Business Essays

The author states that the hosting industry provides both physical spaces for the servers and supporting services that remove the hassle of maintaining hardware or hiring personnel to make Internet applications work. The business of Servervault was started in early 1999 when Patrick Sweeney convinced Jim Zinn to carve a niche in the hosting industry.

On September 25, 1973, Smith turned 18, which was the age of majority. Smith made 10 monthly payments after turning 18. He then decided to disaffirm the contract and stopped making the payments

Concurring with the aforementioned, Beer has forwarded Total Quality Management as the optimal international business management strategy. An analytical review of the root disciplines from which TQM derives validates Beer's assertion. To establish the correlation between TQM and IB, this essay will begin with a brief definition and overview of the latter.

Experts say that minority consumers show a high degree of loyalty. When a business addresses their need directly, it can have an enormous impact. The explosion of ethnic and racial populations across the U.S. has caused the business to realize that targeting minorities are a sound business practice.

Most of the people surveyed said that they used the internet from their university while a little lesser was the number of people who used it off their home and another 6 people used it from other locations, like common browsing centers, libraries, etc., Usage of internet at home and at the university is similar though there is an increased trend towards using it more at the University still continues.

The precise dictates of the territoriality principle remain in dispute. While some understand it to recognize that inevitably, a mark in one country symbolizes the domestic goodwill of the entity which stands behind the entity in that country, others interpret it merely to mean that domestic law governs the rights of domestic trademark registrants. 

On the other hand, employees face problems such as childcare costs and quality, transportation costs (gasoline, maintenance, traffic, etc.), and other issues due to commuting to their places of employment. The business case for this project involves CCL Corporation which employs 200 people.  The managers of CCL cannot retain quality employees. 

Profitability is all about analyzing whether the business making money and earning a satisfactory return on its investment or not. The following ratios would help us better understand the profitability of the WPP PLC. Profitability is the one area where, without exception, the higher the ratios the better.

GATT 1994 Article XIII permits quantitative restrictions for industry protection purposes except in times of crisis. The article further states the application of prohibitions and restrictions on import and export between member countries and to certain commodities. However, the use of prohibitions and quotas has been emphasized by GATT. 

The Bank has built up leading market positions in a number of areas, in particular in the high margin, high growth segments, which form the key focus of its activities. EFG Eurobank Ergasias is Greece’s leading provider of consumer loans and credit cards, lending to small and medium-sized enterprises and mutual fund management.

Wireless service providers continue to make huge strides in competing in a growing market. Vodafone PLC is on its way to maintain its position as the largest provider in the world. The company has all the necessary resources to sustain the current growth. Its financial standing is healthy despite recording profit loss in 2006. 

Williams Company develops energy technologies, natural gas and liquids, crude oil, refined products and electricity. Also, it has been involved in FDI activity in "international energy projects located in South America and Lithuania". Some years ago, having a great potential Williams Company accepted a new business strategy aimed to penetrate into a large Energy Marketing and Trading business.

The business world today is complicated and competitive than ever before and operates in a very volatile external environment. Due to this, building healthy and strong relationships is very important for laying the foundation of the business, moreover, the long term success and growth of the business networks depend on trust and commitment.

The main purpose for companies to put businesses is for them to generate profits. It is also in this light that the shareholders will generate more income from the cash dividends as well as the stock dividends that the company gives them. The shareholders are composed of the stockholders who have invested their hard-earned money in the business.

This article reflects on the rationalization for government participation in the economy and how preferences are made about the responsibility of the public sector and the policy implication of such in creating an argument.  At the start, this paper takes an overview of the position and responsibility of the State in the economy and then utilizes economic theory and confirmation for analyzing key areas of government policy. 

To understand these two economic aspects that affect firms and industries it is worth noting that every economic system is always confronted by a situation where they have to choose from the various ways of initializing the basic factors of production that is land, labour and capital.

To achieve and maintain this homogeneity, there should be a drive towards symbiotic relationship between modern market and globalization. Because there has been a spread of consumer capitalism to non- Americanized cultures, hence their policies must be standardized by the practice of accounting and financial management.

The objective of the study is to find out if the autocratic style of leadership will prove to be effective for organizations considering the fast-paced time we are now into.  Different works of literature will be evaluated and cited to compare and contrast studies from various organizations with different leadership styles will be useful for this research.   

"The profitability of London chain hotels fell by 16.9 per cent in February, according to the latest HotStats survey by TRI Hospitality Consulting. London hotels generated daily profit - expressed as income before fixed charges (IBFC) - of £47.75 per available room compared to £57.46 the same month a year earlier."  (Hospitality Trends, 2009)

The economists and others had well predicted the happening of the present crisis sufficiently early. The regulators do not seem to have given proper regulations for the fancy credit derivative namely CDS, a structured financial instrument. Further, financial institutions and other people relied on this instrument, as insurance for credit risk.

New business processes coupled with new information systems which leverage the fast-growing Internet channel will allow the APCO company to meet its strategic goals for the future “The system must simplify and speed up the business processes in order to support the planned growth of the company, increase customer service, and reduce costs.”

The application of Hofstede's theory of the five cultural dimensions (Hofstede) yields a first appraisal of the Latin culture in this context. In general, the rating for each of the five dimensions is high for Latin countries. Hofstede's Power-Distance rating for Latin countries indicates that there is a stronger tendency towards autocracy and paternalism.

The emergence of direct marketing, customer relationship management, and various other marketing disciplines underline the importance of this approach. Recent years the sending of marketing materials to individuals (direct marketing ) is regulated in the USA and Europe (Turban, King, Lee, Viehland, 2004).

The main strength of Starbucks lies in its scope, brand, and size. With its commitment to provide quality products and exceptional experience to its customers, the company has grown to become the largest player in the speciality coffee industry and has gained the recognition of being one of the finest brands.

A Conference on Global Branding in the 21st century is in the sense that it will not be speaking from the mainstream global branding which is marked by the imprints of high-technology and developments. But it will be highlighting the possibility of something old, something local being a powerful force to reckon with in the global market. And no other company carries that laurel except Coca-Cola Company.

For this particular study marketing concept adopted is Nigel F. Piercy’s Market-Led Strategic Change. Marketing concepts may be explained as a philosophy and as in a technological perspective manner. The whole proposal is presented from the perspective of the new marketing concept of market-led strategic change.

Examples of hypothetical and real situations will be used to illustrate personal understanding and interpretation. The contention is that this theory can only work positively in business decisions if all parties concerned operate from the same rational basis, with similar moral values.

The author states that the electronics industry will undoubtedly face competition from China, India and South East Asia, as more work is outsourced to these regions. Domestic organizations also find it difficult to adapt to this change because of the stricter legislation they face in terms of operating procedures.

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Decision making is the art of making a strategic, tactical, and technical choice in the course and flow of the business operations to uphold particular practices and policies or procedures of a certain business enterprise. It takes a lot of considerations as to the effects it will have on the employee, the business operations and workflow, the customers.

Before my interest in coaching as a career, I decided to have some reflections on some short term goals. But when I had the first coaching session, I was blown away! Soon I realised that I had inside of me what I “knew” I could achieve prior to the session. I realized I was suppressed by imaginary talking gremlins. 

The Company is exploring the possibilities of expanding its operations into the African country of Medco Republic. This country has until quite recently been inflicted by conflicts and regarded politically unstable. This report becomes necessary in view of the earlier political instability prevailed in the country.

The derivatives increased from £277.4 billion in 2007 to £992.5 billion in 2008. Even if the auditors did not understand the actual valuation of derivatives, they should have questioned this sudden three-fold increase. ISA 330 gives the right to the auditors to test the stress on the assets and extend the audit scope amidst such observations.

The key purposes of this research are to: Understand why loyalty programmes are important; Undertake review of literature to examine what constitutes loyalty; Examine how loyalty programmes are designed; Examine the factors affecting the success and failure of loyalty programmes and Evaluate if loyalty programmes are necessary for loyal customers to exist

Outsourcing allows American companies to supervise those who are not members of the bar to be supervised by those who are members of the bar; effectively making the Indian Associates comparable to the US legal students. The market for outsourced legal work was expected to cross $ 163 billion by 2006 and India has been the leading market in this context.

Swire Pacific got a global presence in the aviation industry through being the major shareholder in Cathy Pacific Airways which boast with over 120 destinations around the globe. It which offers passenger and cargo services, and its based in Hong Cathy Pacific has invested in the Hong Kong International Airport $1billion more than its competitors , to strengthen its position as a global airline hub and entry point to mainland China to improve tourist, cargo and business traffic flows.

Human resource is an equally important aspect along with other resources that aid the success of any organization. Human resource involves all the employees working inside the organization. “The objective of Human Resources is to maximize the return on investment from the organization's human capital and minimize financial risk.”

Secondary data will be accessed through the University Library and Information Service using a selection of commercial bibliographic databases and Internet search engines and directories. The literature review will be written based on the sources retrieved.

Audits – are assurance services defined as examinations of evidence for the purpose of providing an independent assessment of governance, risk management, and control processes for the organization. Examples include financial, performance, compliance, systems security, and due diligence engagements.

As we surge towards the Information Age, the importance of knowledge is increasingly magnified. As people become more educated, they ask for more involvement in the decisions that will affect their lives. As Cleveland (1985) has explained, “Knowledge is power, as Francis Bacon wrote.… So, the wider the spread of knowledge, the more power gets diffused.

Cultural influences play a vital role in the organismal organizational allopathy work environment instigates happiness and motivation to perform. Increased and effective cooperation between men and women at the workplace, a better awareness of gender differences, building different leadership styles etc.

In this particular case, this study will look into four key aspects of this kind of analysis. This would ensure whether the said move of these ventures with regards to its Human Resource Management Schemes would be an effective move if we are to deal with the effectiveness and welfare of the Human Resource in the company.

 The term 'the stock market is a notion for the system that enables the trading of company stocks (collective shares), other securities, as well as derivatives. Bonds are still traditionally traded in a casual, over-the-counter market identified as the bond market. Commodities are traded in commodities markets, with derivatives trading in a diversity of markets.

The debate on principles (or concepts)-based accounting standards is concerned with the possible changes that FASB wants to make on U.S. GAAP, transforming the accounting standards from one that is characterised as rules-based into one that would be principles-based, the characteristic shared by other international accounting standards such as U.K.

It is the most misunderstood too. Among many other constructs, customer loyalty is used interchangeably with customer repeat purchasing behavior and customer retention (Hennig-Thurau and Hansen, 2000). There is always a reason for customer loyalty, it is believed, which behavior differs from the one purchase to the next, and are not accidental (Ibid.).

The word globalization can be interpreted variously. It is whereby societies in the world move into a one, merged entity. There is an integration of ideas and movement of goods too. The aim of this phenomenon is to produce seamless societies. As the world becomes more homogenous, differences between societies are set to fade away.

The economic system of a country attributes to its economic development. Economic system has certain characteristics, which decides the various methodologies of consumption and distribution of products and services. It is of different types and every state plays an important role in deciding the kind of economic system it should implement.

In general, changing the nature of the workforce will include changes in the composi­tion of the working population. These variables serve as 'entry points' and organisational change can be initiated by alteration of any one, or a combination, of these variables. The implementation of change can be approached.

The ability of a firm to generate profits can be assessed by working out the profitability ratios for a historical period and by analyzing the sources of income. The gross profit margin, operating profit margin, and net income as a percentage of total turnover present a realistic view of the firm’s ability to generate profits.

TCFL has been a stand-alone business although setting off Town and Country Flooring (Norfolk) Limited, also known as TCFN, which traded prosperously in Norfolk. Both the companies enjoy a general principle which states that they would benefit from operating under a common ‘Town and Country’ banner. The company was incorporated in 1984.