ABSTRACT This paper aims to describe the particular market for ticket events and analyse the evolution of some regulatory and non-regulatory solutions developed to control the expansion of secondary ticketing and ticket-scalping practices and, in particular, it tries to investigate how the increasing adoption of internet as a re-selling channel is imposing big changes in the legislation and how all this is challenging the old approach of regulators to this specific market. The paper, supported
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Contemporary Issues In Hospitality Management | | A critical investigation into the enabling and inhibiting factors effecting restaurants propensity to provide local food | | Student No. 09823206 | 8/12/2011 | HH300UWords: 2485 | It is apparent there is growing pressure from global, national and social stakeholders for businesses to become more sustainable in their practises. Although defining sustainable food consumption is fraught with difficulties it is widely accepted to include
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Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is now sound familiar to Malaysia, this is because that countries is one out of the twelve countries that involve in that agreement. The goals of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a much-delayed but significant trade agreement between 12 countries in Asia-Pacific and the Americas pushed by the US are increasingly becoming clearer after ongoing talks reveal some of the intentions Washington is pursuing with this pact. The highlighted of the agreement is to increase
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respect to ethical decision making for sustainable development. This paper summarizes the role and function of the major globalization oversight organizations and touches on the extent of the power that they wield. It briefly discusses the advantages and disadvantages of globalization and attempts to identify the goals of globalization and given these goals and the identification of the stakeholders and subsequently to evaluate whether or not it is a driver or barrier to ethical decision making and sustainable
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education, and legal and civic norms. Today’s underdeveloped countries must acquire these institutions under particularly difficult conditions -- in a global market competing with already developed countries (North 2002). Although there may be some advantages to 1 I use the term development to mean countries which have achieved a level of per capita income that puts them in the World Bank’s high income category (above $9,266 in 2000), as well as high scores on selected social indicators (life expectancy
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GriffCh15v3.qxd 10/27/06 08:12 PM Page 439 CHAPTER 15 • LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOR IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 439 Part 3 Closing Cases Ben & Jerry’s—Japan On an autumn evening in Tokyo in 1997, Perry Odak, Angelo Pezzani, Bruce Bowman, and Riv Hight gratefully accepted the hot steaming oshibori towels their kimonobedecked waitress quietly offered. It had been just over nine months since Odak had committed to resolving the conundrum of whether to introduce Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to
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American Business Law Journal Volume 45, Issue 2, 283–330, Summer 2008 The Impact of Compulsory Licensing on Foreign Direct Investment: A Collective Bargaining Approach Robert Birdn and Daniel R. Cahoynn I. INTRODUCTION The need to facilitate access to essential medicines for those with lifethreatening or fatal diseases like HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria has generated significant interest. Yet, an inevitable tension exists between the need for pharmaceutical companies to profit from their patented
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Salvatore fdedi.tex V2 - 11/10/2012 9:37 A.M. Page iv International Economics Eleventh Edition Dominick Salvatore Fordham University VICE PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER EXECUTIVE EDITOR OPERATIONS MANAGER CONTENT EDITOR SENIOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT CONTENT MANAGER SENIOR PRODUCTION EDITOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING MARKETING MANAGER LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER SENIOR MEDIA SPECIALIST DESIGN DIRECTOR SENIOR DESIGNER COVER PHOTO CREDIT George Hoffman Joel Hollenbeck
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important foreign direct investment coming into their communities from Japan. While the reasons U.S. firms engage with Japan are diverse, savvy firms recognize that underestimating the strategic and tactical importance of the Japanese market may disadvantage them not only in Japan, but in the United States and third-country markets as well. Japan is back in the business news headlines in 2013, owing in part to a rising stock market, a sharply lower yen, and stirrings of domestic demand for both personal
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Economics is the study of the key players in the economy, such as: * Government * Shareholders * Consumers/ Suppliers * Regulators etc.; These players interact with each other to maximize their own agendas. However, they each have limited resources. This means that choices must be made, where something is selected and another is given up. Opportunity cost is defines as the benefits foregone of the next best alternative when a choice has to be made. When resources are
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