DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT Chinese culture‚ Chinese corporation culture and innovation How does a corporation implement innovation properly? Hengsong.TU & Xin.YUAN 06.2010 Master’s Thesis 1 Abstracts: 文化反映在人类生活中的很多方面，诸如做事情方式，沟通的礼节， 教育，历史事件，经济状况等等方面。在很大方面，一个国家的文化 会影响到企业的经营方式。通过当前比较流行的霍夫特德的文化区分 理论，我们了解到中国的文化特点体现为比较长的权利距离，集体主 义倾向，更男性化，强调风险规避以及考虑长期目标。因此，中国的 企业也长期处在中国文化的影响中，表现起来就是中国的企业更强调 集体文化，以及把企业当作家的思想。企业中存在许多的规章制度以 及等级观念，员工的晋升与个人的成就和服从相关联。通过这篇文 章，我们在一系列文献整理的基础上，更好的了解中国文化和中国企
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AutoZone Case Questions How has AutoZone’s stock price performed over the previous five years? What other financial measures can you cite that are consistent with the stock price performance? How does a stock repurchase work? Why would a company use this tactic? What impact does it have on: EPS? ROIC? How much of AutoZone’s stock price performance should we attribute to the share repurchase program? Assume that AutoZone is planning to stop its share repurchase program. What would be the best alternative
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value gathered from cost savings in five years. 3. How much value lies in improved revenues? As shown in the Excel above‚ the improved revenue accumulated in five years is 12‚167. 4. What additional factors should be included in the ROI analysis? There are many assumptions and factors we need to consider to calculate the ROI: • Can all the growth rate and inflation rate be very constant in the five years? • How much will the switching cost be to use the new IT system? • How will the
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SECTORAL ANALYSIS: LUGGAGE INDUSTRY IN INDIA Contents Luggage Market – Overview ......................................................................................................................... 3 Drivers: ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 Challenges: ........................................................................................................................
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SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) was established in 1976‚ and the main reason behind its establishment was to add value better and improve the Saudi Arabia’s natural hydrocarbon resources. Currently‚ SABIC is leading petrochemical company in terms of product diversity and sales. The company is headquartered in Riyadh‚ and it is the largest non-oil corporation in Middle East‚ in terms of market capitalization‚ SABIC has more than $100 billion and it records
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companies in the world. Unfortunately‚ Pfizer faced challenges by macro-environment forces that affect their sales volume decline dramatically in 2011. PESTEL‚ Porter’s Five Forces and Industry Lift Cycle frameworks to be applied to analysis the broad macro-environment that affected Pfizer in the pharmaceutical industry. 1. PESTEL framework PESTEL (Appendix I) is classifies into six environmental influences including Political‚ Economic‚ Social & Cultural‚ Technological‚ Environmental and
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Business Case for ERP 1. Cost-Benefit Analysis for ERP 2. Can ERP Provide a Competitive Advantage? f. The Challenge of Implementing an ERP System g. Summary ANSWERS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS Questions for Discussion: 1. Use on-line library databases to identify articles in trade publications which provide case studies of ERP implementations. These articles may provide some insight into each of these questions. a. How widespread is the use of ERP across certain industries? b. What
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INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY ANALYSIS FOOTWEAR – Industry Analysis Professor: Adriano Freire Miguel Teixeira-Pinto 152110132 CATÓLICA - LISBON International Industry Analysys 1) Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 3 2) Introduction..........................................................................................................................................
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where The analysis of platinum industry based on Porter’s Five Forces model reflect the extent to which the bargaining power of suppliers is limited since there are number of contracting companies providing goods and services to the few platinum mines. However there’s high level of entry barriers in the market due to the large capital investment required to establish the platinum mine with limited access to platinum as the resources. There’s relative low threat of substitute in this industry. in
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