...Introduction Communication styles and business norms vary from country to country. When a company tries to globalize their business and break into a foreign market, the firm must take many precautions in order to adhere to the country’s many social and cultural rules. In order to succeed in any foreign industry, extensive research is required, possibly in the form of an ethnographic study. Biznes (Business) Consulting will give a presentation to the board of a Canadian construction company who is considering expansion into the Polish market. The report is designed to give the Canadian construction company a detailed assessment of the differing communication styles and business norms in Poland compared to those in the Canadian market. To begin this assessment of the Polish communication styles and examination of working norms, Biznes Consulting group will analyze how to conduct a business meeting in Poland. This will include the basic “do’s and don’ts”, business etiquette, time frames and dress or attire. Next a complete external and internal analysis will be presented. A STEEP analysis will be studied and human resource management for Poland will be discussed in detail. Following the external and internal analyses, an interpretation of the cultural norms in Canada vs Poland will be examined in the form of a cultural comparison. The cultural comparison is significant in determining family closeness, trust issues, motivation behind employees, issues related to leadership...
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...History and Economy of the Czech Republic This paper is on the Czech Republic economy. I will first introduce the country with detailed information on the Czech history from past to present. Then, I will talk about their economy during communism and post-communism. This will show how the country and its economy has changed dramatically during and after communism. Transitioning from that, later on in this paper will exemplifies the Czech Republic economy in exquisite details from the past 25 years to now; post-communism. The term "Czech" refers to the cultural characteristics of the Czech-speaking inhabitants of the Czech Republic, which includes Bohemia; the larger western part. The republic is bounded by Poland on the north, Germany on the northwest and southwest, Austria on the south, and the Slovak Republic on the east. The crowning of the first Bohemian king took place in 1085. And the first university in central Europe was founded in Prague in 1348. The development of Czech national culture came to a temporary halt in 1620, when the Czech's social classes possessing political rights were defeated in the Battle of White Mountain. The Bohemian kingdom lost its independence, and its provinces were declared the hereditary property of the Hapsburgs. A period referred to as "the darkness" lasted until the end of the eighteenth century, when the Czech national revival the formation of the modern Czech nation began. The area of today’s Czech Republic used to be an industrial Centre...
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...International Businesses Strategy of IKEA –Activities of the multinational furniture retailer Seminar paper in “Strategy of International Business” University of Economics Bratislava 2008/2009 Katarzyna Gawor Sona Halasova Friedemann Polzin Table of Contents IKEA – global strategy............................................................................................................2 History................................................................................................................................2 IKEA corporate structure...................................................................................................3 The IKEA Group............................................................................................................3 Inter IKEA Systems B.V. ..............................................................................................5 IKEA Stores...................................................................................................................5 Business strategy...............................................................................................................5 Mission...........................................................................................................................5 Target group..................................................................................................................6 Organizational structure........................................................
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...Introduction Germany officially the Federal Republic of Germany is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe, comprising of 16 independent states General features Geography Germany is in Western and Central Europe, bordering Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, Austria and Switzerland in the south, France and Luxembourg in the south-west, and Belgium and the Netherlands in the north-west. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Significant natural resources are iron ore, coal, potash, timber, lignite, uranium, copper, natural gas, salt, nickel, arable land and water. By European standards it has many natural resources, including lignite, anthracite, timber, peat, iron ore and hydroelectric power. However, Germany has very few natural gas or petroleum deposits and so it must import large amounts of them. (Statistic number: the total natural gas imported in cubic meters (cu m)- imports: 99.63 billion cu m (Source: CIA World Fact book information in this page is accurate as of January 9, 2012) Weather Germany has a largely temperate seasonal climate. The east has a more continental climate; winters can be very cold and summers very warm, and long dry periods are frequent. Central and southern Germany are transition regions which vary from moderately oceanic to continental. In addition to the maritime and continental climates that predominate over most of the country, the Alpine regions in the...
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...Doing Business in Germany September 12, 2015 Doing Business in Germany Conducting business abroad in Germany introduces a different culture and different practices. Before committing to doing business in Germany it is important to consider factors such as differences in location, language, culture, meeting etiquette, negotiation styles and business protocol. If these considerations are addressed before hand a business endeavor in Germany will have a better chance of succeeding (Varner & Beamer, 2011). Germany is a federal republic located in central Europe. Germany is the eighth largest country in Europe after Russia, Turkey, the Ukraine, France, Spain, Sweden, and Norway. It is located centrally on the European continent and borders nine other countries: Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Poland (Chow, 2015). With the biggest population of all the European Union countries, Germany’s population density is one of the highest in all of Europe at over 230 persons per square kilometer. The UK, Netherlands, and Belgium are the only countries in Europe with a higher population density (Chisolm, 2011). The official language of Germany is German. As would be expected, the majority of German citizens speak German (over 100 million people). Some minority languages in Germany include Danish, Sorbian, Frisian, and Romany. Turkish, Kurdish, Polish, the Balkan languages, and Russian are the most commonly spoken...
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...Contents Entering the retail sector in Central Europe Tesco’s expansion into the Czech Republic International Marketing 2006 Séverine Delaporte Ilona Juřenová Lizhu Ren David Towers MIB 21a Entering the retail sector in Central Europe 0 of 25 Contents 1 Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Contents Abstract Introduction to the Central and Eastern European market Trends in the retail industry 4.1 Retail in CEE countries 4.2 Reasons to expand retail abroad 4.3 CEE countries – retailers’ paradise Tesco’s market entry strategy 5.1 Entry modes 5.2 Tesco’s marketing strategy in the Czech Republic 5.2.1 Focusing on customers needs and wants without losing identity 5.2.2 A multi-format strategy: an adapted distribution policy 5.2.3 Local products that fit customers’ tastes 5.2.4 Aggressive pricing strategy 5.2.5 Adapted communication 5.2.6 Adding value through service 5.2.7 Adapting to changes in the macro-environment 5.3 Evaluation of Tesco’s success within the Czech Republic 5.3.1 The Czech success 5.3.2 Problems within the Czech market 5.3.3 The future within the Czech Republic 5.4 Consumer perceptions of Tesco from the UK and the Czech Republic Conclusion Appendix 7.1 Czech Republic Questionnaires 7.2 UK Questionnaires Bibliography Entering the retail sector in Central Europe 1 2 3 5 5 5 6 8 8 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 12 13 13 14 15 15 17 18 18 21 23 1 of 25 Abstract 2 ...
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...in more than 400 cities on five continents. Franchises are only conceded in countries where corporate properties can not be foreign-owned (in some Middle Eastern countries, for example). Most manufacturing is now in low labour cost countries, mainly in Morocco, China, and Turkey, although much production continues in Spain and Portugal, particularly for its Zara brand. In addition, Inditex has a factory for shoe design, production and distribution in the town of Elche, on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. GAP is an American multinational clothing and accessories retailer, headquartered in San Francisco ,California.The GAP is made up about 3,100 company-operated stores and over 300 franchise stores. The companies brands are: Gap,Banana Republic,Old navy,Piperlime,Athleta and INTERMIX. Donald and Doris Fisher opened the first Gap store on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco on August 21, 1969; its merchandise consisted of Levi's and LP records. Most of their clothing is produced in India and Sri Lanka. 2.Comparative analysis of their mission statements INDITEX-mission statement * High priority on the customer combined with a high degree of vertical integration across all the fashion production process: the design, the manufacture, logistics and the sale. *...
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...term of organistion and how it is important in forming a business. Moreover, it also describes the organisational behaviour, which means how people behave in an organisation, and why it involves a major role of within the organisation in general. Furthermore, why organisation is essential for every business and how it can make the company successful in the business area. What is more, it expresses why people need to study organisational behaviour and how it is important to a certain extent for every business. In addition to this factor, it compares and contrasts different organisational structures and cultures which have a great impact on culture as well as performance. This essay concludes by presenting how different types of leadership styles stand in both organisations and their effectivness. Marks & Spencer's background The company of Marks & Spencer is a well-known retail store in the UK with 21million people visiting each week. The profitable UK company, Marks & Spencer, operates over 600 stores in the United Kingdom employing over 75,000 people in the UK and abroad with the support of 2,000 suppliers globally. The largest store is located at Marble Arch on London's Oxford Street. Moreover, stores range from the large out of town and flagship stores of over 100,000sq ft, to simply food stores of around 7,000 sq ft. It is true that Marks & Spencer is a number one provider of womenswear and lingerie in the UK and market share is significantly growing in menswear and kidswear...
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...Written Assignment –Chipotle Marketing Plan International Marketing-BUS 403 February 11, 2015 Introduction: | Chipotle first opened in Denver in 1993 with a simple idea behind it, “food served fast didn’t have to be “fast-food” experience”, (Chipotle Mexican Grill, 2015). Prior to CEO Steve Ellis opening the restaurant chain, he himself was a chef. Since its creation, Chipotle has become a phenomenon in the restaurant industry and has experienced tremendous growth since it went public in 2006 with over 1,600 restaurants in Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and France, with the majority located in the United States (Chipotle Mexican Grill, 2015). . The company focus is on using high-quality raw ingredients, (Chipotle Mexican Grill, 2015). Using fresh ingredients is the groundwork of the menu, but they also believe fresh is not enough any longer, (Chipotle Mexican Grill, 2015). Chipotle wants to know the sources for all of the ingredients in order to serve the freshest tasting food and to be mindful of the environmental and public impact of the business, (Chipotle Mexican Grill, 2015). Chipotle refers to this as “food with integrity”, (Chipotle Mexican Grill, 2015). Another thing that set’s Chipotle aside from the others in the industry is they practice classic cooking methods and the stores are of distinctive interiors that are found more in the world of fine-dining, not the typical fast-food, (Chipotle Mexican Grill, 2015). The Chipotle experience begins...
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...Fashion and Its Multi-Cultural Facets Critical Issues Series Editors Dr Robert Fisher Lisa Howard Dr Ken Monteith Advisory Board Karl Spracklen Katarzyna Bronk Jo Chipperfield Ann-Marie Cook Peter Mario Kreuter S Ram Vemuri Simon Bacon Stephen Morris John Parry Ana Borlescu Peter Twohig Kenneth Wilson John Hochheimer A Critical Issues research and publications project. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ The Ethos Hub ‘Fashion’ 2014 Fashion and Its Multi-Cultural Facets Edited by Patricia Hunt-Hurst and Sabrina Ramsamy-Iranah Inter-Disciplinary Press Oxford, United Kingdom © Inter-Disciplinary Press 2014 http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ The Inter-Disciplinary Press is part of Inter-Disciplinary.Net – a global network for research and publishing. The Inter-Disciplinary Press aims to promote and encourage the kind of work which is collaborative, innovative, imaginative, and which provides an exemplar for inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission of Inter-Disciplinary Press. Inter-Disciplinary Press, Priory House, 149B Wroslyn Road, Freeland, Oxfordshire. OX29 8HR, United Kingdom. +44 (0)1993 882087 ISBN: 978-1-84888-309-3 First published in the United Kingdom in eBook format in 2014. First Edition...
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...Administration, 1093 Budapest, Hungary Abstract The eastern European cluster consists of Albania, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, and Slovenia. It has a population of 232 million and a gross domestic product (GDP) of U.S.$772 billion. The cluster's distinctive cultural practices are high power distance and high family and group collectivism. The region is facing signi®cant challenges during its period of transition from communist philosophy to market-based economies. The participating managers value a much greater degree of future and performance orientation, but are strongly attached to their cultural heritage of deep family and group cohesion. They are also highly value charismatic and team-oriented leadership. The challenges and complexities facing the region are explored in the paper. # 2002 Published by Elsevier Science Inc. 1. Introduction This article provides an in-depth look at the eastern European culture. This region is understudied due to its socialist past and was not (with the exception of Greece and Yugoslavia), included in Hofstede's seminal work (1980) or basic reviewing and synthesizing study of Ronen & Shenkar, 1985 comparative study of 25 countries. Over the past few years, a few writers have examined cultural and managerial issues in this region. Kiezun (1991) showed that leadership styles in Hungary and Poland were the least rigid and autocratic2 and management decision-making 1 The lead author prepared the manuscript, while the other three...
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...under HRE (Holy Roman Empire) o For alliances: old nobility vs. wealthy merchants FIGHT P-Prussia Popolo: third class, “the people”, wanted own share of wealth/power R-Russia A-Austria Ciompi Revolts: 1378 Florence, Popolo were revolting [eew], brief period of control over government B-Britain Milan taken over by signor (which is a tyrant) • o Under control of the Condottiero (mercenary) Sforza- Significant because after this, a few wealthy families dominated Venice (e.g. Medici) Humanism: Francesco Petrarch (Sonnets), came up with term “Dark Ages”, began to study classical world of rhetoric and literature Cicero: Important Roman, provided account of collapse of Roman Republic [like Edward Gibbon], invented Ciceronian style: Latin style of writing which humanists followed • [Even though they weren’t in Rome, Humanists did as the Romans do] Despite being accused of following Pagan culture, Petrarch talked a lot about universality Civic Humanists: Politicians/ diplomats, utilized public education for common good Plato: Studying Greek allowed enlightened people to observe platonic ideals [also, big fat...
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...Country Analysis - Greece Bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea in southern Europe,Greece is a country of mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands. From wet winters, to hot and dry summers, greece is a popular tourist destination. With nearly 4.5 million people in the Athens area, Greece is populated with nearly 10 million people in which a parliamentary democracy exists. 300 people are elected whom form the parliament which conducts the legislative duties of the government.The political party collects approximately 151 seats in the parliamental duties of the administration. The president automatically becomes prime minster and then gets appointed to become cabinet ministers. The actual ‘president’ is elected by the parliament for a five year term. The current ‘chief of state’ is President Karolos Papoulias and the head of government is Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. As you are aware, Greece’s economy isn’t doing too well lately. Greece has a capitalist economy which means it has an economic system based on private ownership of capital. 40 percent of the countries GDP is accounted from a public sector. Tourism provides fifteen percent, in which we will discuss later. Between 2003 and 2007 the economy grew nearly four percent per year. This is partially due to the 2004 Olympic games which also resulted in an increased availability of...
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...Michael dell leadership style Introduction Michael dell, born in February 1965, at the age of eight he showed his attitude towards people. Because he was never satisfied by the ordinary and he wanted to improve more and more to reach for the best. Dell started his career at the age of 12 by getting to know more about the stamps. He started to sale stamps where he earned $2000 and another thing is that he got great learning experience for the future venture. At the age of 16 Dell started selling the newspaper subscription of “The Houston post” this opportunity gave him more and more power of the market segmentation and he got the ideas to maximize the customers and dell empowered himself and he got help from school friend as well from this business he earned $18000. At the age of 18 Dell still freshman at school, and he got the vendor’s licence. This empowered him to sell the high performance computers that he upgraded. When dell joined the University of Texas at Austin, at the age of 19, he was a student of university when he started his business with the name of PC’s limited in storey residency hall Dobie centre. In 1992 he formulated the company in public and dell computer entered the fortune 500 list of the world largest companies. Finally he got the success in his entire life with his better performance. At that moment he was the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of dell. He was the founder of the dell Inc in 1992. “Technology has always...
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...International Economic Relations International Economic Relations International House of Pancakes International House of Pancakes Export analysis: From USA to Czech Republic Export analysis: From USA to Czech Republic Authors: Barbora Nykodýmová Helena Leszczynska Preet Singh Authors: Barbora Nykodýmová Helena Leszczynska Preet Singh Delivery date: 2011, May 26 Delivery date: 2011, May 26 Table of Contents Internal Analysis (USA) 3 External Analysis (Czech Republic) 4 Macroeconomic Factors 4 Economic Structure 4 Political Legal Structure 6 Demographic Aspects 7 Socio-cultural Factors 10 Technological Level/Factors 11 Geographic Aspects and Distribution Structure 11 Product Analysis on the Export Market 13 Potential Buyer Analysis 13 Competitive Analysis 13 Product 15 Price 16 Distribution 16 Communication 17 Other Aspects 18 Conclusion 19 List of Sources 20 Appendices 22 Internal Analysis (USA) External Analysis (Czech Republic) Macroeconomic Factors Economic Structure Own experience with the market: Two from three members of group are citizens from Czech Republic; so own experience is strong enough. Gross National Product (GNP): In Czech Republic to measure value is used gross domestic product. GNP is not measured. So GDP as a value of all final goods and services produced within a country in certain period. In 2010 annual increment in GDP was positive, except in 2009 was negative, last 5 years was...
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