The Swedish Political and Legal Systems
Étude de cas - 27 pages - Relations internationales
"From each according to ability, to each according to needs" - that was the radical basic doctrine of a welfare state in which all inhabitants would always be guaranteed basic economic security in all stages of life. Benefits highly subsidized childcare free public primary and...
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...
Gestion d'une force de vente: étude du groupe Merck
Dissertation - 17 pages - Management organisation
Dans une société de consommation en évolution constante, la force de vente doit devenir un outil qui s'adapte aux mutations et aux changements de comportement du consommateur, ceci afin de maintenir la compétitivité de l'entreprise et d'augmenter ses résultats. Le groupe MERCK, se...
Pat Buchanan and the "Paleoconservatives" in the USA
Mémoire - 100 pages - Sciences politiques
Politically speaking, the United States has always been known as a country of the two-party system. The main choice for the population is to vote either for the Democratic Party, or for the Republican Party. And yet, the United States overflows with all sorts of smaller parties and...
To what extent is Brazil and its development typical of a nation of the South?
Fiche - 5 pages - Histoire contemporaine : XIXe, XXe et XXIe
Document: Etude sur le Brésil, exemple d'un pays du Sud, Document an anglais (4 pages) Extrait: The term « South » which today designates the southern developing countries as opposed to the northern, more industrialized nations, finds its origins in the phrase « Third World » first used...
Country Study: Japan and Russia (29th March 2006)
Dissertation - 8 pages - Relations internationales
Japan and Russia are two important powers in the world, leaving quite close to each other. Its geographical position should be an asset in its relationship with Asia as a whole. Its territory is 17,075,200 km2 for a population of 143 millions according to the American CIA. Not only has...
The Sarbanes Oxley Act and its consequences
Mémoire - 82 pages - Stratégie
Enron and WorldCom are just few examples of the accounting scandals of the last years, but they are emblematic. Firstly, everyone heard about those two firms and theirs scandals. All Medias specialized or not, talked about it, even books were written. Secondly, we have to note the...
New Concepts and Trends in International R&D Organization, illustrated by the example of Nestlé
Étude de cas - 4 pages - Management organisation
Ce rapport, en anglais, résume et extrapole tout d'abord l'article '[i]New Concepts and Trends in International R&D Organization[/i]', écrit par Oliver Gassman et Maximilian von Zedwitz, qui ont développé un modèle évolutif de la structure de R&D des entreprises...
Strategic and operational opportunities and challenges that ERP systems may bring to an organisation
Dissertation - 4 pages - Stratégie
In the nineties, most of the large companies in the world have installed ERP (enterprise resource planning). Indeed with ERP system they are expecting to a decreasing total cost of ownership. They want to drop the risks as well, to increase control and transparency, to have rapid returns...
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...
The Impact of Innovation on the Internationalization of Small and Middle sized Enterprises
Dissertation - 19 pages - Marketing international
The present study offers to the reader a considerable bibliography review on internationalisation of small and middle-sized enterprises and raises a question in relation with the extent to which the variable innovation plays a main role in this issue. This paper was designed with...
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,...
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence: the complexity of characters and of love relationships
Mémoire - 15 pages - Littérature
In Women in Love, the emphasis is put on characters' love relationships, especially on the couples Ursula-Rupert, Gudrun-Gerald, Hermione-Rupert, and Loerke-Gudrun. Each pair has its own characterization and individuality. With this novel, Lawrence exposes to the reader the...
La Représentation de Las Vegas dans Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream - Hunter S. Thompson
Mémoire - 80 pages - Littérature
L'œuvre la plus connue est sûrement Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : a Savage Journey to the Heart of the Americain Dream, écrit par Hunter S. Thompson. Journaliste et romancier, il fut une figure de la contre-culture américaine des années soixante. Ce néologisme est attribué à...
Why did Roosevelt's and Truman's foreign policies, especially with regards to the USSR and Germany, differ
Fiche - 6 pages - Histoire contemporaine : XIXe, XXe et XXIe
Document: Dissertation d'Histoire générale en langue anglaise: Why did Roosevelt's and Truman's foreign policies, especially with regards to the USSR and Germany, differ from one another? (11 pages) Extrait: Wilson Miscamble's historical analysis From Roosevelt...
Performance management theory and implementation
Cours - 11 pages - Ressources humaines - GRH
English Human Resources Presentation about the Performance management theory and implementation.
The Mendicants' Missionary Activities and Strategies in Moldavia from the XIII th to the First Half of the XVth centur
Fiche - 22 pages - Histoire médiévale : Moyen-âge
Document: Preaching, Conversion, Ministering and Struggling against Hussites: The Mendicants' Missionary Activities and Strategies in Moldavia from the Thirteenth to the First Half of the Fifteenth Century. 17 pages Extrait: This study aims at a new analysis of the edited...
Reflections on democracy and the social pact
Fiche - 4 pages - Sciences politiques
Essay about democratic behaviour in the light of JJ rousseau's social pact and montesquieu's theories. application to the lebanese situation
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the African Court for Human and Peoples' Rights
Dissertation - 9 pages - Sciences politiques
The Inter American Court of Human Rights and the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights are two international courts that were inspired by the European Court of Human Rights. They are very recent courts, and are part of a whole system devoted to the protection of Human...
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...
Latin American Visual Arts, Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries
Dissertation - 7 pages - Sciences politiques
In order to identify specific allegories and attributes used in nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American visual arts, one first needs to come back to the original meaning of these two words. An allegory comes from the Greek words "other", and, "to speak in public"....
Business Policy and strategy: how to get ahead with tourism in Ireland
Étude de marché - 17 pages - Marchés étrangers
With the advancement of third generation marketing, leisure market such as tourism has grown. In this way, the analysis of this market seems to be essential. The concepts of tourism have been described during several conferences. Indeed, the WTO describes this phenomenon: “Tourism comprises...
Diplomatic relations between the US and the EU since 1989
Dissertation - 14 pages - Sciences politiques
Transatlantic relations between the USA and Europe went without saying for near two centuries. As a matter of fact, this close relation reflects a shared culture, fueled by successive waves of immigration of Europeans to “the land of plenty”. But, if these diplomatic bounds were...
Drawing from the cases of Taiwan and South Korea, assess whether or not capitalism and economic growth can develop in an authoritarian state
Dissertation - 15 pages - Sciences politiques
The actual economic system is based on capitalism. Nowdays, even communist states have decided to open their borders to accept the free market. Thus, in order to understand what is suggested by Capitalism it is useful to choose one defintion: that capitalism is a ??system in which private or...
The Cold War was a direct and inevitable consequence of the results of the World War 2
Dissertation - 9 pages - Relations internationales
The Second World War (1939-1945) was won by the Great Alliance in Europe on April 8, 1945 and in Asia in September 2, 1945. The triumph of the United States, Great Britain and the USSR was however not celebrated with a widespread and unconditional enthusiasm in the victorious...
Littoral and human activities: is cohabitation possible ?
Dissertation - 6 pages - Sciences politiques
The littoral (or coastal) areas are among the most dynamic parts of the globe. They concentrate today nearly two third of the world?s population, and researchers estimate that this proportion will keep on increasing, reaching third fourth of the world?s population within thirty years. The...
A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks : Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending - Canales, R., et Nanda, R. (2012) ; Stress tests and small business lending - Corté, K. R. et al (2020) - L'impact de la structure organisationnelle des banques sur les conditions de prêt aux petites entreprises
Fiche de lecture - 14 pages - Finance
D'un point de vue financier, le financement des PME a toujours constitué un goulot d'étranglement important. D'après l'INSEE (2020), les PME ont besoin de l'aide des banques pour obtenir, en début d'exercice, des lignes de crédits pour leurs besoins d'exploitation....
In what way can Hirschman's model of "Exit, voice and loyalty" be used to analyse international migration?
Dissertation - 6 pages - Sciences politiques
International migration is today a very broad subject. It interests social scientists, policy makers and economists who want to attract the best possible workers for their state. Hirschman has created a model “Exit, voice and loyalty” that analyses the choices that are...
The sacrifice and the origin of culture: how can the culture be derived from the ritual sacrifice?
Dissertation - 6 pages - Philosophie
Culture is the only thing that is proper to mankind. Other animals have no culture, or very little. We are different from other animals because we have the power to modify the nature. But culture is not only acting on nature, it's also the capacity to transmit our history to the next generation....
What do the fictional witch stories of Anglo-Saxon literature and film have to say about the real women of their time? - Introduction, plan détaillé et conclusion
Dissertation - 2 pages - Linguistique & langues
An evolving and mysterious concept, witchcraft is frequently present in anglo-Saxon literature and cinema. The phenomenon of witchcraft has captured the imagination of realists and authors alike. Beyond its representation, these stories of witchcraft shed light on the global...
