Business Essays

The last thirty years have brought about immense changes in the Chinese economy.  After thousands of years of working within a strictly planned economy, the Chinese were finally told, by Deng Xiaoping, their Communist leader, that “to get rich is glorious” (De Mente, 1994, p. 39), upon the beginning of his economic reform process in 1978. 

It is clear that marketing is undergoing a revolution as a result of the explosion of information technology and the World Wide Web. This assignment will review the opportunities offered by e-commerce systems to enable organizations to enjoy more effective supply chain management and will cover basic elements of the new technological environment and the technological changes impact due to e-commerce

The rest of the paper is organised as follows: Section 2 provides profitability analysis of the company. Section 3 analyses the liquidity position of Mark and Spencer while section four, which is the industry for the four companies under study, section 4 focuses on the solvency position.

However people are not always price sensitive. As Kirk L. Wakefield and J. Jeffrey Inman in their study 'Situational price sensitivity: the role of consumption occasion, social context and income' state that the price sensitivity of people depends on various aspects like what they are shopping for, their budget constraints and the social context in which they are spending.

Globalization does harm some of the poor. Free trade and foreign direct investment may take jobs from workers in the advanced industrial economies and give them to cheaper workers in poor countries. For example, due to the NAFTA, American manufacturers can close old factories in the United States and open new ones in Mexico. 

The objective of this report is to describe how venues are selected, booked and managed for an event. Taking a 1920's themed wedding into consideration, this report describes the importance of selecting the perfect venue for a specific wedding and managing it perfectly so the participants of cross-cultures may enjoy and celebrate this ceremony.

The use of electronic devices has proliferated in recent decades, and proportionately, the quantity of electronic devices, such as PCs, mobile telephones and entertainment electronics that are disposed of, is growing rapidly throughout the world. In 2000, it was estimated that approximately 20 million PCs became obsolete. By 2010, this figure was to increase to over 100 million PCs.

It has set trends in the memory segments of the market and is a reputed brand for its quality and value for money. The initial struggle the company endured for a share of the emerging markets can be considered to have eventually paid off when we look at the markets and the level of competition in the 80's.

This study examines how countries choose on exchange rate regime to employ and how such decisions lead to trade and investment flow performance. The study also seeks to look at how different exchange rate regimes lead to disparity in inflation behavior and economic growth in countries alongside why some regimes fail.

This research will begin with the statement that today, there are more people who are in debt than fifty years ago. But this does not mean that it is “a little shameful” for people to be in debt.  Being in debt benefits both the lender and the borrower. The lender makes a living by lending money and in return earns interest income.

Therefore, any modeling of financial assets is directed towards the reduction of the uncertainties & risks involved with the value of an asset or the pricing agreements that govern the variation of the determinants of financial assets' evaluation. Therefore, any such evaluation is performed so s to strike a perfect balance between the non-risky assets and the non-risky assets.

The paper details the under-pricing of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) and the various models of under-pricing identified by the analysts. The paper gives detailed information about what is an Initial Public Offering (IPO); what the procedure for issuing IPOs; its advantages and disadvantages; pricing of IPOS etc.

Report of the Canadian Board of Marine Underwriters Association as cited by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade stated that approximately 83% of all cargo losses are preventable and about 45% of these preventable losses are caused by poor handling and storage. Added to that, the cargo manager must ensure that the stowing process is as cost-effective as possible.

It co-ordinates the resources of production and distribution of the goods and services; determines the nature of the total effort required to sell profitably the maximum production to the ultimate user" (cited Appleby, 1994, p.262). Another definition is proposed by Bennet (1995): "Marketing is the process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion, and distribution of ideas, goods, services, organizations, and events to create and maintain relationships that will satisfy individual and organizational objectives." (p.166).

The author states that the researchers were allowed the freedom to explore their wildest ideas and personal computing was changed forever. From the mouse to the laser printer and everything in between, they were able to come up with workable ideas, some stolen by others in the industry, with Xerox’s financial support.

However, the management is also certain that these problems, although not causing much trouble for the moment, but would somehow affect the future operation of the castle-especially the problems regarding customer accommodation. The management is also threatened by the problem of selecting the appropriate market segment which causing difficulty in engaging partnership with other business organization - especially with commercial business owners.

Its annual sales of 43.1 billion and profits of 2.235 billion make it the 59th largest corporation in the world, the biggest retailer in the U.K., and the best performing retailer in Europe (Fortune, 2006). This three-part paper analyses the extent to which Tesco's success can be attributed to a unique HRM system that supports its corporate strategies and combines the systematic discipline and execution characteristic of an 83-year old business with the entrepreneurial and liberal practices typical of a start-up business.

In this discussion, an analysis is drawn with research into the question, "is the protection of an organisation's asset reliant on understanding security risks based on identified methodology and analysis" There are two distinct and separate parts to this analysis.

The annual reports of three companies Johnson Matthey plc, Smith and Nephew plc and Smiths Group plc are judged according to the criteria. The Award is given to Johnson Matthey plc since the annual report of the Company fulfils the maximum criterias. One of the main purposes of annual reports is to provide information that is useful to their users (Day, 1986).

Therefore, it became necessary to seek a study which explores the myth and reality of KM and based on empirical study gives a unbiased and objective result based on empirical studies. The methodology chosen was the Kaplan and Norton Balanced Scorecard method which measures the degree of success of KM on FSA, the case study that has been taken up to validate or negate the hypothesis regarding success or failure of KM on business enterprises.

This study is primarily being undertaken to study the corporate social responsibility aspect in general and the manner in which retail sector is fulfilling its social responsibilities. During the study an effort would be made to study some of the reputed retail sector companies like Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Primark, Wal-Mart etc.

Seller's market will have a drastic impact all over the world. The Demand-supply gap in a buyers market is that demand will be lower than the supply for most parts. In a seller's market, demand will be higher than supply and recessions would indeed cause demand to fall. This is the real scenario that now exists in the U.S.A.

Kerala is a south Indian state along the Malabar coast. Kerala is a state with a distinctive culture, hospitable people, backwaters, wildlife, heritage, Ayurveda treatment, world-class accommodation, you name the component of tourism, and Kerala has it. Kerala is a state with immense tourism potential. It was rated as one of the top ten tourism destinations in the world.

The sum of the actual loan (capital) is paid in a lump sum at the end of the mortgage period and is normally accumulated by a regular saving arrangement. The monthly cost of this mortgage comes out to be the monthly interest plus the amount to be accumulated.

This report will give the reader an idea of how the restaurants in the Surrey Hampshire sector are performing. A survey of the restaurants was conducted in 2006 using a self-reporting mail survey and it is assumed that the results represent a random sampling.

Not, at all times are changes good for an organization. I was moved to three different processes in a span of 15 months in an attempt to bring about a change in the new processes. All this only resulted in frustration because I felt my opinions weren't being considered in terms of my expertise being utilized in a particular process.

This has translated to revenues of more than 2,000 million in 2004. The company is rapidly growing as evident in the sales increase of nearly 22%. In the industry, only Red Bull has experienced such unprecedented growth. Initially, the innovators of Red Bull observed that some individuals in Thailand drink some substance to keep their energy intact.

The author states that people’s lifestyle change can be seen through the change in culture. Culture can be defined as a way of life or people’s beliefs in commanding their everyday life. It is evident that people’s culture is tending to that of a global culture. This is because there has been so much interaction around the world.

The author states that strategy management will play an instrumental role in this research as strategies of various organizations will be studied and then a comprehensive analysis will be made on the same to find out if profit-maximization is the major driving force that runs these organizations.

Real estate prices are factored on the premise of land demand. There is so much property that can be created in a particular location and it is not possible to construct more. The rise or fall in property prices is then influenced by market contingencies such as the economic recession being faced the world over now. 

In the last decade and a half, the information technology revolution has shaken the very foundation of the old industrial and occupational order. The changes brought about by the IT revolution have redefined the rules of entrepreneurship and the faces of competition among firms globally. This has resulted in the creation of a global market place for a myriad of new goods.

A fixed charge is a charge that fastens to a specific specialized benefit, which implies that the borrower may perhaps not organize of the property without authorization from the lender. The Fixed charges presently may perhaps be formed over a varying group of assets.

Personal Evaluation of Project's Importance: First of all, one of the most important merits of this article is that it successfully manages to convince readers that the very appearance of Internet has indeed introduced a lot of change into our modern forms of communication.

Employee turnover occurs when employees voluntarily leave their jobs and replace themselves elsewhere. Turnover should not be confused with layoffs, which involves the termination of employees at the discretion of employer discretion in response to business condition i.e., reduced sales or a merger with another company.

I assume that risk managers estimate input parameters directly with historical data. Default probabilities are obtained from tabulated default rates, recovery rates from bond prices shortly after default, while the joint distribution of asset values is estimated from observed changes in asset values.

Complex spreadsheets models are usually prone to errors. Due to the lack of transparency of complex spreadsheet models, not only can it be difficult to communicate your model to others, but it can also be difficult to check for errors. As a result, complex spreadsheet models have a very high incidence of errors.  

It is interesting to note that although such public companies turned into private ones, it does not affect the financial figures or structures, as much as it would initiate changes in the ownership of the business and constitution of the Board of Directors of the newly constituted Company (Brigham & Ehrhardt, P.758).

In such a case it might have been quite difficult for other firms to devise substitutes in any reasonable amount of time. The new world of the web, of global capital, of footloose businesses and of rapid technical change is teeming with opportunity. It is also making the old political ideas look rather dated.

Tori Foxcroft in an exposition designated Nigeria's oil predicament engraves that “The largest oil purveyors in Nigeria, Imperial Dutch/Shell, manufacturers 1.25 million barrels that constitute Nigeria’s daily exports, and yet the industry is destined to malfunction owing to mounted sieges by local uprising groups”.

The individual is the concern of the Harvard model of the HRM. The model is chosen in order to see its application in reality; as the interviewee claims that the HRM function of ACME Engineering centers on the individual. While this model reflects the human side of the HR, its implications on establishing reciprocal obligations and mutuality in order for the HR to function both effectively to the organization and the individual are given consideration in the selection.

Kanter (1995:71) on his work of "Mastering Change" argues that success in the present day business is not for those companies that re-engineer the way they do things, or for those fixing the past. According to Kanter (1995) such an action will not constitute an adequate response.

The most daily work is right before the meal is served. This is not the most efficient way of doing things. The centralised production system separates the production of food from the service of food by place, time, or both place and time. The food is delivered to the area where it will be served in batches or pre-portioned.

Gradually as the shift occurred towards more service oriented industries supported by technological improvements, unions lost their traditional advantage because organizations were less reliant on the human force as the main source of producing goods and services.

Reportedly, Toyota continues to literally gobble up its competitor's car market segment in the United Kingdom and other European Union member countries is it Kaizen strategic management style. The imported Kaizen strategy is characterised by cars that are low priced, of high quality and efficiently produced.

In October 2000, Xerox Corporation, an icon of American innovation and dominator of the copier market for decades, was at great risk of going the way of once large and thriving companies that went bankrupt, a la Studebaker. Its share price fell below $4 from a high of a steep $64 just the previous year.

For all the theories formulated and models structured to attempt to explain the movement of market prices, there is no consistently accurate formula for it.  Similarly, no rational observation would constantly apply to the way investors’ behave in the course of the daily activities in the financial markets. 

According to Vascellaro Google thought of creating a mechanism that would be used by chief marketing officers so that they would be able to measure, compare and spend dollars across print, radio, television and the Internet. It was thought that by creating this Internet mechanism, it would eliminate the intermediaries.

The financial management team is at the forefront of improving cost performance (Symonds, 2005). Managing interest and currency risk profiles with derivatives is one way. It will continue to do well by keeping its financial reporting integrity, and by looking for innovative ways to utilize the cash generated worldwide.