...INTERNATIONAL FACTORS OF ENVIRONMENT Public administration operates in a global environment that requires a greater emphasis on cooperation among nations. Globalization has become a catch world for international development endeavors throughout the world. With globalization borders between regions and nations are no longer important. A final component of the general environment is actions of other countries or groups of countries that affect the organization. Governments may act to reserve a portion of their industries for domestic firms, or may subsidize particular types of businesses to make them more competitive in the international market. Some countries may have a culture or undergo a change in leadership that limits the ability of firms to participate in the country's economy. As with the other elements of the macroenvironment, such actions are not directed at any single company, but at many firms. ECONOMIC ASSOCIATIONS. One of the most recent joint efforts by governments to influence business practices was NAFTA. The agreement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico was intended to facilitate free trade between the three countries. The result has been a decrease in trade barriers between them, making it easier to transport resources and outputs across national boundaries. The move has been beneficial to many businesses, and probably to the economies of all three countries. In most economic associations, preference is also given to products from member countries...
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...Chapter 21 Summary/ Definitions Global industry is an industry in which the strategic positions of competitors in major geographic or national markets are fundamentally affected by their overall global positions. global firm is a firm that operates in more than one country and captures R&D, production, logistical, marketing, and financial advantages in its costs and reputation that are not available to purely domestic competitors. Deciding Whether to Go Abroad ■ The company discovers that some foreign markets present higher profit opportunities than the domestic market. ■ The company needs a larger customer base to achieve economies of scale. ■ The company wants to reduce its dependence on any one market. ■ Global firms offering better products or lower prices can attack the company’s domestic market. The company might want to counterattack these competitors in their home markets. ■ The company’s customers are going abroad and require international servicing. The company must weigh several risks: ■ The company might not understand foreign customer preferences and fail to offer a competitively attractive product. ■ The company might not understand the foreign country’s business culture or know how to deal effectively with foreign nationals. ■ The company might underestimate foreign regulations and incur unexpected costs. ■ The company might realize that it lacks managers with international experience. ■ The foreign country might change its commercial laws...
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...STRATEGIES ……………………………..… 2.1 Joint Venture 10-11 2.2 Acquisition 12-13 RECOMMENDATIONS …………………………………………………………... 14 REFERENCES …………………………………………………………..……….. 15-17 WORD COUNT Part 1: 2310 Part 2: 939 Total: 3249 WORD COUNT Part 1: 2310 Part 2: 939 Total: 3249 INTRODUCTION Peru is a dynamic, fast-growing South American economy poised for success in international markets. Some of Peru’s flagship export products are coffee and asparagus, but in recent years, it is an emerging producer of New World wines. Peru’s wine market supply is around 45 million litres, an increase of almost 10 million litres from five years ago (USDA, 2014). Peruvian climate is ideal for cultivation of grapes with strong character, where majority of its vineyards are concentrated on the Central coast. The wine industry is Peru has promising prospects for a foreign business investment, due to growing domestic consumption and global demand for high-quality and affordable wines. ………... PORTER’S NATIONAL DIAMOND ANALYSIS ………... 1.1 Factor Conditions 1.1.1 Physical Resources Andean soils are relatively young and are subject to erosion by water and winds because of the land gradient. The soil composition is loose sandy loam with high salinity (FAO, 2006). The coastal region of Peru is desert, intersected by valleys flowing from the Andes down to the sea. Peru has a per capita availability of 68,321m3 from 159...
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...* What Food and Beverage Serving and Related Workers Do * Food and beverage serving and related workers perform a variety of customer service, food preparation, and cleaning duties in restaurants, cafeterias, and other eating and drinking establishments. * Work Environment * Food and beverage serving and related workers are employed in restaurants, schools, hospitals, cafeterias, and other dining places. Work shifts often include early mornings, late evenings, weekends, and holidays. About half worked part time in 2012. * How to Become a Food and Beverage Serving or Related Worker * Most food and beverage serving and related workers learn their skills through short-term on-the-job training. No formal education or previous work experience is required. * Pay * The median hourly wage for food and beverage serving and related workers was $8.84 in May 2012. * Job Outlook * Employment of food and beverage serving and related workers is projected to grow 12 percent from 2012 to 2022, about as fast as the average for all occupations. Job opportunities in most dining establishments will be excellent, because many workers leave the occupation each year, resulting in numerous job openings. * Similar Occupations * Compare the job duties, education, job growth, and pay of food and beverage serving and related workers with similar occupations. * Food and Beverage Cruise Jobs (Part 1/3) Overview of the F&B Department on Cruise Ships * Renee Ruggero...
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...Product: For this project you may only select products that are made in Lebanon for export to one of the below mentioned countries. Examples of products that you may select for export include, but are not restricted to: Paper tissue products, detergents, canned foods, pickles, oils, soaps, clothing, shoes, industrial equipment, electrical appliances, textiles, agricultural produce, cement and construction materials, plastic products (cups, plates, chairs, ...), cereals, chocolate, biscuits, ground coffee, electric cables, Arak ... (Wines are not an option!) March 27, 2013 Countries where the Lebanese products would be introduced: Brazil - Greece - United Kingdom - China – India – USA – Canada – Germany March 27, 2013 Project Requirements: * Conduct a demographic, political, cultural, social and economic study of the country. April 10, 2013 * What are the governmental regulations imposed on entry into the market? April 17, 2013 * If there were severe regulations, what would be the ideal entry mode into the country? April 17, 2013 * List and explain the tariff and non-tariff barriers that are present in the host market. * Some of the non-tariff barriers might not be clearly documented or communicated. Try to explain the potential non-tariff barriers that might exist. May 8, 2013 * Research the available products similar to your offering. Are they competing products or substitutes? * Pay attention to the need(s) that your product...
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...& Hammer: baking--> fridge deodorant --> quell kitchen grease --> carpet/pet deodorant --> bath tub relaxant --> toothpaste --> ???? • More usage: Michelin: want French to drive more --> rate restaurants (best in south --Provence & Riviera) --> publish guidebooks with maps and sights along the way 2. DEFEND MARKET SHARE • decide where to defend • continuous innovation along Mktg Mix Position defense: - purely defensive not enough --> must take offensive counter-measure Eg: Coke --> multi segments of cola mkt --> enter wine market --> acquire fruit drink companies --> desalination equipment --> plastics Flanking defense: - guarding territory not enough - create outposts/flanks: --> protect weak front --> invasion base for counter-attack Eg: Hyvee: supermkt still dominant yet facing challenges from other retailers flanking strategy: strengthening via superstore concept --> • traditional foods - meat/canned/packaged • non-traditional --> ethnic foods, wines • prepared foods --> restaurant, take out, salad bar, bakery • non-food retailing --> clothings, garden store, • services: catering, party planning Classic...
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...Movie Family Care Plan Buffy Johnson NUR464 11/25/2012 Karen Jones MS, RN-BC, CNS Movie Family Care Plan This Client is Max Goldman. His age is not addressed in movie, he is a male, widowed, and white. The movie does not address his current health orientation. The family Genogram are deceased wife, living only son. The developmental stage this character is: Late Adulthood: 55 or 65 to Death Ego Development Outcome: Integrity vs. Despair Basic Strengths: Wisdom.( Erik Erikson's Developmental Stages, 1902-1994.) The family is distant at this time in life. The son is getting married and the father is trying to help plan his son’s first wedding. The father is independent and able to care for himself. His value’s are not addressed in the movie. His communication style is loud. The power structure is not addressed. The family function, the son is aable to talk to the father but will not tell him “No”. His best friend is the neighbor. His social placement is limited by only have one close friend. The reproductive function is not addressed. This characters coping function is to yell and go fishing. The economic class of the character is middle class. The medical insurance is not addressed. No physical provisions needed. The personal family physical characteristics are: the character resides at home by himself. He is able to care for himself. Privacy is not limited. No safety hazards addressed. The character lives in a older neighborhood and community...
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...York and Brooklyn in General. As illustrated below The community has high rate of foreign-born accounting almost half of the population. Because of the high number of immigrants, the poverty level is high (Community Health Profile 5). Other groups who live within the same Sunset Park enclave抯 spatial dimensions are as follows: Roughly, 42.6% of inhabitants of Sunset Park are Latino or Hispanic or, 36.2% are white, 29% are Asian (predominantly Chinese), 3.2% are African American or blacks, and 24.7% are other races (Community Health Profile 5). Health coverage is significant for access to health care. Inhabitants in this neighborhood are more likely not covered compared to residents in Brooklyn and New York City (approximately 18% vs. 26% vs. in NYC and Brooklyn) (Community Health Profile 2). In addition, another 16% of populace in Sunset Park lacks health insurance at some period during previous times, compared to 11% in NYC (Community Health Profile 5). The mortality rate in Sunset Park has reduced by over 15% in the past years, reflecting the rate decrease in New York City (Community Health Profile 2). Question 2; Sunset Park is a 20 minutes walking distance from my location. It is among the New York抯 concealed treasures.?Located in the...
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...Economics Basics: Introduction Economics may appear to be the study of complicated tables and charts, statistics and numbers, but, more specifically, it is the study of what constitutes rational human behavior in the endeavor to fulfill needs and wants. As an individual, for example, you face the problem of having only limited resources with which to fulfill your wants and needs, so, with your money, you must make certain choices. You'll probably spend part of your money on rent, electricity, and food. Then you might use the rest to go to the movies and/or buy a new pair of jeans. Economists, interested in the choices you make, inquire into why, for instance, you might chose to spend your money on a new DVD player instead of a replacing your old TV. They would want to know whether you would still buy a carton of cigarettes if prices increased by $2 per pack. The underlying essence of economics is trying to understand how both individuals and nations behave in response to certain material constraints. We can say then that economics, often referred to as the “dismal science,” is a study of certain aspects of society. Adam Smith (1723 - 1790), the “father of modern economics” and author of the famous book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, spawned the discipline of economics by trying to understand why some nations prospered while others lagged behind in poverty. Others after him also explored how a nation's allocation of resources affects its wealth...
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...Europaekonomprogrammet 180 hp Changes in the coffee culture - opportunities for multinationals coffee shops? C-uppsats i Företagsekonomi, Företagsekonomi 51-60 p Slutseminarium: 2007-06-07 Författare: Almqvist Emma Hruzova Barbara Olsson Kajsa Handledare: Max Lundberg Preface and acknowledgement We would like to thank our tutor Max Lundberg at the section of business and engineering at the University of Halmstad for his support and comments throughout the dissertation. We would also like to thank the personnel, managers and the barista for their answers to our questions. Finally we would like to thank the opponent group for their valuable criticism we would also like to take a moment and express our gratitude to the free software Skype that has enabled us to stay in touch despite the long distance between us. Målilla, Düsseldorf, Helsingborg 2007-05-28 Emma Almqvist Barbara Hruzova Kajsa Olsson Abstract The Swedish coffee culture is changing and bringing new business opportunities for multinational coffee shops. Our purpose with this dissertation was to describe the Swedish coffee culture and its changes. We wanted to increase our knowledge about how these changes can make Sweden a more attractive country for coffee shops, like Starbucks, wanting to establish in Sweden. We choose to use a qualitative method with an abductive approach. To gather the primary data we interviewed one barista and sent questionnaires to staff at different big coffee shops in Sweden. The interview...
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...Explore the strategic direction of the Food and Beverage Department within the construct of the overall strategy for the Radicor Hotel, Darling Harbour. Hao-wei Liu(Jessica) In every hotel, food and beverage department sometimes seems to be a subsidiary section in a hotel organization, yet its revenue is all in all and substantial. Radicor Hotel has its food and beverage revenue from seven areas, the promenade, the Abbey, lobby lounge, connections bar, the Deli, room service and mini bar. In Radicor Hotel Darling Harbour, the food and beverage revenue is moving in on the room revenue, in 2011 May, the former already overtook the later. Hotel Radicor key data shows that in the seven areas, restaurant Abbey happened to be the one that keep decreasing from 2009 to 2011. Compared the total revenue from 2009 and 2010, it dropped 30%, it was an unacceptable number for a manager, the following year, 2011, was not good enough, either. On the contrary, the other restaurant in the hotel, Deli, was doing excellent, its total revenue was continually increasing, from 2009 to 2010, it raised 24%, and did not stop rising. While other food and beverage fields’ performances were comparatively stable. Respect Every Negative Review To meet customers expectation is never an easy task to do, as Levitt noticed that with services, “You don’t know what you aren’t going to get until you don’t get it.” (Levitt, 1980) Hence good reputation always take years to build, however, it could fall into...
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...Langston Hughes was fully involved in the radicalism of the 1930s. His poetry from the period is strongly sympathetic toward the Soviet Union and the cause of international socialism. It shows a lack of patience with failure of American society to address either the racial oppression or the economic degradation and exploitation of the period both at home in the Depression and abroad in European colonialism. Hughes's career followed a varied path; he wrote prose fiction as well as poetry. He collaborated with visual artists and musicians. Within his poetry there is a great deal of variety as well. The Poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes, is a short twenty line poem that hass significant meaning in the short verse. Hughes uses an older female speaker to give advice to a son who is part of the younger generation. In the poem Hughes uses the device of an extended metaphor to describe the life of the mother. The extended metaphor compares the mother’s life to a staircase. The line “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” begins and ends the poem. With this line, Hughes quickly establishes for us that the speaker in the poem has not had an easy life. The concept of the crystal staircase gives the reader the impression of great wealth. Us the readers can indulge in inferring that it would be someone with supreme wealth and someone who did not have to work as hard as the speaker did. By using the imagery of a crystal staircase as the opposite of her staircase, we immediately...
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...dollar menu so that more affordable items are available. Furthermore, the company provides locally preferred menu items so that it doesn’t alienate itself from its communities (example: Restaurants in Hawaii offer pineapple instead of fries). Combined with convenient locations, optimized drive through service and longer store hours these factors should provide exceptional restaurant experiences. The company has also allocated $2.1B towards restaurant improvements for 2009 to modernize its operations. These funds are also to help continue its specialty coffee and beverage expansion. This investment is done with the expectation of serving more customers at a faster pace (including drive-thru) as well as being able to provide its new McCafé drinks and future specialty drinks. These improvements should add to customer experience and improve profit margins by taking less time to provide food and deliver the profitable specialty coffee drinks that have been proven very successful. McDonald’s also hopes to appeal to a larger customer base by continuing to expand its menu selection with new premium items such as the Southern Style Chicken Sandwich. Future product rollouts include smoothies, espresso drinks, frappes and some...
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...Drinking beer is a favorite past-time, whether for the variety of types, or the history, or just enjoying an ice-cold mug of brew with your friends. People want to know what makes a light lager light, and what makes a dark lager dark? Is it the ingredients in the brew or is it how it’s made? Light lagers only came about around the 60’s and 70’s because people wanted to drink beer without getting fat. Basically light lagers are made from using less hops and barley in the brewing process and watering down the lager, essentially creating a lighter color and less filling beer. Almost every beer is either ale or a lager. Lagers are fermented at colder temperatures than ales. They tend to have cleaner, crispier flavors and tamper-down aromas. When it comes to the color though, it comes down to the Maillard reaction. The Maillard reaction came around in the late 1800’s by the work of a French chemist known as Louis-Camille Maillard. This reaction is one of the most important reactions to know in how lager looks different from an amber or a stout beer. This reaction may also be known as “browning” in the brewing world. It’s basically heating sugar until the sugar compound is by itself and having amino acids react the reducing sugar. It is to be known that the reaction only happens at elevated temperatures but it can happen at room temperatures as well. Caramelization has similarities to the Maillard reaction as well which gives beer its final color. Color that a lager or ale is measured...
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...yisStarbucks Case Analysis: I. Problem Identification and Decision To Be Made Starbuck’s main decision needing to be made is to determine whether they should allocate $40 million to extra labor in order to better satisfy their customers. Starbuck’s believes that they have created a recession proof product; however, recent marketing research determined that is not the case. Customer satisfaction has been steadily declining and their customer’s perceptions on what determines excellent customer service has changed in recent years. This change in customer perceptions is due in part to the fact that their customer base has shifted to a younger, less educated clientele that hold different attitudes toward Starbucks than the previous customer base. The lack of marketing organization within Starbucks is surprising. They currently have no chief marketing officer and their marketing department functions as 3 different groups: analytical marketing research group, new product development group, and a promotional development marketing group. This has created a major problem for Starbucks because, as stated in the case, “We tend to be great at measuring things, at collecting market data, but we are not very disciplined when it comes to using this data to drive decision making.” This is a problem because although they have a vast amount of data about their customers, they don’t know how to turn it into money. One of the most obvious problems that I see with Starbucks is the...
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