Wal-Mart’s acquisition of Massmart: will the effects be detrimental rather than beneficial? The recently approved acquisition of a 51% stake in Massmart by Wal-Mart has brought about a lot of speculation as to whether this deal will mainly positively impact South Africa’s GDP or not. By investing in the African market‚ Wal-Mart will to a greater extent impact South Africa’s labour market as well as lead to the growth of the retail industry at a faster rate‚ thus positively impacting growth in the
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2.2 CHRYSLER CORPORATION: NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN DAIMLER AND CHRYSLER In January 1998‚ Jürgen Schrempp‚ CEO of Daimler-Benz A.G.‚ approached Chrysler Corporation’s chair and chief executive officer (CEO)‚ Robert Eaton‚ about a possible merger‚ acquisition‚ or deep strategic alliance between their two firms. As Schrempp argued: The two companies are a perfect fit of two leaders in their respective markets. Both companies have dedicated and skilled work forces and successful products‚ but in different
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Second Language Acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis When learning a second language a native-like level is hardly ever reached. Various research has been conducted into this phenomenon which has resulted in a number of hypotheses concerning the possible cause thereof. One of these is the Critical Period Hypothesis which states that there is an optimum period for learning a second language that ends after puberty. Can the Critical Period Hypothesis adequately explain why people acquiring
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MECHANICS OF MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Change is ubiquitous in contemporary society‚ and nowhere more so than in the operations of the large-scale‚ public corporation. Dramatic changes are underway‚ not only in the structure of corporate activity in areas such as the nature of work and the nature of organizational form‚ but also in the product and financial markets and the regulatory environment within which corporations operate. The depth and rapidity of these changes compel a reassessment of
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Speech (motherese); CHILDES 5. Gordon Wells & The Bristol Project ============================================================== Summary of Theories of First Language Acquisition Three broad theories of L1 acquisition: 1. behaviourist (e.g.‚ Stimulus-response conditioning- Skinner) 2. innatist (e.g.‚ Universal Grammar- Chomsky) 3. interactionist (e.g.‚ Constructional learning- Tomasello) 1. Behaviourism Behaviourism doesn’t explain
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Second Language Acquisition Second language acquisition or second language learning is the process by which humans all over the world learn a second language in addition to their native languages. Second language‚ target language or L2 are all synonyms which are used to refer to any language learned in addition to the native language called mother tongue‚ first language or L1. Furthermore‚ second language acquisition can also include a third language‚ which is then called heritage language or multilingualism
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GEELY’s ACQUISITION of VOLVO 1. Introduction to the Case This Case is about * The Automotive Industry of China * The acquisition of “Volvo” by “Geely” (a Chinese firm) * Geely is an automotive company in China‚ which was engaged in producing non-luxury cars for its local market in the country since 1998. * Li Shufu was the founder of the company‚ who was basically a poet and has a philosophical attitude towards life. * The time of the case is year 2010. 2. Situational
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The following are the other important reasons for mergers or amalgamations: 1. Economies of scale. An amalgamation company will have more reasons at its command that the individual companies. This will help in increasing the scale of operations and the economies of large scale will be available. These economies will occur because of more intensive utilization of production facilities‚ distribution network‚ research and development facilities‚ etc. these economies will be available in horizontal
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SUBJECT ASSIGNMENT: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Name and surname(s): Heber Guerrero Giron Login: PEFPMTFL966476 Group: 31 Date: February 29‚ 2012 INTRODUCTION Second language acquisition is a process by which people learn a second language. It refers to any language learned in addition to the first language and the
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On December 2011‚ Whirlpool accused Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. of "dumping" washers made in Korea and Mexico into the U.S. market at prices below their production costs. According to Korea Yoongang Daily‚ Whirlpool determined that Samsung and LG have sold large washers in the U.S. at “dumping margins of 9.29 percent to 82.41 percent.” After investigating from January 2012‚ the US government reached to decision was a 9.29% tariff was imposed on Samsung Electronics and 13.02% on
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