...* 1. Introduction Next PLC is a UK based public limited company. It fostered its name in 1986 from J Hepworth & Son which was a dowdy men's clothing chain established in Leeds in 1864 and became public in 1984 (Nexis® UK, 2009). Afterwards, the company bought Kendalls with 78-store women's clothing chain. George Davies who was hired by the chairman of retail group Storehouse Terence Conran positioned the company as a fashion type clothing provider with a mainstream price and came up with the word Next as up-to-date. Since then the company has expanded its business and bought Grattan (a British mail-order company) in 1986, retail chain Combined English Stores Group and the Dillons-Preedy chain of newsstands. In 1987 Next launched Childrenswear.. and it became one of the leading retail companies in the United Kingdom. Nowadays Next owns a significant number of retail shops in the UK and many franchise stores overseas (Nexis® UK 2009). The company specialises in stylish clothes, shoes and accessories for women, men, and children. Presently, the retail industry is going through many difficulties caused by a number of factors. These factors have both direct and indirect effects on Next PLC and led to a reduction in its market share. The goal of this study is to: 1. Examine Next´s relative decline in sales 2. Compare the strengths and weaknesses of the Next brand with its main competitors 3. Identify the benefits of Next clothing from the perspective of consumers ...
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...Jan 31, 2011 : Toys "R" Us offers to pay staffers $1m in back pay Fast Facts Headquarters Address One Geoffrey Way, Wayne, 07470, United States of America Telephone + 1 973 6173500 Fax + 1 973 6174006 Website www.toysrus.com Ticker Symbol, Stock Exchange N/A Number of Employees 70,000 Fiscal Year End February Revenue (in US$ million) 13,543.00 SWOT Analysis Strengths Weaknesses Efficient distribution capabilities Dependence on selected vendors Industry recognition Seasonal nature of the business Multiple channel selling strategy Wide geographic presence Opportunities Threats Growth of web-based store concept Increase in counterfeit products Increase in consumer spending in the US Increase in organized retail crime Strategic collaborations Jan 31, 2011 : Toys "R" Us offers to pay staffers $1m in back pay Jan 31, 2011 : Toys "R" Us offers to pay staffers $1m in back pay Toys "R" Us, Inc. - Company Overview Toys "R" Us, Inc. (Toys"R"Us) is a specialty retailer of toy and baby products. The company’s product portfolio includes children’s apparel, juvenile, learning, entertainment, core toy, parenting and seasonal products. These products are sold under various private labels such as Fast Lane, Imaginarium, Dream Dazzlers, You & Me, Just Like Home, FAO Schwartz, Toysrus and tabeo. Apart from in-store, the company sells merchandize online at various e-commerce sites including ...
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...Contents 1. Analyze Bob using the Maslow need hierarchy 2 2. Analyze Bob’s lack of motivation using equity theory and expectancy theory. 6 3. If you were Bob’s boss, what could you do to positively influence his motivation? 10 4. What are the implications of this case for employers hiring generation Xers? 12 5. References 15 1. Analyze Bob using the Maslow need hierarchy. Maslow’s needs hierarchy is one of the four early motivation theories conceptualized and realized by Abraham Maslow, it is also the best-known hierarchy of needs theory (Robbin & Coulter, 2012). He was a psychologist professor who articulated that every human has five levels of needs hierarchy which is namely Physiological, Safety, Social, Esteem and Self Actualization. (Robbin & Coulter, 2012) Maslow further claimed that each level in the needs hierarchy has to be significantly satisfied before the next level becomes dominant, he reiterates that it is a step by step process where individual move up each level ascending the needs pyramid. Besides the pyramid needs has been further separated into two tiers which is lower-order needs (basic needs) and higher order needs (social needs). Physiological and Safety are at the bottom of the tier and are classified as lower order needs whereas Social, Esteem and Self-actualization which is in the mid span of the tier till the top of the tier is considered as higher order needs. Bob life’s happenings relate directly to Maslow as he was focusing...
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...(ACCOUNTING) HONS HELP UNIVERSITY COLLEGE October 2011 i THE IMPACT OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION ON MANAGEMENT’S DECISION MAKING – VINAMILK CASE STUDY By TRUONG THUY CHUNG Graduation Project Submitted to the Department of Business Studies, HELP University College, in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Business (accounting) Hons OCTOBER 2011 ii DECLARATION I hereby declare that the graduation project is based on my original work except for quotations and citations which have been duly acknowledged. I also declare that it has not been previously or concurrently submitted for any other course/degree at HELP University College or other institutions. The word count is 10,036 words. _____________________ TRUONG THUY CHUNG Date: 17 October 2011 iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost, my sincere gratitude is dedicated to my supervisor – Ms Nguyen Van Anh. Thanks for your strong support, guidance, intuitive comments and also motivation through the process of completing this thesis. In addition, I would like to send my gratitude to the International School and HELP for giving me an opportunity to conduct my study in my favorite area. Thanks to all my family and friends for your supports, helps and motivation and made it possible for me to complete this study iv THE IMPACT OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION ON MANAGEMENT’S DECISION MAKING – VINAMILK CASE STUDY By TRUONG THUY CHUNG October 2011 Supervisor: Ms. Nguyen Van Anh...
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...(ACCOUNTING) HONS HELP UNIVERSITY COLLEGE October 2011 i THE IMPACT OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION ON MANAGEMENT’S DECISION MAKING – VINAMILK CASE STUDY By TRUONG THUY CHUNG Graduation Project Submitted to the Department of Business Studies, HELP University College, in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Business (accounting) Hons OCTOBER 2011 ii DECLARATION I hereby declare that the graduation project is based on my original work except for quotations and citations which have been duly acknowledged. I also declare that it has not been previously or concurrently submitted for any other course/degree at HELP University College or other institutions. The word count is 10,036 words. _____________________ TRUONG THUY CHUNG Date: 17 October 2011 iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost, my sincere gratitude is dedicated to my supervisor – Ms Nguyen Van Anh. Thanks for your strong support, guidance, intuitive comments and also motivation through the process of completing this thesis. In addition, I would like to send my gratitude to the International School and HELP for giving me an opportunity to conduct my study in my favorite area. Thanks to all my family and friends for your supports, helps and motivation and made it possible for me to complete this study iv THE IMPACT OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION ON MANAGEMENT’S DECISION MAKING – VINAMILK CASE STUDY By TRUONG THUY CHUNG October 2011 Supervisor: Ms. Nguyen Van Anh...
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...The Digital Footprint Analysis of FamilyFun Magazine: Examining the Importance of Social Media for Magazines Capstone research prepared for: NYU M.S. in Public Relations and Corporate Communication by Priyanka Mulimani, New York University Kerry Lee O‘Grady (Advisor) September 2013 Priyanka Mulimani Page 1 Abstract This paper researches the evolution of the magazine industry, its transitional phases and its adaptation to new technologies. The study examines the role of the Internet and social media for the magazine industry and the resulting impact on readership. It involves research and analysis of different social media elements and ways in which print magazines embrace them. The overall objective of this project is to examine the digital footprint of FamilyFun magazine and successfully devise a measurable social media strategy (with tactics) for it. The research highlights different ways present-day magazines use social media channels. The results of FamilyFun magazine‘s social media audit are tabulated in the presentation that follows. The presentation also includes the competitive analysis of FamilyFun magazine, which forms the basis for developing strategies and tactics for it. Additionally, the social media analysis of FamilyFun magazine provides an in-depth understanding of social media presence of parenthood magazines. Finally, based on the overall research and analysis, a list of best practices for effectively using different social media channels...
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...Levi: A Child Case Study Mallory Howresko Klamath Community College Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 2 DATA COLLECTION 2 Child Information 2 Family Background 2 Medical History 2 Current Functioning 2 ANALYSIS/SYNTHESIS 2 Strengths and Weaknesses 2 How to Improve on Weaknesses 2 Reflection 2 OBSERVATIONS TOOLS AND SAMPLES 2 Rating Scale 2 Running Record 2 Anecdotal Record 2 Rubric 2 Work Samples 2 INTRODUCTION The following case study is on a young preschool boy. The study took place over 56 days. The observations were done at two places, Frenchglen School and Rock Creek Ranch. The observer was able to see and document how the preschool years impact a child’s physical, mental and emotional development. DATA COLLECTION Child Information This case study is on a young 4 year old Caucasian boy. For the sake of confidentially I will refer to him as “Levi” throughout this study. Levi M. was born on March 15, 2010 in Helena, Montana. He is four years old with blonde hair, brown eyes and a slim build. He weighs approximately 40 pounds and is 38.5 inches tall. Levi is full of energy, talkative and curious. He is incredibly outgoing and always eager to show you what he can do or say. He has a tendency to be a tad bossy, but has a huge heart. He loves anything cowboy and the color blue. Levi is an only child and lives at home with his father and mother. Family Background He lives with his mother and father on a ranch in Oregon. Their house is part of Rock Creek...
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...UCD CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH WORKING PAPER SERIES 2011 Ireland’s Sovereign Debt Crisis Karl Whelan, University College Dublin WP11/09 May 2011 UCD SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN BELFIELD DUBLIN 4 Ireland’s Sovereign Debt Crisis Karl Whelan University College Dublin 1 May 2011 1 This paper was presented at a workshop on "Life in the Eurozone With or Without Sovereign Default?" that took place at the European University Institute in Florence on April 14, 2011. 1 1. Introduction Among the countries currently experiencing sovereign debt crises, Ireland’s case is perhaps the most dramatic. As recently as 2007, Ireland was seen by many as top of the European class in its economic achievements. Ireland had combined a long period of high economic growth and low unemployment with budget surpluses. The country appeared to be well placed to cope with any economic slowdown as it had a gross debtGDP ratio in 2007 of 25% and a sovereign wealth fund worth about €5000 a head. Fast forward four years and Ireland is shut out of sovereign debt markets and in an EUIMF adjustment programme. Its debt-GDP ratio has soared over 100% and the sovereign wealth fund is effectively gone. In this short paper, I provide a brief review of how this rapid change came about and discuss potential future developments in relation to Ireland’s sovereign debt situation. 2. The Rise and Fall of the Celtic Tiger It is now well known that Ireland’s famed “Celtic Tiger” ended...
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...The company overview Three ambitious friends, Richard, Adam and John graduated from Cambridge University into professional employment. In the summer of 1998, they spent six months testing various juice recipes on friends, trying to find a successful product. They spent £500 on fruit and tested their recipes on individuals at a London music festival, marking two bins ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and placing a sign next to them reading: “Do you think we should give up our jobs to make these?”. At the end of the day the yes bin was full. They gave up their jobs the following day and Innocent Drinks was formed (innocent, our story) The creation of this company was difficult for the three friends who had no money, they asked their friends for rich contacts and were introduced to Maurice Pinto, a wealthy American who lent them £250,000 after seeing the potential of their plan. After six years, Innocent operates from Fruit Towers in Shepherd’s Bush, an office block with faux-grass walls and trendy young staff. They produce 5 product ranges totalling 17 varieties and are the market leader in Smoothies in the UK (innocent). Innocent is a British beverage producer that makes and distributes a range of natural fruit drinks in the UK. The products of the company include smoothies, thickies, juices, and fruit-enhanced water. Innocent sells its products through coffee shops, grocery stores and department stores. Innocent smoothies contain over three-quarters of a pound of pure and fresh fruit...
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...and that any human action is the result of the consequences of the same action. If the consequences are bad, there is a high chance that the action will not be repeated; however if the consequences are good, the actions that led to it will become more probable.[6] Skinner called this the principle of reinforcement.[7] The use of reinforcement to strengthen behavior he called operant conditioning. As his main tool for studying operant conditioning Skinner The Skinners’ grave at Mount Auburn Cemetery invented the operant conditioning chamber, also known as the Skinner Box.[8] Skinner developed his own philosophy of science called radical behaviorism,[9] and founded a school of experimental research psychology—the experimental analysis of behavior. His analysis of human behavior culminated in his work Verbal Behavior, as well as his philosophical manifesto Walden Two, both of which still stimulate considerable experimental research and clinical application.[10] Contemporary academia considers Skinner a pioneer of modern behaviorism along with John B. Watson and Ivan Pavlov. Skinner emphasized rate of response as a dependent variable in psychological research. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure response rate as part of his highly influential work on schedules of reinforcement.[11][12] In a June 2002 survey, Skinner was listed as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century.[13] He was a prolific author who published 21 books and 180 articles.[14][15] Alpha Fraternity...
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...The Burberry business model: creating an international luxury fashion brand Christopher M. Moore and Grete Birtwistle Introduction The viability, or otherwise, of a fashion brand is dependent upon the efficacy and appropriateness of the decisions of those responsible for its management. There are numerous examples of brands that have prospered and/or withered as a result of the business models that management have deployed in order to achieve their strategic (or not so strategic) objectives. Gucci, the Italian luxury brand is a case in point. In the 1950s the brand enjoyed significant success. It was the status brand of choice for Hollywood film stars and European royalty. However, just over a generation later, the brand suffered a loss of cachet and the once profitable business made significant losses. The adoption of a business strategy (which sacrificed management control over product development and distribution in favour of seemingly indiscriminate licensing agreements), undermined the credibility of Gucci as an exclusive and aspirational fashion brand (Jackson and Haird, 2003). Tom Ford’s arrest of Gucci’s decline in the 1990s has been well documented (Moore and Fernie, 2004), and has been attributed to his adoption of a business model that maximised internal controls with respect to product sourcing, brand communications and distribution. Ford’s legacy has been the implementation of an integrative business model which maximised “back-end synergies” in relation to logistics...
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...Case studies Acknowledgements We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: ‘Getting to know you’ (Acreman, S. and Pegram, B.), originally published in Research Magazine, November 1999, pp. 36–41. In some instances we have been unable to trace the owners of copyright material, and we would appreciate any information that would enable us to do so. Case 1 Nike sprints ahead of the competition? Nike was founded by Bill Bowerman, the legendary University of Oregon track and field coach, and Phil Knight, a University of Oregon business student and middle-distance runner under Bowerman. The partnership began in 1962 as Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS); their first-year sales totalled $8,000. In 1972 BRS changed its name to Nike, named after the Greek winged goddess of victory. Nike employs 22,000 people worldwide, from Nike World Headquarters in Oregon. With 1,500 employees working at the Laakdal Customer Service Centre, Belgium has the most employees of any EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) country. The Netherlands is a close second, with 1,200 employees working at the European HQ in Hilversum. Nike is the number one athletic footwear company in the US and the number two American brand in terms of name recognition among overseas consumers, a status shared with IBM and second only to Coca-Cola. This high degree of recognition is probably one of the main reasons Nike has been so immensely successful. For the 2001 fiscal year sales...
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...Case studies Acknowledgements We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: ‘Getting to know you’ (Acreman, S. and Pegram, B.), originally published in Research Magazine, November 1999, pp. 36–41. In some instances we have been unable to trace the owners of copyright material, and we would appreciate any information that would enable us to do so. Case 1 Nike sprints ahead of the competition? Nike was founded by Bill Bowerman, the legendary University of Oregon track and field coach, and Phil Knight, a University of Oregon business student and middle-distance runner under Bowerman. The partnership began in 1962 as Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS); their first-year sales totalled $8,000. In 1972 BRS changed its name to Nike, named after the Greek winged goddess of victory. Nike employs 22,000 people worldwide, from Nike World Headquarters in Oregon. With 1,500 employees working at the Laakdal Customer Service Centre, Belgium has the most employees of any EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) country. The Netherlands is a close second, with 1,200 employees working at the European HQ in Hilversum. Nike is the number one athletic footwear company in the US and the number two American brand in terms of name recognition among overseas consumers, a status shared with IBM and second only to Coca-Cola. This high degree of recognition is probably one of the main reasons Nike has been so immensely successful. For the 2001 fiscal year sales...
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...Introduction The Burberry business model: creating an international luxury fashion brand Christopher M. Moore and Grete Birtwistle The authors Christopher M. Moore is the Director for the Glasgow Centre for Retailing and Grete Birtwistle is Head of the Division of Marketing, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK. Keywords Premier brands, Brand management, Fashion Abstract The performance of the British fashion brand Burberry has been determined largely by the adoption of business models which, on occasion, have been detrimental to the company’s performance. For the financial year ending 31 March 1998, Burberry saw its annual profits drop from £62m to £25m, leading financial analysts to describe it as “an outdated business with a fashion cachet of almost zero”. However, from 1997, at the instigation of a newly appointed chief executive, Rose Marie Bravo, Burberry has radically re-aligned its business model and has enjoyed, as a result, significant improvements in its business performance. Drawing from extensive documentation that was published by Burberry in support of their initial public offering (IPO), this paper will provide a review of the history of Burberry; evaluate Burberry’s re-positioning strategy as defined by the firm in their IPO prospectus; and critically delineate Burberry’s current business model. Electronic access The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister The...
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...felt that "tempered radicalism" was a concept that had been waiting to be invented. Meyerson and Scully, in my view, have grasped an important idea and have written about it in a careful and an illuminating way. It's one of those papers, I suspect; that some people will react to by thinking: "I wish I had written that!" Further, I can see others I know well in the field as fitting'the description of the tempered radical, at least in some circumstances and at different times. The reviewers, while suggesting changes, as reviewers do, were also very taken with the paper. It is intellectually interesting, and evocative. It provides us with a perspective on organizational issues that is typically glossed. It opens an arena for organizational analysis that is missed in r most theoretical frameworks. Tempered radicals, Meyerson and Scully argue, are individuals who identify with and are committed to their organizations and also to a cause, community or ideology that is fundamentally different from, and possibly at odds with, the dominant culture of their organization. Their radicalism stimulates them to challenge the status quo. Their temperedness reflects the way they have been toughened by challenges, angered by what they see as injustices or ineffectiveness, and inclined to seek moderation in their interactions with members closer to the centre of organizational values and orientations. The paper is a scholarly treatment of a complex concept. It is radical in its charge to us to see...
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