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    markets. Internationally: (1) Trade barriers fell, consumer affluence grew, and capitalism flourished. (2) A “global” approach would yield economies of scale in manufacturing, assembly, appliance technology and distribution. (3) Whirlpool sought cost reductions in R&D, manufacturing, and services by locating plants in lower cost locations such as China, Mexico and Poland. Strategy Global expansion Whirlpool: Acquired the appliance giant Philips in Europe Bought 65 percent of Italian cooling compressor

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    Hrm Practice Context

    international growth places demands on management and HRM * Identify factors that impact on how managers of internationalizing firms respond to these challenges * We cover the following areas: * Structural responses to international growth: The organizational context in which IHRM activities take place. Different structural arrangement have been identified as the firm moves along the path to international status – from export department through to more complex department such as the matrix

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    Entreprenuers

    TARA FELA-DUROTOYE NIGERIAN MAKE UP ARTIST AND CEO OF HOUSE OF TARA Tara Fela-Durotoye is a Nigerian makeup artist, an entrepreneur and a lawyer. Born 6th March 1977 in Lagos Nigeria, she was raised in Lagos and had her primary and secondary education there and later graduated with a degree in law from the Lagos State University Nigeria where she started her make up business and shortly after she proceeded to London to become a well trained and certified professional makeup artist of Charles

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    actions to reach the desired goal. What all an organization needs to be a leader in the market is information. Information can be available in large forms like web resources, text data, graphs and statistics. The more information a firm has the more powerful it is getting on. Firms need to assess the future market condition with the available previous and present data so as to be a leader. The major goal of Business Intelligence is to dwell in all the available information, refine it and organize it in

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    The Theam Dream Works

    ............................................. 1 2. Model of Thai Small and Medium Sized Enterprises' Organizational Capabilities: Review and Verification 15 3. SMALL BUSINESSES AND INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE ECONOMIC HARD TIME: A GLOBAL STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE............................................................................................ 33 Bibliography...............................................................................................................

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    Accounting Challenges: a Global Perspective

    ACCOUNTING CHALLENGES: A Global Perspective Amber Welch May 17, 2014 BU481 Introduction Herbie Hancock once said, “Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that’s not comfortable for the average person”. Globalization pivots on the strength of the business behind it, the focused efforts by accounting and manageability of an industry of leadership, and standards that when faced

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    Lets Get Together

    start-ups by developing critical mass fast; and that demanded the support of seasoned partners to help break into international corporate accounts. Today the company refers to its web of alliances with hardware companies, software companies, consulting firms and service providers as a "partner ecosystem". Siebel's is not an entirely benign ecosystem, though; it is inhabited by some of the most dangerous corporate predators in the IT sector - companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, Compaq and IBM. These

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    Formula One

    com/cms/s/0/8733b030-de30-11e0-9fb7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1nQrxHXt1 Some observers say that Red Bull's branding is revolutionary, calling it an 'anti-brand' strategy. The company faced additional problems in Pakistan where there were already many established drinks available. The firm avoided usual methods of marketing, relying more on what is called 'buzz marketing' or word-of-mouth. A brand image was created and cultivated which associated the drink with youth culture and extreme and adventure-related sports, such as motor sports

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    Rise of Information Technology in India

    tIKO The global media started writing about India positively only in the past eight years, largely due to the spectacular progress of the Indian IT industry T2K came as a bolt form the blue and a blessing in disguise. Terms like IT superpower and your job is Bangalore and tom Friedman’s book “The world is flat” that went on to become not a mere new York times best-seller, but the best amount many bestsellers in year 2005 brought Indian into the center stage of global IT. The three software

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    Effects of Smart Phones in the Society

    WORKFORCE New international division of labor Main article: New international division of labour The global workforce, or international labor pool, reflects a new international division of labor that has been emerging since the late 1970s in the wake of other forces of globalization. The global economic factors driving the rise of multinational corporations—namely, cross-border movement of goods, services, technology and capital—are changing ways of thinking about labor and the structure of today's

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