This text was adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee. Organization The overarching logic of the book is intuitive—organized around answers to the what, where, why, and how of international business. WHAT? Section one introduces what is international business and who has an interest in it. Students will sift through the globalization debate and
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7 8 9—CRK—11 10 09 08 07 BRIEF CONTENTS PREFACE xi PART ONE THE ENVIRONMENT OF MANAGING NOW 1 2 3 4 MANAGING AND THE EVOLUTION OF MANAGEMENT ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES 29 MANAGING IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT 59 MANAGING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION 1 1 89 PART TWO INFORMATION AND DECISION MAKING NOW 5 INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 6 DECISION MAKING NOW 144 116 116
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advantage 2.2 An evaluation of concepts, models and theories relating to strategic choice Case Study: Ciba Vision 2.3 Concepts, models and theories relating to strategic evaluation Case Study: The University of Exeter Self-assessment questions Feedback on self-assessment questions Summary 20 21 Strategic risk management 43 Introduction 3.1 Why strategic risk management is necessary in today’s climate Case Study: Research In Motion 3.2 Assessing and evaluating different types of risk facing the organisation
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Corporate Carbon Strategies Threats and opportunities arising from the new energy imperative Reference Code: BI00036-019 Publication Date: March 2011 1 About the authors Professor Merlin Stone Merlin is Head of Research at The Customer Framework. He is author or co-author of many articles and thirty books and also on the editorial advisory boards of several academic journals. He has a first class honors degree and doctorate in economics from Sussex University, UK. In parallel to his
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Coping with Continuous Change in the Business Environment CHANDOS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SERIES Series Editor: Melinda Taylor (email: melindataylor@chandospublishing.com) Chandos’ new series of books are aimed at all those individuals interested in knowledge management. They have been specially commissioned to provide the reader with an authoritative view of current thinking. If you would like a full listing of current and forthcoming titles, please visit our web site www.chandospublishing
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MKG definition it’s all about sales and market share : it doesn’t say anything about relationship NOW : how can I create value so I will be able to sale more, it’s the only way to survive. To stay alive you need to have a lot of capabilities and tools to survive What is marketing? Marketing includes more than just needs, it’s concerned with providing the right product to the right person at the right moment. That way it creates value. This way it also incorporates innovation. Functions &
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1 LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 Creating Customer Relationships and Value through Marketing UNIQLO: UNIQUe cLOtheS, UNIQUe ShOppING eXperIeNce A hugge Japanese adult consumer preferred luxury brands, whereas the teenage crowd tended to frequent niche fashion shops to stay current with the latest trends. At the time, casual clothing in Japan was thought of as being either affordable but poorly made or of high quality but expensive. The market for casual clothing was also fairly limited, with people
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c MARKETING 7E People real Choices This page intentionally left blank MARKETING 7E People real Choices Michael R. SAINT JOSEPH S SOLOMON ’ U OLLINS NIVERSITY Greg W. MARSHALL R C STUART OLLEGE Elnora W. THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE Prentice Hall Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City Sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong
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Chapter 1: Introduction -Need of the study - Background Chapter 2: Research methodology -Objectives of the study -Research Methodology (sample size, instrument used, Methods of data collection) Chapter 3: Descriptive work of subtopic on study Chapter 4: Data analysis & Interpretation Chapter 5:
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