P1 – Describe the type of business, purpose and ownership of two contrasting businesses The first Business I have chosen is British Airways, because of my interest in travelling. Also, I thought it’d be a very interesting and different company to choose and base my research on. British Airways, often shortened to BA, is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom and it is the largest airline in the United Kingdom based on fleet size. When measured by passengers carried, it is second-largest
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Montgomery’ October 1987 Research Paper No. 969 //~‘L~ 1The authors are, respectively, Assistant Professor of Business Policy, and Robert A. Magowan Professor of Marketing, at the Stanford Business School. We thank Piet Vanden Abeele, Rajiv Lal, Mark Satterthwaite and Birger Wernerfelt for helpfiul discussions on earlier drafts. The Strategic Management Program at Stanford Business School provided financial support. / ~‘N ~ Abstract This article surveys the theoretical and empirical literature
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Marketing Management, Millenium Edition Philip Kotler Custom Edition for University of Phoenix Excerpts taken from: A Framework for Marketing Management, by Philip Kotler Copyright © 2001by Prentice-Hall, Inc. A Pearson Education Company Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 Marketing Management Millenium Edition, Tenth Edition, by Philip Kotler Copyright © 2000 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission
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AN EVALUATION OF COMMUNICATION INTEGRATION WITHIN A STATE-OWNED ORGANISATION by MOALUSI JONAS MAENETJA Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS WITH SPECIALISATION IN ORGANISATIONAL COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AND PRACTICE at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA SUPERVISOR: PROF TC DU PLESSIS JOINT SUPERVISOR: PROF DF DU PLESSIS APRIL 2009 Student number: 697-616-6 DECLARATION I declare that THE EVALUATION OF THE CURRENT
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Schuler and Walker define Human Resource Strategy (HRS) as “a set of processes and activities jointly shared by human resources and line managers to solve business-related problems”. I believe this definition assists on tackling the above question. However, Bamberger and Meshoulam “Conceptualise human resource strategy as an outcome: the pattern of decisions regarding the policies and practices associated with the HR system”. In my view, HRS is a set of ‘processes and activities’ that when implemented
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9-600-006 REV: JANUARY 22, 2003 ROBERT D. AUSTIN DEBORAH SOLE MARK J. COTTELEER Harley Davidson Motor Company: Enterprise Software Selection We were in McDonald’s having our initial SiL’K planning meeting when a gunfight erupted in the parking lot. Bullets started flying through the restaurant. Someone said, ‘Everyone down, lock the doors’. We all hid under the table. I’m lying on the floor looking at Dave and Pat—I’m thinking, Holy Smokes, this is unreal. It was just incredible—a real
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OVERVIEW OF MARKETING MODULE -1 OVERVIEW OF MARKETING OVERVIEW OF MARKETING 1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this module, students should: Know why marketing is important Know what is the scope of marketing Know some of the fundamental marketing concepts Know how marketing management has changed Know what are the necessary tasks for successful marketing management Know scope and importance of marketing Know what are the recent trends of marketing Know what
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distinguish themselves through strategy. The winners will be those that view the Internet as a complement to, not a cannibal of, traditional ways of competing. Strategy and the by Mich36l E. Porter Internet I "^ INTERNET is an extremely important new J technology, and it is no surprise that it has received so much attention from entrepreneurs, executives, investors, and business observers. Caught up in the general fervor, many have assumed that the Internet changes everything, rendering all the
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Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for Africa1 Derrick L. Cogburn, Ph.D. University of Michigan School of Information and Global Information Infrastructure Commission – Africa Catherine Nyaki Adeya, Ph.D. United Nations University Institute for New Technologies Prepared as a working paper for the African Development Forum '99 24-28 October 1999, United Nations Conference Centre United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1 Copyright © 1999 Derrick L. Cogburn (dcogburn@umich
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