...Environmental Challenges of the American Automotive Industry Post economic recession has seen a return of the American automobile manufacturers (most specifically the Big 3, though Chrysler was bought by Fiat). Still environmental challenges to American automobile manufacturers are many: global competition occurring here and abroad; reduced demand; product safety recalls; environmental/emissions regulations; and fluctuations in the economy. All of these challenges have an impact on every American automobile manufacturer as well as global automakers, just to differing degrees. The environmental challenges also impact the consumer. This essay will discuss those challenges and how they can challenge the American automobile manufacturing industry...
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...Policies to increase competitiveness of Japanese film Industry globally Cooperation, Outbound FDI and Technology Transfer: In the Global Logic of Strategic Alliance, Kenichi Ohmae suggests that due to the dispersion of technology, firms can increase their technological knowledge by cooperation with other partners. Indeed the Japanese did this early on, working with the Americans and Europeans to gain experience in new filming techniques and technology. For example, the Franco-Japanese film Typhoon over Nagasaki, Madame Butterfly (Italian-Japanese), and Geisha Girl (American-Japanese). Japanese firms have also been active in outbound FDI. For example, in 1989 Sony purchased Columbia pictures for 4.8 billion USD, including TriStar Films and the Loews Cinema Chain. Later, to expand its film arm, Sony also acquired MGM. In fact, for such outbound FDI by Japanese firms, they are able to benefit from a stronger yen as they...
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...Case Analysis Report Clayton Industries: Peter Arnell, Country Manager for Italy (HBS Case # 4199) 1. Evaluate Peter Arnell’s first two months as general manager of Clayton SpA. What are the main challenges he faces? How well is he dealing with them? The biggest challenge Peter faces is the stagnant growth that Clayton SpA has experienced in recent years, especially with a 5.3% decline in 2008 and 19.4% drop in the first quarter of 2009 for Italy. This lack of sales directly affects receivables and inventory. Coupled with a strong union in Italy (FILM), these two forces directly contribute to the difficulty of fulfilling the 10/10/10 plan. Based on these trends, a “top four in four” years is unlikely unless SpA can significantly increase its European sales in the chiller market. So far, he has taken some necessary steps in understanding the situation and has made some necessary changes to prepare for a comprehensive overhaul of the division. However, he has yet to make any decisions for the long term future of the company. 2. Review the three possible courses of action outlined on the last page of the case. As Arnell, which plan would you recommend to Dan Briggs and Simonne Buis next week? What problems and constraints might limit your strategic recommendation? How could you deal with those issues? The 3 possible courses of action are as follows: 1) Continue to do what they have been doing, except better – increase efficiency, improve product...
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...PERFORMANCE OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN INDUSTRIALISATION: A STUDY WITH REFERENCE TO INDIA INTRODUCTION Prosperity of any nation is extremely difficult without industrial development – is a well established truth for all the economies – developing or developed. Economic development and industrialization have became so closely integrated with each other that progress of an economy is now accessed from the success it has achieved in transformation from agricultural set up into a industrial set up. Through industrialization a situation is created whereby many industries are set up rapidly and ultimately backward areas are converted into economically developed areas and backward economies into developed economies. Industrialization, infact is a composite term which involves a number of structural changes such as changes in the production techniques, factor intensities, industrial employment and output. Industrialization is not only a way to increase output or national income but is a means of introducing modern technology and changing ways of life and finally the structure of the economy because of its self-reinforcing quality. But the all above cannot be executed without a well planned industrial policy. The industrial polity provides direction to the pace of industrialization and industrial development. Hence, to industrialize the country, India too, framed industrial policy which was amended, modified and reoriented several times. The First Industrial Policy was framed in 1948...
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...A study on the factors of High Labour Turnover within the Hotel Industry in Johor Bahru 1.0 Introduction The hotel industry in Malaysia was considered the second highest industry that contributed to the national GDP. A report from the Malaysia Insider (2010) stated that 9% of the country’s GDP is contributed by this industry due to the increasing numbers of tourists visiting the nation. This can be seen from a 2010 report by the MTPB which showed 16.4 million tourists arrived in 2005, later the number increased to 23.6 million within 5 years. Thus, an increase in the number of tourist means that there will be more job opportunities for the locals. However according to the report from the Ministry of Human Resource in 2009 it mentioned that the Tourism employee turnover in Malaysia is relatively high at 16% and 8% was contributed by hotel employee turnover. Manpower is crucial to any industry but to the service industry manpower shortage would be the biggest challenge faced by the hotel industry when compounded by the issues of staff retention and job satisfaction. In an increasingly competitive landscape, the hospitality industry must endure upon restructuring especially in aspects of career progression opportunities and matching the industry growth with the talent and service levels as well as monetary and non-monetary reward structures. It has become a necessity to look at the context of labour turnover within the hotel industry and decide on benchmark practices to battle...
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...petroleum industry in Bangladesh: A case study of Shell By Delwar 2014 Dissertation submitted to Anglia Ruskin University in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Masters Programme Abstract The research issue is that multinational organisations in the petroleum industry such as Shell and British Petroleum are being pressurised by their stakeholders to take responsibility for their business activities. In view of stakeholder pressure, companies have developed and implemented CSR policies and practices. However, the effectiveness of these CSR policies and practices is questionable as the effects of companies activities have negatively impacted the lives of their stakeholders and continue to do so (Amao, 2013). There is extensive research being carried out on understanding the effectiveness of multinationals CSR practices as there exists a wide gap between what companies are saying and what they are actually doing. Practising CSR makes companies responsible for looking after the needs of their stakeholders, makes companies take steps to protect the environment, improve people's livelihoods, motivates employees and increases organisations' effectiveness and efficiency. Multinational state they are practising CSR. Yet their activities have caused much harm to stakeholders. Shell's activities in Nigeria have caused severe health risk to families’ drinking water containing high levels of carcinogens (BBC, 2011). This study is important...
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...Creative and Cultural Industries, MA Module: HUP057N What does a “political economy” approach to study of the Creative and Cultural Industries involve? What are its advantages and disadvantages? ID: 10048001 Anastasia Davydova 1. Introduction The intention of this paper is to define what we mean by political economy? What does this approach involve to study the Creative and Cultural Industries and what its advantages and disadvantages. This work will search through definitions, different schools and historical periods to better understand the background of Political Economy. Also this approach will be compared with another approach which examines cultural industries namely cultural studies approach to underline the main key point of political economy. This essay will briefly discuss specifics features of Creative and Cultural industries and moves to political economy approach itself with the final observation of advantages and disadvantages. “Culture is our business and business is our culture” [1] Definitions The term political economy addresses to relationship between politics and economy, how political power cooperate with economics, so politics responsible for the society and economy, in other words in charge of wealth of the society. Hence it is possible to declare that political economy examines the production and distribution...
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...AIRLINE INDUSTRY A STUDY ECO 203 NYC ROSA MARIA MAGPANTAY, RN, BSN, CCRN INTRODUCTION Since the inception of flight in 1903, air travel industry has been a crucial means of transportation for people and products. The invention of the first aircraft hundred-plus years ago brought about a revolution of how people travel. It has been a dynamically changing industry. Air travel remains a large and growing industry. It facilitates world trade, economic growth, tourism and international investment, and is therefore central to the globalization of many other industries. This paper will discuss the characteristics of airline industry in the United States with more focus on passenger airlines, its market structure and competitive environment, market shares and profits, recent developments, technology and innovation, and the future of the industry. U.S. AIRLINES The airlines are classified in many ways. It can be classified based on their size, revenue, and what they transport. The most common classifications are major passenger airlines, low-cost carriers, airfreight, and regional or commuter carriers. As of December 2014, there were 18 major carriers, which defined by the United States Department of Transportation as an airline that posts more than $1 billion in revenue during a fiscal year. Eleven of which are mainline passenger airlines, four are freight carriers, and three regional airlines. The mainline passenger airlines are Alaska Airlines, American Airlines...
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...FEMBA Program M203A Financial Accounting for Management, Winter 2013 Section 1: 7:00-9:50pm Tuesday, SB 117 Section 2: 8:30-11:20am Saturday, SB 117 Instructor: Office: Office Hours: Website: T.A.: T.A.: Terry Shevlin SB 321 By appointment https://eee.uci.edu/13w/39520 Tim Haight Qin Li Phone: 949.824.6149 Email: tshevlin@uci.edu Email: thaight@uci.edu Email: qin.li@uci.edu Weekly TA Discussion Session: Monday evenings 7:00-8:20pm TLTC (starts Jan 13) This course is designed for individuals who have a desire to learn about accounting (the “language of business”) and its role in society. The practice of accounting goes back thousands of years and affects individuals, not-for profit organizations, large for-profit corporations, government entities, nonprofessional and professional sports teams, and many other entities. Understanding how to create and use accounting information is therefore critical to your future success as a strategic thinker and leader in any organization. Our focus is for-profit businesses. What is the objective of the course? The objective of the course is to help those of you who know little about accounting, but who are willful and active participants in their education, gain a basic understanding of accounting, its role in society, and how accounting information can be used to make informed decisions. Please note that many of you will find the material we will cover challenging. Thus, being a “willful and active participant” may require...
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...population, there has been a large but steady increase in the usage of the Global Positioning System over the last 15 years. The development and utilization of this technology paved its path to creating its own multi-billion dollar industry comprising of a wide variety of applications for farming, construction, transportation, aerospace, health and safety which is estimated to grow up to $26.7 billion in 2016 and eventually become worth much more in the coming years. The significant potential of the industry’s future is highly inevitable due to the growing world population and developing towns, cities and countries. Some of the technology such as augmented reality, touch less gestures, voice enable commands, use of telematics in the automotive sector has also increased the scope of the overall GPS market. The global GPS market is segmented on the basis of its application and type. On the basis of type, the GPS market is divided into automotive, marine, aviation, GPS enabled mobile phones and GPS cameras. This market is divided into traffic control, navigation and position tracking in logistics and security on the basis of its application. Further the market is subdivided into robotics, traffic control, agriculture and other applications. This industry is likely to evolve and advance as well as it did in the last decade wherein the GPS hardware market have been...
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...Executive Summary - November 2007 A Study of the European Cosmetics Industry Executive Summary Prepared for: European Commission, Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry Prepared by: Global Insight, Inc. November 2007 Executive Summary - November 2007 Contact Information Emilio Rossi Managing Director Business Planning Solutions, Europe Global Insight, (Italy) srl. Via S. Maria Segreta 6 20123 Milan +3902 8648 130 emilio.rossi@globalinsight.com Antonia Prlic Principal 1 Adelaide Street East Suite 2505, P.O. Box 198 Toronto, Ontario, M5C 2V9 Canada +1 416 682-7312 antonia.prlic@globalinsight.com Robert Hoffman Senior Consultant 1 Adelaide Street East Suite 2505, P.O. Box 198 Toronto, Ontario, M5C 2V9 Canada +1 416 682-7311 robert.hoffman@globalinsight.com Executive Summary - November 2007 I. Broad Market Study An overview of the broad cosmetics industry (also referred to as the cosmetics and toiletries (C&T) industry) in the EU, Japan, China, and the U.S. reveals that Europe's market size is almost as large as the U.S. and Japan combined, due to its large population. In 2006, the U.S. cosmetics market was €38.2 billion, while Japan's was €23.7 billion and China's €8.2 billion. The total EU27 cosmetics market was valued at €63.5 billion in 2006. Among the EU countries, Germany has the largest cosmetics market, valued at €11.7 billion, followed by France (€10.4 billion), the U.K. (€10 billion), Italy (€8.8 billion)...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Overview 1.1.1 Airline industry The airline industry is one of the fastest-changing industry sectors in the world today. That said, compared to other industries the airline industry has a relatively short history to look back at. While it is rather an impossible task to point to the exact date which could signal the starting line for the airline business, it could be said that the history of aviation in general started with the Wright brothers’ success in conducting powered air flights in 1903 (Sheehan & Oclott, 2003). A German general and aircraft manufacturer Count Zeppelin was the first business man to found an airline six years after the first manned flight by the Wright brothers. On the 16th...
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...Institute of Management, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. We wish to express our gratitude to Dr. Amarendu Nandy for making it possible for us to analyze the micro economic factors relevant in a condom industry, for his help and advice during this work, and for his contribution and support. We would also like to thank all the people and medical store owners who volunteered for the survey. Preface For the last few decades, the number of sexually transmitted diseases has increased- the most dangerous of them being AIDS. It is important to be aware of the ways of combating such problems. One of the ways to prevent the spread of STDs is by the use of condoms. The project aims to study the microeconomic environment around Kohinoor (Condom). The analysis covers economic and non-economic factors influencing demand, product differentiation, effect of policies and consumer preferences for the product. We have rolled out online surveys and conducted field surveys for data collection and documented the quantitative aspect of the project by studying market segmentation, elasticity, price competition, bottom line and pricing practices. Table of Contents About the Company ......................................................................................................... 5 The Condom Industry...
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...JetBlue Case Study JetBlue is not the airline that everyone thinks of when they consider low cost airlines. Yet it stands as one of the more profitable airlines. This is due to a variety of factors, but it also faces some issues. The company has to adapt to the departure of the founding CEO. Depending on the organizational view of leadership that the firm has this could be problematic. If the view they take is external and most decisions are made based on market conditions, external environmental analysis, etc. this is not as much of an issue. Less demand and expectations rest on the CEO to be the force behind the entire company. If they take a romantic approach, however, then there could be more difficulty with the change. This would lead to more emphasis placed on the leader to run the company and possibly some hostility or excess pressure placed on whoever fills his shoes (Dess, Lumpkin, Eisner, Mcnamara, 2014). The firm has to have faith in the leaders of the organization regardless of the view of leadership. This leads to the new CEO having to inspire faith in his ability to lead the organization. Potentially a major operational challenge anytime that there is a shift in leadership and certainly one the JetBlue was forced to face. While they handle the leadership shift they must also acknowledge the changes in the segment to which they appeal. They have placed an emphasis on the economic segment and appealed to those who cannot afford to fly with the traditional...
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...Hodson R. 2008: ‘The personal context of work’, The social organization of work I hereby certify that the word count is 1334 words Student signature: | 1. Summary of the paper This article about the case of Turkish manufacturing industry raises the question of discrimination. Especially, it focuses our attention on the impact of demographic differences in the Turkish manufacturing industry. In fact, sources of discrimination are much more varied. We can consider the cases of the gender, age and ethnicity which are in general the most frequent, but as we can see in this article, there are other types of discrimination. So why managers have to face and resolve the problem of demographic differences in Turkish manufacturing industry? Sevki Ozgener tried to study this organization in establishing demographic differences with data collected from medium-sized business in Turkish manufacturing industry. There are many factors having an influence on discrimination. It can be regional differences, gender, educational and age differences but also political opinions. These kinds of factors are not only found in the hiring strategy but also in job processes or in the promotions and appointments. In this study, there are original aspects of discrimination which are analyzed. For example, the author found that...
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