Hoang Student’s number: Class: Lecture: DBS bank is a leading financial services group in Asia, with over 200 branches across 15 markets. DBS was established in 1968 as the development bank of Singapore. It was the catalyst to Singapore’s economic development during the nation’s early years of independence. Since then, DBS has transformed into a successful financial services institution, offering a comprehensive range of innovative products and solutions to meet its clients’ needs. With operations
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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Y/601/0546 MARKET ENVIRONMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR MOHAMED ABOOBUCKER JAZEER AHAMED Introduction Business environment is composed of two words ‘Business’ and ‘Environment’. In economic sense ‘Business’ means human activities like production, purchase or extraction or sales of products or services that are performed to earn money. Meanwhile ‘Environment’ means the aspect of surroundings. Business environment is the set of conditions institutional, political
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Megaregions: The Importance of Place (HBR : March 2008) by Richard Florida Nations have long been considered the fundamental economic units of the world, but that distinction no longer holds true. Today, the natural units – and engines – of the global economy are megaregions, cities and suburbs in powerful conurbations, at times spanning national borders, forming vast swaths of trade, transport, innovation, and talent. The world economy is organized around a few dozen megaregions – areas like the
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financial markets are typically related health wise to the overall economic condition in the country. While the market has a bearing the overall health of the economy impacts the financial markets more. If business is growing and expanding and jobs are plentiful the economy generates money which creates profit which means people want and have money to invest to grow the economy and the financial markets come along. With regard to business one of the best ways for companies to obtain capital is through
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No matter whether the discourse is of corporate social responsibility or of sustainability there exists a high degree of scepticism about the reality of corporate activity. Accusations of greenwashing – presenting a false picture – abound. We argue that this is a legacy of past behaviour when such an accusation could reasonably be made about many organisations. Our argument is the CSR is a developmental process and changes as organisations mature in their behaviour and attitude towards both their
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International Business Environment BE2501 – Summary Chapter 1 Globalization – refers to the shift toward a more integrated and interdependent world economy. Globalization of markets – refers to the merging of historically distinct and separate national markets into one huge global marketplace. Globalization of products – refers to the sourcing of goods and services from locations around the globe to take advantage of national differences in the cost and quality of factors of production (such
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Business Finance & Accounting The American Accounting Association define accounting as follows: "the process of identifying, measuring and communicating economic information to permit informed judgements and decisions by users of the information! Let's look at the key words in the above definition: - It suggests that accounting is about providing information to others. Accounting information is economic information - it relates to the financial or economic activities of the business or organisation
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1.3 Explain the responsibilities of organisation and strategies employed to meet them pg.6,7 2.1 Explain how economic systems attempt to allocate resources effectively pg.7, 8 2.2 Assess the impact of fiscal and monetary policy on business organisations and their activities pg.8, 9 2.3 Evaluate the impact of competition policy and other regulatory mechanisms on the activities of a selected organisation pg.10 3.1 Explain how market structures determine the pricing and output decisions of
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PART III TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS 7 The role of transnational corporations in the globalisation process Grazia Ietto-Gillies1 1. Introduction Globalisation is a complex phenomenon which is more in the nature of a process than a state of affairs. There have been several attempts at definition (McGrew, 1992; Oman, 1996; Castells, 1996; Giddens, 1999; Held et al. 1999).2 Most definitions boil down to the fact that globalisation is both a process of geographical/spatial outreach and of an increased
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Berlin School of Economics and Law Nilay BIÇAKCIOĞLU 310978 Title of Essay: Why are ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ strategies important for enterprises? Prof. Dr. Jose M. Magone LV 400591.01 Work, Business & Society Berlin, 2011 Abstract Nowadays, the importance of social responsibility activities is growing awareness for companies.It is directly related to your business and if you want to have long term business success, you have
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