Corporate Social Responsibility – Seminar Work Apple Inc. Current company position including market size/share 90% of the market is controlled by the top 10 manufacturers‚ Apple being the most profitable. During the fourth quarter of 2012‚ Apple took 70% of all profits generated by the smartphone market while Samsung trailed at a distant second with 25%. Q2 2014 – Apple (iOS) controls 11.9% of current smartphone market share whilst Samsung dominates 25.2%‚ however Apple are actually more profitable
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CORPORATE HISTORY. Akio Morita‚ Masaru Ibuka‚ and Tamon Maeda (Ibuka’s father- in- law) started Tokyo telecommunications Engineering in 1946 with funding from Morita’s father’s sake business. The company produced the first Japanese tape recorder in 1950. Three years later‚ Morita paid Western Electric (US) $25‚000 for transistor technology licenses‚ which sparked a consumer electronics revolution in Japan. His firm launched one of the first transistor radios in 1955‚ followed by the first
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Ribbon Sports‚ later renamed Nike‚ in 1964. The idea‚ born as a result of a paper written by Knight during his Stanford MBA program‚ was to import athletic shoes from Japan into the U.S. market otherwise dominated by German competitors Puma and Adidas. The company initially operated as a distributor for a Japanese athletic shoe company‚ Onitsuka Tiger‚ but also developed its own brand of athletic footwear to promote in the American market. The company’s relationship with Onitsuka Tiger ended
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The Middle East region includes the Arabic peninsula‚ Cyprus‚ the countries on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea‚ Iran in the north-east‚ and Egypt in the south-west. It is a densely populated region that concentrates huge material and human resources. Surfing from Internet site to Internet site I have found that Internetworking in the Middle East region has a well established system that may accelerate the diffusion of culture in this area. For example‚ at the end of January Internet access
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Marketing: An Integrative Framework Isabelle Maignan Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam‚ the Netherlands O. C. Ferrell Colorado State University This article introduces a conceptualization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) that emphasizes the role and potential contribution of the marketing discipline. The proposed framework first depicts CSR initiatives as the actions undertaken to display conformity to both organizational and stakeholder norms. Then
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Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies Examine Apple’s current position on the company’s ethical and social responsibilities‚ and determine whether or not the company has met these responsibilities. Provide two (2) examples that support your position. In addition to maximizing profits‚ one of the main objectives to many corporations today is to be well known for their responsible management and ethical performance. Apple is one of the most important companies throughout the world because
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The main issue relates to corporate entity or personality‚ a company being a legal entity independent of its members‚ can enter into contracts and own property in its own right‚ can sue and be sued and also taxed in its own name. The principle of corporate entity was established in the case of Salomon v A. Salomon ‚ now referred to as the ‘Salomon’ principle. The facts of this case were that the owner of a business sold it to a company he had formed‚ in return for fully paid-up shares to himself
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Business Case study Analysis Adidas-Salomon AG Management 670 Professor Jon Gettman Edsel Washington Table of Contents Executive Summary [Titled Overview of Analysis]…………………………………………………………………………………………. Background………………………………………………………………………………............. Identification of Strategy of Adidas……………………………………………………………………………………………. Analysis of Adidas Performance...…..………………………………………………………………....
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Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies Deanna Williams Dr. Antony Jacob Contemporary Business July 21‚ 2014 Social and ethical responsibility is how a company will use all its resources in a way that will benefit people and society not only physically but also socially. Social responsibility is defined as “The idea that businesses should not function amorally‚ but instead should contribute to the welfare of their communities”. Social responsibility covers not only shareholders but
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