1. Appadurai‚ A. (1990) Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy‚ Journal Theory‚ Culture Society 7: 295-310 (available at NTU ejournals) Appadurai discussed the various situations and differences in the development of global cultural economy. Some cultural problems of homogenization and heterogenization are concentrated. From the perspective of homogenization‚ the argument of Americanization and commoditization which both show great dynamics and differences dependent on different
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Case: AMERICAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION 1. Executive Summary Dixon‚ an American specialty chemical producer‚ wants to buy Collinsville plant from American Chemical Corporation‚ another typical chemical company in 1979. Dixon wants to diversify its product line buy acquiring the aforesaid plant‚ which produces sodium-chlorate to supply to paper producers in Southeastern part of the US. This plant initially cost 12 mln. USD and additional 2‚25 mln. USD needed to buy laminate technology to increase efficiency
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that it is time to talk of something important‚ something that has driven and divided American politics for centuries and will continue to do so: the argument between those who have been called idealists and those who have been labeled realists in U.S. foreign policy. When the United States was in its infancy‚ France experienced a revolution that was in many ways similar to the American Revolution. Some Americans wanted to support the French revolutionaries‚ arguing that the United States had to
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MGT4570 Global Entrepreneurship Case study _TCS: An Entrepreneur Air-Express Company in Pakistan_ Name: Choi Ying Kai SID: 06523393 Date completed: 05-11-2007 Case Background: This case introduces Khalid Awan‚ co-founder of TCS‚ an entrepreneurial air-express company in Pakistan. Awan has succeeded in building a sizeable company despite serious obstacles‚ including pressure from the public postal system‚ an environment prone to corruption‚ and a nonexistent market for venture capital. The
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expression. It doesn’t judge or discriminate‚ and there’s always a piece for you. This‚ of course‚ is music‚ which might be the greatest invention known to humans. Music has become an important part of society throughout the world as people use it to express themselves. All it takes is to listen to the very different and contrasting genres of music we have today. Each different type of genre conveys different meanings. Jazz is associated with relaxation‚ the blues with sorrow‚ and so on. Whatever instrument
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Case Analysis Week 1 American Idol Case Mostafa Morshedi MKT 645 Qualitative Research in Customer Behavior California Intercontinental University Date: 11/18/2012 American Idol Case To perform a prefect marketing research‚ it is needed to identify and define the marketing research problem accurately and then develop a proper approach. The American Idol case is a challenging management decision and marketing research problem case‚ focusing on reasons why to conduct a study on the viewers
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The “American Dream” can be best described as happiness and living in the lap of luxury‚ but the “American Dream” is fictitious. Winter Dreams and The Swimmer both have characters‚ who try to achieve their own perception of the American Dream‚ but in the end‚ fail. The “American Dream” comes with a great cost. F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts that in his short story Winter Dreams. The Swimmer by John Cheever depicts the “American Dream” as something already achieve but then‚ it is lost. The “American Dream”
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· What does the American Dream look like in the 1950s? Was it attainable then? Is it attainable now? (slight refernce to: What societal dysfunctions impede the American Dream?) I don’t really know what the American Dream looked like back in the 1950s‚ as I am not a history buff. But who’s to say the American Dream is attainable if there isn’t a concret definition of what the American Dream is; and I’m not refering to the Webster’s definition of the American Dream. What I mean by definiton is what
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American Connector Company Case Severity of Threat by DJC The American Connector Company (ACC) should be extremely concerned with the im-pending entrance of DJC to the US landscape. Any new entrant will most likely be of the mentality to try and take as much market share as quickly as possible. This course of action usually involves a period of time when the new company will plan on operating at a loss‚ and will thereby be will-ing to price below market average with small margins. Realization of
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According to Fang Zhang analysis‚ Western Digital and Seagate have 90 of HDD market shares (Goodspeed‚ 2012). Since these two companies control majority of HDD market shares‚ team A has decided to do comparative analysis on these two companies. In this paper‚ the financial performance of WDC and STX for years 2011-2014 will be assessed by comparing the financial data of the two companies. The Ratio analysis will be used as a basic tool in financial statement analysis to highlight the significance
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