This case study provides a glimpse at Research in Motion’s (RIM’s) entry into the Chinese market during a time when many distractions—principally a patent dispute with NTP—occupied management’s attention. Norm Lo had been in charge of the Asia Pacific region for eight months, though he had been with RIM for five years. Lo was successful in signing new partners throughout Asia, but China remained a difficult market to crack. One holdup was an impasse with regard to RIM’s use of encryption
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9-805-124 REV: JUNE 7, 2006 STEPHEN P. BRADLEY, THOMAS R. EISENMANN MASAKO EGAWA, AKIKO KANNO NTT DoCoMo, Inc.: Mobile FeliCa With more than 49 million customers and a market share of 56% in Japan, NTT DoCoMo, Inc. was the world’s second-largest and Japan’s top mobile communications company. Nevertheless, DoCoMo faced several challenges in its core business in December 2004. First, with nearly two-thirds of the Japanese population already owning a mobile phone, the market was becoming
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managing NOW! Gary Dessler Florida International University Jean Phillips Rutgers University Houghton Mifflin Company Boston New York To Samantha Vice President, Executive Publisher: George Hoffman Executive Sponsoring Editor: Lisé Johnson Senior Marketing Manager: Nicole Hamm Development Editor: Julia Perez Cover Design Manager: Anne S. Katzeff Senior Photo Editor: Jennifer Meyer Dare Senior Project Editor: Nancy Blodget Editorial Assistant: Jill Clark Art and Design Manager:
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“Turkish Airlines experiences rapid expansion”. This is the title of an article appeared on November 14, 2013 in the Financial Times. In the decade 2003-2013 the company expanded enormously, from 65 to 233 aircrafts, the passenger numbers have more than quadrupled and the number of international destinations grew surprisingly from 76 to 199. (See Exhibit 1) At present, Turkish Airlines appears to be one of the most extensive airline companies with 106 connected countries (the last was added in
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8. Value shop and the service value chain 5 9. Information business and the virtual value chain 5 CHAPTER 2: Initiation of internationalization 8 1. Introduction 8 2. Internationalization motives 8 3. Triggers of export initiation (change agents) 9 4. Internationalization barriers / risks 9 SESSION 2 11 CHAPTER 3: Internationalization theories 11 1. Introduction 11 2. The Uppsala internationalization model 11 3. The transaction cost analysis model 11 4. The network
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is a practical the future is more complex and less predictable than has usually been assumed. underlie typical linguistic change and describes the way large corporations have briefing document, written for educationists, politicians, managers – indeed any decision maker or planning team with a professional interest in the development of English worldwide. The book has been commissioned by the British Council to complement the many texts already available about the teaching and
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marketing campaign in Brazil; rather, they only held one event and communicated to customers through Twitter. Therefore, the Brazil section is composed mostly of what The Swatch Group should do in order to meet their objectives. Furthermore, the cultural dimensions and components that will affect consumers shopping intention in each country will also be analyzed. Finally, based on the differences or similarities among the three countries, recommendations, including the cost-efficiency of adopting
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S T R A T E G Y – II S T R A T E G Y – II S T R A T E G Y – II S T R A T E G Y – II S T R A T E G Y – II www.ibscdc.org 1 Transformation Corporate Transformation Korean Air: Chairman/CEO Yang-Ho Cho’s Radical Transformation A series of fatal accidents, coupled with operational inefficiencies snowballed Korean Air into troubled times. Then, at the beginning of the 21st century, its CEO/ Chairman, Yang-Ho Cho undertook various transformation initiatives - for instance, improving service
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AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - BANGLADESH “An analysis of Factors Influencing the Telecommunication Industry Growth in Bangladesh” A case study of Bangladesh Author: Abdullah Md. Areef AIUB ID: 10-93465-1 Course Instructor: Dr. A. F. M. Masum Rabbani AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY - BANGLADESH “An analysis of Factors Influencing the Telecommunication Industry Growth in Bangladesh” A case study of Bangladesh Author: Abdullah Md. Areef AIUB ID: 10-93465-1 Course Instructor:
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