
The Renault Corporation was founded in 1899 and quickly became famous in motor racing. The Renault factories adopted mass production techniques in 1905 and Taylorism in 1913. Then, during the First World War, the company turned out trucks, stretchers, ambulances, shells and even the famous FT17...
Analyse financière : Quicksilver Inc. Rapport annuel 2005
Analyse financière - 19 pages - Finance
Analysing financial statements : QUICKSILVER Inc. Annual report 2005 (titre original) The company began its business in 1976 as a California company producing boardshorts for surfers in the United States under a licence agreement with the Quicksilver brand founders in Australia. In the 80's the...
"It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world" (Robert Kagan, Power and Weakness). Discuss.
Dissertation - 12 pages - Relations internationales
This essay is organized in two sections. The first part proposes to analyze the particular context for such a statement, Kagan's view on the relationship between the United States and Europe, the power gap and the marks of the divide Kagan see between the trans-Atlantic partners. The final...
Intercultural management: L´individu, le groupe, les conflits
Dissertation - 8 pages - Management organisation
Today, in every organization, conflicts occur. It is very important to solve its, in order to create a better work atmosphere. Moreover, the employees have a lot of personal issues that are or not related to their work. It is a priority to communicate with them in order to increase their...
Gestion des achats : les meilleures pratiques de communication promotionnelle à l'intention des fournisseurs
Dissertation - 14 pages - Management organisation
During the two past decades there were many changes in the global scenario, high technologies were introduced, a higher competitive world made companies look for markets abroad, and ways of management had to adapt to this new way of making business. Theses changes reached the purchasing...
L'éthique du conséquentialisme et l'éthique de la vertu dans le domaine de l'industrie florale
Étude de cas - 19 pages - Stratégie
Consequentialism ethic and ethic of virtue relative to the flowers industry (titre original) First of all “a consequentialist [doesn't define if an] act is right or wrong in itself because the rightness or wrongness of an act is determined by its outcome. Utilitarianism (the most popular...
Ethical tourism - Key Islands
Écriture d'invention - 1 pages - Linguistique & langues
Cette expression orale d'anglais vise à raconter un voyage de quelques jours en tant que touriste responsable, avec pour contrainte l'utilisation de Have + verbe -ed ou irréguliers.
The rescue plan of EUROTUNNEL
Étude de cas - 14 pages - Finance
Eurotunnel plc (in the UK) and Eurotunnel SA (in France) make up the Eurotunnel Group, founded in August 1986, which manages and operates the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France. It operates the car shuttle and earns revenue on other trains (freight by EWS and SNCF and passenger service by...
Small firms in international marketing: Bringing the franchise Sushi Shop to the UK market
Étude de marché - 8 pages - Brand management
Sushi Shop is a French-based sushi restaurant franchise and delivery service that provides its customers with the highest quality of sushi and other fine contemporary Japanese cuisine dishes. Established in 1998, this small firm now has 97 locations in Europe, 1 in New York City, and is...
International Political Theory: The rules of international organisations and the activism of international bureaucrats significantly affect bargaining between states
Dissertation - 4 pages - Sciences politiques
An international organization is an organisation that is supposed to promote cooperation and policy coordination. The term is usually reserved for intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations, the European Union, the World Bank, or the World Trade Organization, with sovereign states...
La perte d'influence de la Commission européenne sur le Conseil a-t-elle influencé le processus d'intégration?
Dissertation - 11 pages - Sciences politiques
The analysis of the institutional system of the European community is characterised by the absence of power separation in the sense of the classical political theory. The coexistence of different institutions doesn't allow the traditional dichotomy between executive and legislative powers. This...
Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Fiche - 4 pages - Littérature
Can human society be held responsible for every man's evils? According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his Discourse of the Origin of Inequality, the civilizing society has done nothing but enslaving people to needs, vices, or tyrants. But how could it be possible, as civilization has brought...
Define what you understand by culture, discuss the various types of culture identified by Charles Handy and address the implications for organisational design
Dissertation - 10 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
Culture has always been a main element for persons. Each country, each company and son on have its own culture form and that for a long time ago. Culture is the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented, discovered and developed in learning to cope with its problem of external...
Fusions et acquisitions - opportunities and objectives to be established for success
Dissertation - 10 pages - Finance
David Kuchen began to work in an investment banking division in a Canadian bank. As he likes challenges and wants to build his own business, he created and ran his business in investment banking. But the company did not have the size that Kuchen wished. So he studied marketing, strategy and...
Diversity in the workplace
Dissertation - 14 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
Diversity is a topic of both considerable interest and debate for nearly all companies in existence today. It is rapidly gaining ground as an incomparable asset in business, driven by the demand for new customer-focused products, the desire to reach global markets and the need to tap a diverse...
Rapport : création de "la marque Ecosse"
Étude de marché - 11 pages - Marketing tourisme
The tourism market has never been so competitive. Ten top destinations appropriate 70% of international tourists (Pike, 2004). Whether they want to keep or to reach a leading position on the tourism market, destinations will have to fight. Tourism in Scotland is worth 4.5bn total GDP, and...
British Airways
Étude de cas - 8 pages - Stratégie
BA is one of the world's largest international airlines, providing travellers with a broad network to/from the UK and a global service for premium travellers in cooperation with one world alliance partners. The company expanded rapidly in the 1990s, which led to overcapacity, lower fares and...
