Retailing in the 21st Century Manfred Krafft ´ Murali K. Mantrala (Editors) Retailing in the 21st Century Current and Future Trends With 79 Figures and 32 Tables 12 Professor Dr. Manfred Krafft University of Muenster Institute of Marketing Am Stadtgraben 13±15 48143 Muenster Germany mkrafft@uni-muenster.de Professor Murali K. Mantrala, PhD University of Missouri ± Columbia College of Business 438 Cornell Hall Columbia, MO 65211 USA mantralam@missouri.edu ISBN-10 3-540-28399-4
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Chapter 1: The business systems of Asia Variety in the regional and general features Civilizational traditions • Confucianism • Taoism • Buddhism • Islam • Catholicism Historical external influences • Colonies • India establishing trading connections, mostly in South East Asia • Chinese who left China and settled as business people in the countries around the rim of the South China sea Periods: 1. 1945-1975 After the retreat of colonial powers, countries needed to reestablish their
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9-710-467 REV: SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 DAVID B. YOFFIE RENEE KIM Apple Inc. in 2010 On April 4, 2010, Apple Inc. launched its eagerly anticipated iPad amid great hype. The multimedia computer tablet was the third major innovation that Apple had released over the last decade. CEO Steve Jobs had argued that the iPad was another revolutionary product that could emulate the smashing success of the iPod and the iPhone. Expectations ran high. Even The Economist displayed the release of the iPad on its
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Multinational companies and China: What future? Contents Preface Executive summary Introduction Chapter 1: The big picture Hope, hype and reality Justified optimism? Chapter 2: The consumption story Chapter 3: The perils of success Is it enough One strategy, or two? Is it too much? Lacoste: Who’s your benchmark? Chapter 4: Whose hubris? Suddenly uncertain Chapter 5: The invisible hand Aiming high The real issue A non-standard approach At what price? High-speed trains: A series of unfortunate
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Final PDF to printer case 6 Google’s Strategy in 2013 JOHN E. GAMBLE Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi Google was the leading Internet search firm in 2013, with nearly a 67 percent market share in search from home and work computers and a 97 percent share of searches performed from mobile devices. Google’s business model allowed advertisers to bid on search terms that would describe their product or service on a cost-per-impression (CPI) or cost-per-click (CPC) basis. Google’s
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Ibsen* University of Arizona, Department of Sociology, P.O. Box 210027, Tucson, AZ 85721-0027,United States a b s t r a c t Keywords: Airplanes Boeing Airbus Two-party democracy Frames Technological philosophy Economic models of technological innovation, as well as modern sociological approaches to the study of organizations, predict that two-actor markets will eventually evolve into one dominant technological logic. Why is it, then, that the only two global manufacturers of large commercial airplanes
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Int. J. Production Economics 133 (2011) 25–34 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Int. J. Production Economics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ijpe Identifying risk issues and research advancements in supply chain risk management Ou Tang a,c, S. Nurmaya Musa a,b,n a Department of Management and Engineering, Link¨ping University, SE-581 83 Link¨ping, Sweden o o Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia c School
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Project Report On ANALYSIS OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION WITH RESPECT TO MOTOROLA MOBILE PHONES Submitted in partial fulfillment for the award of degree for 3year course in BBA (3rd year) 2005-2008, Submitted by: certificate This is to certify that the project report titled " Analysis of customer satisfaction with respect to Motorola Mobile phones" is submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of " Bachelors of Business Administration" at New Delhi Institute of Management, New Delhi
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NOKIA’S MARKETING STRATEGIES IN INDIA by Nikunj Daga 2006-2007 A dissertation presented in part consideration for the degree of MA in Marketing No portion of the work referred to in the dissertation has been submitted in support of an application of another degree or qualification of this or any other university or other institution of learning. 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Writing a dissertation
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Int. J. Production Economics 106 (2007) 323–345 www.elsevier.com/locate/ijpe Organizational structures and the performance of supply chain management Soo Wook Kimà College of Business Administration, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Sillim-dong, Kwanak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea Accepted 12 July 2006 Available online 26 September 2006 Abstract The objective of this paper is to suggest a set of best organization structures for efficient supply chain management. For
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