strategies that are efficient and cost-effective. These organizations are flexible and compete by offering top products tailored to segments of the market while keeping costs as low as possible. They may have multiple headquarters spread throughout the world and have a decentralized decision making structure. The location of each facility is based on the ability to effectively, efficiently, and flexibly produce a product or service base using cultural difference as an advantage. Global organizations threats
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Macedonia. The last world financial crises had a big negative impact on the world economy, especially in the financial industry. However, the Republic of Macedonia didn’t suffered big financial implications in the financial industry, mainly because the investments in this sector are still underdeveloped and also the current financial actors are not active in the world financial markets. However the financial institutions’ marketing communications is showing changes in the world and in Macedonia, too
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© 2003 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NEC used its core competencies to achieve what most companies only attempt: Invent new markets, exploit emerging ones, delight customers with products they hadn’t even imagined—but definitely needed. Think of a diversified company as a tree: the trunk and major limbs as core products, smaller branches as business units, leaves and fruit as end products. Nourishing and stabilizing everything is the root system:
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Introduction This paper will focus on Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and the deregulation versus anti-competitive conduct. In Section I we will discuss the history of VoIP and how it has developed into a standard communication device using traditional telephone lines and tech savvy software. This will be an overview of what the primary intentions for inventing the software and who the pioneers were that patented and launched this successful tangible apparatus, which is used by over 6
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Introduction Globalization is a common word of a major issue in today’s world. It may be referred to many phenomenon consuming politics, technology, corporate strategy, markets, trading, and consumer behavior (Nooteboom 1999, 56). This article is to understand the concept and behavioral changes as a result of globalization towards tourism and hospitality industry in order to construct wider understanding of its negative and positive impacts. Globalization, as a meaning of its term, clearly stated
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on Sept. 21 on “How the Internet Is Changing Our Social, Political, and Economic Lives.” The following is an edited transcript of his remarks. “How the Internet Is Changing Our Social, Political, and Economic Lives” Thank you. I am overwhelmed at this turnout. I don’t think it’s for me. You must be interested in this Internet thing we’re all talking about. But before we talk about all this, I’m going to tell you a little bit about how I got interested in the Internet, and how this ties into
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literacy. Social Media Impact and Implications on Society By Nick Pernisco, SJMLE Editor In the past five years, social media websites have become ubiquitous, giving young people a new way to interact with each other and communicate with the world. This new form of communication depends on usercreated content, not mass produced messages coming from large media companies. But as with other media before it, social media's rise to prominence has experienced some very serious growing pains. Companies
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Personal Finance It is important to plan the finance for any regular expenditure such as the basic needs of any person like food, clothes, accommodation, bills etc. To be able to for fill all your personal needs you must have some kind of personal income, which will cover these expenses. The sources of personal income might be: Salary or wages =============== A regular earned income from employment, for these earnings the employee and the employer both have to pay a deduction
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Seminar San Jose State University San Jose CA. 95129 April 7 th 2000 Is Microsoft a Monopoly? 1 This would occur in the case natural monopoly in which economies of scale result in a single firm producing at a lower cost than a large number of smaller competitive firms. 1 Since the beginning of the antitrust trial against Microsoft there has been a great deal of commentary and analysis concerning the market position, pricing and strategic behavior of Microsoft. The courts Finding of Fact and
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What is social media? What comes into your mind when asked about social media? What is it about social media that attracted quite a lot of students in this new era? According to the Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, social media are “forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and micro-blogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)”. No wonder why students nowadays are so caught up in technology
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