“Retail Doesn’t Cross Borders” by Marcel Corstjens and Rajiv Lal discusses the trials and tribulations that grocery retailers face when expanding into global markets. The article first covers how immense pressures for growth drive many grocery retailers into internationalization before they are ready or prepared for such an expansion. Due to this unrelenting pressure‚ many plans to globalize end in failure because of lack of preparation and planning for long run success. In fact‚ an econometric study
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Jenny Tae English 100 Professor Nicole Pekarske I’m Sorry‚ What? Robert Samuels‚ “Breaking Down Borders: How Technology Transforms the Private and Public Realms.” Reading Popular Culture pages 9-12 I completely agree with this article that technology makes people oblivious to everything around us and be consumed in our own technology. This article portrays exactly what is becoming of the society with the progressing technological advances. Samuels explains how technology can be a barrier to
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How to deal with the problem of cross-border student from Mainland China in Hong Kong In Hong Kong‚ the number of cross-border student from Mainland China has increased to 17 thousand in this year. However‚ in different aspect such as language‚ culture and household they are different from Hong Kong children. According to some surveys‚ about 80 percentage of the Hong Kong kindergarten teachers point out that ‘The level of speaking Mandarin is better’ is the advantage of the Mainlander. Nevertheless
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The Unspoken Laws: The Construction of Sexual‚ Religious‚ and Gendered Borders in Arturo Islas ’s The Rain God: A Desert Tale The conceptualization of sexual‚ religious‚ and gendered borders has served to write the human standard of living and the societal roles that we have incorporated into our culture to accept as the social norm. These unspoken laws are the architecture to our socio-cultural environment. These laws represent the cement that has carefully bonded the male-female heteronormative
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The state should monitor the actions of people within its borders if such actions pose a threat to the national security. A nation’s security is of an utmost importance to a country as it ensures the survivability of a country. It is with this reason that the government should have a right to monitor the actions of the people within its borders. This refers to individuals who engage in terrorist activities with the aim of conducting terrorist attacks in the country to instill fear in others.
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Impacts of Financial liberalization and innovations in the financial globalizationcross-border listing and carry-trade Introduction Borrowers and investors in public and private sectors always seek for highly profitable opportunities beyond their home countries. After the Second World War‚ a tendency to international cooperation empowered. Financial liberalization‚ technology developments‚ and financial innovations have been the essential drivers for the financial globalization. This paper begins
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are usually like homeless people‚ and don’t like to work. They usually just get on the welfare system‚ and literally make us work and support them. There are three reasons why illegal immigration should be kept banned‚ and that our borders should be more closely watched. The first reason is taxes. One of the first things an illegal immigrant will most likely do once they reach our country is to get on the welfare system. When they get on the welfare system‚ they will raise our countries
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Master Thesis in Finance Mergers and Acquisitions Shareholder wealth effects of domestic‚ cross-border‚ and cross-continental mergers and acquisitions 26 November 2009 Abstract This study analyses the differences in short-term shareholder wealth effects of domestic‚ cross-border and cross-continental mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Differences between wealth effects of domestic and cross-border M&As are expected since companies in crossborder M&As face differences in the economic environment
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Bridging brands and borders: Trends and tactics to connect global brands with Asian consumers This article briefly states the idea of brand internationalization. Whether brands should localize themselves based on the tastes of the market or they should keep their identity intact. The author‚ Craig Briggs states that certain risk is involved when a global company tries and changes too much as per the local tastes. The articles also stresses on instances from the past on Global companies like Starbucks
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“Migration within a country’s borders have greater negative impacts at their origin than their destination”. Discuss the statement [15 marks] Introduction * Definition of migration and internal migration * Reasons why people move (Push/Pull Factors) * Explain Lee’s migration model * Types of Internal Migration (Inter-urban‚ Intra-urban‚ counter urbanisation‚ urbanisation) Body * Social. Economic. Environmental. Political. (S.E.E.P.) impacts * Case Study (Statistics)
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