...Samsung – Stages of Corporate Citizenship Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as part of business strategy has shown increased prominence in contemporary business world. On a daily basis the roles corporations play in society are scrutinized by the media who constantly lookout to report on scandals, corporate misbehavior or, the positive contributions businesses have on society (Crane, 2008). Induced by this, corporations are facing increasing pressure to legitimate their practices and take account of the impact they have on society, which has led to the emergence of what Crane (2008) refers to as a ‘CSR Movement’. The concept of CSR emerged in the 1960/70’s as an American Doctrine that has popularized in recent decades due to the emergence of factors including globalization and the rise of global/transnational corporations (Jenkins, 2005). Attitudes around this concept have also altered from viewing CSR as a philanthropic exercise to a concept/practice necessary for corporate survival. The latter point can be supported by a numerous examples of organizations that have not complied with ethical/socially responsible standards, such as Nike, who faced numerous allegations of unethical conditions at its overseas suppliers in the 1990’s (Zadek, 2004). It is virtually impossible to define CSR due to the every-evolving nature of the concept. Various sources including academics, articles, and websites tackle, and all produce unique definitions of the concept. Crane, Matten...
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...Code: MGMT 1001 Assignment Title: Assessment 1: Critical Essay Tutor’s Name: Sean O’hara Tutorial Day and Time: Wednesday, 9AM Name of Company: Samsung Electronic Title: Samsung Electronic Social Performance Semester/ Campus Details: Trimester 2A 2015- Singapore Word Count: 1505 words Introduction Nowadays, doing business is not just a matter of earning profit as much as possible, but the entrepreneur should be able to do business in the right way, which is getting the expected profit along with fulfilling the society needs (Okpo 2013). Most organizations have realized and believe that it is important for the company to engage with the society since giving back to the society will create value for the business itself (Miluwi 2015). Having that in mind, according to Broomhill (2007), the organization should think that profit is beyond the objectives without doing business in ethical and socially responsible ways. The multinational corporation, Samsung Electronics is a division of Samsung Group that was established in 1969. Samsung Electronics aimed to enter the television and consumer electronic industry. At first, Samsung Electronics only produced black and white television and then they developed it into several electronics products. In the last decades, Samsung Electronics also manufactured, shipped and sold the products throughout the world (Reference for Business 2015). However, the bigger a company grows, the...
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...Project Report ON Samsung Submitted To: - Submitted By: - Central Uniersity of Jharkhand Samsung History Samsung's history dates to 1938 when "Samsung General Stores" opened in North Kyung-sang Province, Korea. The company conducted its trade business until the 1950s when it became a producer of basic commodities such as sugar and wool. In 1958, Samsung be-came involved in the insurance industry by incorporating a local fire & marine insurance company. During the 1960s, Samsung became one of the first Korean companies to actively expand its overseas trade. The group consolidated its manufacturing base by adding paper and fertilizer businesses. Samsung continued with expansion into the life insurance business, strengthened its retail operations and then moved into the communications sector, successfully establishing a newspaper and a broadcasting company. The 1970s were a crucial period in shaping present-day Samsung. Its strengths in the semiconductor, information and telecommunications industries grew from the significant investments made during this period. Samsung also took a meaningful step toward heavy industries by venturing into aircraft manufacturing, shipbuilding and construction, as well as chemical industries. In the 1980s, Samsung expanded its efforts into exploring the larger markets overseas...
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...Welcome to the Samsung Global Strategy Group I. Samsung Overview II. Introduction to the Global Strategy Group (GSG) III. GSG & You IV. Korea & Seoul I. Samsung Overview I. Samsung Overview (Revenue & Global Presence) Fast growth and vast global footprint Samsung Group Revenue ※ Billion US Dollars Global Operations 318 369,000 employees worldwide 510 offices and facilities in 79 countries 141 87 226 Electronics 80 Samsung 22 1997 2005 2012 4 I. Samsung Overview (Leading Products) 5 I. Samsung Overview (Leading Products) 6 I. Samsung Overview (Brand Value) Samsung ranked 9th among global companies in 2012 7 I. Samsung Overview (Total 29 Affiliates Companies) The Samsung Group consists of many different business units Electronics Industry Electronics Engineering & Heavy Industry C&T Corporation Engineering Financial Services Life Insurance Fire & Marine Insurance Samsung Card Securities Asset Management Venture Investment Chemical Cheil Industries Inc. Petrochemical Fine Chemicals BP Chemicals Total Other Companies Cheil Worldwide Everland Inc. The Shilla Hotels & Resorts Economics Research Institute S1 Corporation Medical Center BioLogics SDS Heavy Industries Electro-Mechanics Techwin SDI Display Corning Precision Glass Bioeps 7 Affiliates 3 Affiliates 6 Affiliates 5 Affiliates 8 Affiliates 8 I. Samsung Overview (SEC Biz. Division) HME : Health Medical...
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...BY VARUN MALHOTRA SEC-H 11BSPHH010930 PROJECT ON PLACE & PROMOTION, C.S.R, SOCIAL MEDIA OF Place Strategy of Samsung The place strategy of Samsung is of three types: * It follows intensive distribution. * It follows selective distribution. * It follows exclusive distribution. The place strategy also includes * 24 state level distribution offices * Direct Dealer interface * Regional dispatch centers(RDC) Distribution System * One level channel * Two level channel * Shop-in-shop * Exclusive Showrooms * Sales and Service network all-over the India. Distribution Network Original equipment manufacturer/vendor or supplier Factory Regional Distributing Centre Direct Dealer Branch Warehouse Modern retail/ Exclusive stores & Samsung digital plazas Distributor Sub- Dealer Consumer/ Customer In India, apart from a lot of multi brand outlets, Samsung has a lot of flagship stores- which sell a wide range of Samsung products from mobile handsets, kitchen appliances to televisions. In this context it’s interesting to see Samsung explore all the more new avenues like opening a Smartphone Café. Promotion Strategy * Sales Promotion The main objective of sales promotion is to induce new customers to purchase as well as to keep attracting existing customers by providing special incentives to them. Offering discounts coupons displays and demonstration would help in increasing...
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...Lesson 8, Samsung Analisys Igor Zapozdaev International American University BUS 590 Business StrategyIncredible Instructor December 17, 2014 I. Introduction and History……………………………….. 3 II. Samsung as the highest handset seller currently……. 4-6 III. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats… 6-7 IV. Samsung Strategies……………………………………… 8 V. Conclusion & Recommendations..……………….……… 9 VII. Reference…………………………………………….. 9 I. Introduction and History. Samsung electronics is a company with its capital in Samsung Town Soul, South Korea. Samsung. Electronics unlike other electronic companies started it business operations on other products and not electronics. It started off as fish exporter vegetables and fruits exporter in China which was the business activity of the founder Byung-Chull Lee in 1938. Samsung expanded its activities again for the second time and also not in the electronics arena. It expanded to ship building, financial industry, chemicals and the media industries. This was in the years 1958 throughout to the 1970’s. In 1969, Samsung officially kicked off its business venture in the electronics industry. It called itself SAMSUNG Electronics. It first started off with its most famous product the Samsung TV, the mobile phones arena, computer components, radios, and other electronic devices like the Samsung fridges. This was their core business all through the 90’s to date. They have expanded their electronic base opening branches in...
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...| 2015 | | Samsung Student name | [Comparison of samsung and apple] | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | Abstract This essay covers the economic, legal and social environment factors impacting Samsung and Apple. Tough economic conditions are forcing them to take their fight to the emerging markets. Social factors are forcing them to operate locally while being global companies while legal factors are making them to fight over patent infringement etc. The organizational culture is impacting their performance so they are trying to make it positive by involving employees in the decision making and making them more autonomous. The leadership style is pretty aggressive and they are taking higher risk to gain higher returns. Technological advancements means the rivals are also customers and vendors of each other as well. I have selected Samsung as it is the company for which I want to work after graduation. Samsung is famous for its electronic products specially smartphones and smart TVs. My second selection as per requirement is Apple Inc. Samsung’s biggest rival. Economic Environment Economic environment is particularly important for both Samsung and Apple because both are working in numerous developing and developed economies and are expending upon their foot prints...
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...Q1: Perform a PEST on Samsung and Identify the Change Drivers The group has identified the following analysis on SAMSUNG, one of South Korea’s key income contributor from the electronics industry that has resulted on a positive impact to the growth of the nation. The following table will highlight an analysis from Samsung’s perspective with regards to the nation’s political, economical, social and technology areas, where we have identified the change drivers, be it negative or positive, from the PEST analysis. |SCOPE |Samsung PEST Analysis |Change Drivers | |POLITICAL |Government: |Government: needed to improve the situation and| | |Was the second poorest country in the World (in|ensure the quality of the people rise at par | | |1954) and this was a huge concern. |with its other neighboring countries ie Japan, | | | |China and Russia. | | |Government strategy was to leverage on Samsung | | | |by promoting the company during the Seoul ...
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...Samsung case I. How attractive is Samsung’s primary (core) industry? Founded in 1938, Samsung is one of the industry leaders in a multitude of industries from power generation through to smart phones (Kovach, 2013). Each of their business units adhere to the same vision of becoming the preferred supplier of products and/or services to their clients, but the methods used to achieve this vision are tailored to suit the specific market focus, therefore demonstrating the adaptability of the company. The biggest players are Apple, Samsung with well over 50% market share. Samsung has achieved these amazing results due to its success in the mobile business, which contributed more than two-thirds of its operating profit. Anyone following Samsung, however, should not overlook its other businesses. In Samsung's non-mobile businesses, the company holds a leading position in solid industries and has consistently increased its year-over-year operating profit for the last several quarters. Most of the innovation for the Samsung products shared the same core design. Samsung flexible product line able them to materialize those ideas to end products with minimal cost occurred. For every new invention and innovation, Samsung does not need to set up a new facility. The results, higher yield against the cost of the production. Lower cost of productions allowed Samsung to offer attractive and competitive price for the consumer. The relatively lower cost gives lots of rooms for the pricing...
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...ultimately named Samsung—which means "three stars" in Korean. In 1970, Samsung-Sanyo captured the hearts of the people, by producing Black-and-white TV (model: P-3202) Impetus among the organization is the main reason to bring Samsung corporation.Later they extended their flag in acquiring established companies one by one. Four years later, their marketing techniques involved the production of different needs like washing machine and refrigerators.Later, in early 1970s Samsung broadened its horizon in expanding Industries and electronics. The strong capitalizing went in investing in the chemical, and petrochemical industries.. Few years later their success was measured when they ended up producing 4 million black-and-white TVs, thus being the best and the most seller in the world during that period.. Well along with this, they decided to gratify the society, bringing in color televisions. This introduction laid an accomplishment in the marketing industry, being a tough competitor to most of the conventional companies.Samsung’s reach by then improved drastically, which influenced them in the mass production of microwave ovens, reaching the high profile community, enlisting, the connection to the common crowd. During this time, the company also took steps to enhance its competitive position in the world's textile industry, integrating its manufacturing processes from raw materials to end products. As a result, many new companies were created,Samsung Shipbuilding and Samsung Precision...
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...Business level strategy of Samsung Introduction Samsung Group (Samsung, 2016) is the largest group or the giant in Korea. Samsung Electronics is the biggest subsidiary of it, which initiated in 2011. A Korean consolidated company generates an average income of $ 150 billion every year. Samsung Electronics has 144 consolidated subsidiaries which 28 were recently combined at the end of 2014. Samsung Electronics contains three core divisions: • Device Solutions, a Business to Business (B2B) division handling semiconductors, various other chips and also Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and other components.. • Digital Media & Communications (DM&C) is primarily a Business to Consumer (B2C) Company making computers, television sets and phones and also everything in between. • Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) is the research power of Samsung that likewise manages (at the moment) its brand-new companies. The three company divisions deal with nine business level units. Image 1 These all units are regulating by each different ways. Numerous marketing and advertising strategies, various marketing projects, different devices, various PhD owners, in addition to numerous purposes with goals For that reason these products are numerous business devices of Samsung Company. Important point is that there are numerous rivals for each system around the world with suitable competitors that needs to manage each unit by various business unit level techniques. Business Level Strategies ...
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...Marketing Plan Samsung Mobile Phone Marketing Management December 4th, 2013 Executive Summary Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate). Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company. Over the next three decades the group diversified into areas including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities and retail. Samsung entered the electronics industry in the late 1960s and the construction and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s; these areas would drive its subsequent growth. Smartphones and mobile phones are ubiquitous in business and everyday use today. Virtually every executive and individual contributor uses one or more of these devices to access email and websites while away from their desk or for simple everyday use. The mobile market continues to be the cornerstone of growth and innovation for the mobile tech industry. Samsung has done an excellent job of marketing itself in the past five years. This marketing plan focuses on the many broad aspects of Samsung as a mobile phone company and outlines some of the things that Samsung can do and has done to improve it’s operations and cut costs to become a more powerful and profitable company. Current Marketing Situation "Inspire the World, Create the Future”...
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... Samsung Group of companies was found in 1938 and major leading company to provide financial and manufacturing services. Since 1980 it has made vast development in semiconductor and electronics industry. Samsung has made remarkable growth in net profits since last two decades. This is regarded as the ways of Samsung conducts the business and strategic INFORMATION MANAGEMENT is the pillars of the entire business at Samsung. For a long period relationships between corporate strategy and information systems; Top management of the firms were not much interested. Information management systems are to be thought as same to corporate data processing and support the daily routine functions (Rockart, 1979). Information management systems based on computer based response to any type of interaction whether at transaction level and supply levels etc. Although Samsung is a much consolidated company but it requires more strategic development planning system to identify more future projects to compete its sister companies in the world. Shipping of products and the best use of strategic information management can enhance the capabilities of the managers to identify the achievable targets of selling of new products of fashionable mobiles by installing the new information management systems. Supply Chain Operations need more development to improve Samsung’s global business operations. OBJECTIVES: The main objective of the Samsung company is to provide better technology. Samsung should...
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...1. What are the ingredients of SEC’s corporate turnaround strategy? Since 1997, Samsung has pursued a bold combination of strategies which have allowed it to innovate & produce higher-quality products across all the categories. Those strategies are mentioned below in detail: A. Vertical Integration – manufacturing continued to remain Samsung’s core competence as always. Samsung believed that if it got out of manufacturing then it would loose the edge since everyone could get the same technology but not everyone was capable of making an advanced product. Farming out manufacturing operations would expose Samsung to inventory risks thus its fate would be in the hands of its suppliers and to prevent that, between 1998 and 2003, Samsung invested $19 billion in new chip factories, $17 billion was invested in 2003 in new manufacturing facilities for LCDs used in flat-screen TVs and such. Samsung not only manufactured for customers internal to the company but also external customers, which included Apple, Sony, etc. so as to ensure that its plants remained competitive. The company was also savvy about its choice of plant locations; for example, to keep costs low, it operated manufacturing plants in China, however R&D facilities were set up in India to take advantage of country’s low cost human capital. Samsung also avoided the commoditization trap that allowed the company to command premium margins by manufacturing special order items such as memory chips for Dell...
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...INTRODUCTION The case is about the Samsung Electronics Co. The Samsung Group is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It is the world's largest conglomerate by revenue with annual revenue of US$173.4 billion in 2008 and is South Korea's largest chaebol. The meaning of the Korean word Samsung is "Tri-Star" or "three stars". Samsung Group formed several electronics-related divisions, such as Samsung Electronics Devices Co., Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Samsung Corning Co., and Samsung Semiconductor & Telecommunications Co., and grouped them together under Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. in 1980s. SAMSUNG’s aim is to develop innovative technologies and efficient processes that create new markets, enrich people’s lives and continue to make Samsung a trusted market leader. Today, Samsung Electronics global presence includes a total of 111 subsidiaries in the form of production subsidiaries, sales subsidiaries, distribution subsidiaries, research laboratories and eight overseas business divisions representing North America, Europe, China, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Central and South America, CIS, the Middle East and Africa. The Samsung Electronics Co. invited us as a consultant to design strategy for its company. Our team will be responsible for making a report on the company that will contain a detailed analysis of the company and then formulating strategy for Samsung. The case was presented in front of us that describe...
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