Cross-Cultural Perspectives 1 Week 5 Cross-Cultural Perspectives ETH/316: Ethics and Social Responsibility University of Phoenix Cross-Cultural Perspectives Cross-Cultural Perspectives 2 McDonald’s is the largest fast food chain restaurant in the world. Ray Kroc founded the franchise in 1955 in California. McDonald’s server millions of customers daily. The company pride itself on their tasty hamburgers and delicious french-fries. McDonald’s is also known for its quick service and
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives People depend on energy on a daily basis. The fuel from energy is used in daily activities rather personal or business. The more the demand for energy increase the harder it is to locate the supply for it. British Petroleum, also known as BP, is a company that provides energy services to different countries. BP is a global organization that focuses on production, refining, distributing, trading, and exploration of energy. The industry of energy is defined by challenge
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Nike Student UoP Ethics 316 June 18, 2012 Week Five Dr. No Instructor Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Nike Nike Corporation grew from a local United States-based footwear distributor to a global marketing giant of athletic footwear, apparel, and equipment. This paper will provide an analysis of the ethical and social responsibility issues Nike must deal with as
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ETH – 316 Shaiq Rahi Cross-Cultural Perspectives July 16, 2014 University of Phoenix Cross-Cultural Perspectives McDonald’s is the largest fast food chain restaurant in the world. Ray Kroc founded the franchise in 1955 in California. The company pride itself on their tasty hamburgers and delicious french-fries. McDonald’s is also known for its quick service and its drive through. The company went from one restaurant location, to locations in different states, to
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives ETH 316 BP is a global organization that has a multinational presence in the world. A cultural issue that can impact this organization outside of the United States is gender. In the United States and several other countries that BP works in, gender is not an issue as culturally it is acceptable for men and women to be in business together, but in some countries, especially in the Middle East this is tricky cultural difficulty. This can be a serious issue because
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives ETH/316 Cross-Cultural Perspectives Introduction In today’s business market there are huge corporations that use multinational tactics to make their business thrive. Small business is still in existence, but with all of these big corporations who are able to do things a lot cheaper, it puts a lot of stress on small independent businesses. With different rules, laws and regulations in these different parts of the world, corporations thrive on this to help
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Cross Cultural Perspectives M Viens ETH/316 November 24, 2014 Aubrey Weekes Cross Cultural Perspectives The Walmart Corporation is a large, major, and successful retailer in the United States. Walmart’s attempt at branching out in countries such as China, Mexico, Brazil, and Germany has failed. Globally Walmart is not performing well; they have had difficulties in these countries. Their global revenues, “grew by a mere 1% in 2013, and its revenue per square feet declined by
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives Michella Amonson ETH/316 January 16, 2014 Mr. Harralson Cross-Cultural Perspectives This paper is an overview and analysis of the ethical perspective and cultural issues that a global organization faces when interacting outside the United States. I will address and identify the cultural and ethical perspective of the global organization named Walmart. I will also analyze ethical and social responsibility issues that WalMart deals with as a result of being
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives ETH 316 MARCH 10, 2015 Cross-Cultural Perspectives It is the nature of business to expand its business and increase sales. What is ethical? In my opinion ethics are defined by what is “right.” Some ethic standards are defined by law, but many must come from within the person or business. One must realize that sometimes what might be considered unethical by law or ethical by law might need to be revisit and thought about if the law or lack of it produces unethical
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Cross Cultural Perspectives Derrick K. Henry Sr. ETH/316 October October 10, 2014 Donna Craft Ohio- based Owens Illinois is glass giant in the glass business, with more than 20,000 employees and more than 80 factories in over 20 countries. Serving primarily the food and beverage industries, Owen Illinois has been on the Fortune 500 list since it has been established in the 1950’s, with revenues of over 7 billion in 2009 and with the bulk of business occurring outside the United
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