2009 During the night of 2-3 December 1984, a leak of some 40 tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas mixed with unknown other gasses from a chemical plant owned and operated by Union Carbide (India) Limited, a partly-owned subsidiary of the US-based Union Carbide Corporation, caused one of the highest-casualty industrial accidents of the 20th century. At least 2000 people died immediately and another 200,000 to 300,000 suffered respiratory and other injuries of varying severity. Property damage
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ECONOMICS _____________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK 1: HOW ECONOMISTS THINK * What are preferences? Preferences refer to all of the objectives an individual wants to achieve that might motivate a choice among a set of alternatives. * What does it mean for an individual’s preferences to be rational? Please explain the concepts of costs and benefits and the reasoning process used by a rational individual. A rational individual will
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Information & Management 45 (2008) 257–269 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Information & Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/im IT governance for enterprise resource planning supported by the DeLone–McLean model of information systems success Edward W.N. Bernroider * Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Department for Information Business, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history:
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espousing a country-specific risk analysis and application of a regulative framework for all forms of business relationships. The rationale for adopting the risk-based approach is that a better understanding of the extent, form, production and disposal or use of the proceeds of crime helps to determine the appropriate interventions. Tentative steps towards establishing trends in money laundering and the financing of terrorism have been taken over the past few years. A team of World Bank experts visited
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Reebok disputes sweatshop claims A News item from Business Respect, Issue Number 85, dated 22 Jul 2005 Reebok has described as 'inaccurate and unfair' accusations by the National Labor Committee that workers at its Honduras factory work in sweatshop condictions. The NLC said that Reebok paid only 19 cents to workers for each $75 jersey produced and suffered other treatment such as required pregnancy testing for women workers, and sought to draw attention to its claims through a demonstration outside
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framework developed by this research, this paper discusses the five essential steps for e-commerce success. They are: redefine the competitive advantage; rethink business strategy; re-examine traditional business and revenue models, re-engineer the corporation and Web site; and re-invent customer service. E-commerce planners and strategic managers will be able to use
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Norges Handelshøyskole Bergen, Spring 2011 Master Thesis within the main profile of International Business Thesis Advisor: Professor Svein Ulset Title: International Modes of Entry Subtitle: The Case of Disney By, Carlos Gonzalez Hernandez This thesis was written as a part of the master program at NHH. Neither the institution, the supervisor, nor the censors are -through the approval of this thesis- responsible for neither the theories and methods used, nor results and conclusions drawn in this
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