Unilever Corporate Crimes Promoting Consumerism Misleading marketing Market domination Procter&Gamble and Unilever reach agreement Pushing the neoliberal agenda and spreading false information Exploiting -relatively cheap- resources in the Third World Promoting unsustainable agriculture Environmental pollution 9. Using consumerism to ‘eradicate’ poverty Taking public space/barring imagination Collaboration with oppressive regimes Hypocritical Health Campaign induced by Self-Interest
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4277 APRIL 4, 2011 JAMES L. HESKETT RICHARD LUECKE Porcini’s Pronto: “Great Italian cuisine without the wait!” In January 2011 Tom Alessio, marketing vice president at Porcini’s, Inc., of Boston, was pondering issues raised by a potential expansion of his company’s restaurant business. The domestic market for full-service chain restaurants was nearing its saturation point at both in-city and shopping mall locations. The big chains were looking overseas for growth, but as a small regional
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Technovation 30 (2010) 291–299 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Technovation journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/technovation Structural ambidexterity in NPD processes: A firm-level assessment of the impact of differentiated structures on innovation performance Matthias de Visser a,Ã, Petra de Weerd-Nederhof a,1, Dries Faems a,2, Michael Song b,3, Bart van Looy c,4, Klaasjan Visscher a,5 a University of Twente, Capitool 15, 7521 PL Enschede, The Netherlands
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Executive Summary Industry and macro-environmental analyses of the international restaurant industry provides an overview of the industry and reveals the conditions that impact competitiveness and profitability of the industry’s players. The industry is split in two sectors: full-service restaurants (FSR) and limited-service restaurants (LSR). FSRs typically have a wait-staff; LSRs do not have wait-staff. The top five countries, in terms of total number of foodservice outlets, are: China, India
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Standardized and Localized Strategies and the Role of Culture in Marketing and Consumption Delroy A. Jefferson This paper is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for International Marketing Doctorate of Business Administration SMC University Dr. Babu P. George July 26, 2014 Abstract The paper seeks to examine the arguments surrounding the issue of standardization versus localization as it highlights specific advantages and disadvantages of both as obtained from
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4277 APRIL 4, 2011 JAMES L. HESKETT RICHARD LUECKE Porcini’s Pronto: “Great Italian cuisine without the wait!” In January 2011 Tom Alessio, marketing vice president at Porcini’s, Inc., of Boston, was pondering issues raised by a potential expansion of his company’s restaurant business. The domestic market for full-service chain restaurants was nearing its saturation point at both in-city and shopping mall locations. The big chains were looking overseas for growth, but as a small regional
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Geographical Pressures To Deviate From Franchise Formats: Some Evidence From The UK JULIET COX* and COLIN MASON** Abstract. There is a tension in business format franchising between, on the one hand, standardisation and uniformity and, on the other hand, geographical variations in market conditions and resource availability. Previous research has demonstrated in the case of independent small firms that local geographical conditions influence business strategy. This paper examines whether
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THE ROLE OF PERSONAL VALUES IN AN ADVANCED PERSPECTIVE OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT Author: Salvatore Moccia Universidad de Valencia Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relation between personal values and the principles of Total Quality Management and thus to propose a tentative framework of relationships. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is conceptual. It reviews some lists of values present in literature, and summarizes them in a more comprehensive list. Then it
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------------------------------------------------- 497 Study Guide Module I: Industry & Competitive Analysis “Porter’s Five Forces”: 1. What is strategy (fundamental question in strategic management) a. How to achieve superior financial performance 2. Why industry Analysis? b. Industry analysis helps a firm understand the underlying economic forces that contribute to or detract from its profitability, and subsequently suggests a means for firm to find an optimal
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1. Introduction HSBC is named after its founding member, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, which was established in 1865 to finance the growing trade between Europe, India and China. In the early years of the 20th century, HSBC widened its activities in the East and became increasingly involved in the issuing of loans to national governments, especially in China, to finance modernisation and internal infrastructure projects such as railway building. In the later years of the
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