Effects of Individual and Product-specific Variables on Utilising Country of Origin as a Product Quality Cue by Effects of Individual and Product-specific Variables 27 Received November 1987 Revised March 1988 Sevgin A. Eroglu Georgia State University‚ and Karen A. Machleit University of Cincinnati To date‚ considerable research effort has been made to determine whether country of origin affects consumers ’ product evaluations. Previous studies in industrial (for example White‚ 1977;
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Greece The country of Greece is one of the oldest in the world‚ ranging back to 3‚000 B.C. when inhabitants settled in its lands; the ancient Greek language dates back even older by 500 years‚ in which the modern Greek language evolved from. Greece shaped the ancient and modern worlds as we know it‚ especially in the context of western civilization and thought‚ and with a direct impact on the governing concept of democracy. This paper will explore an outline of Greek history‚ its people‚ and
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Date: April 18‚ 2012 Subject: Book Review The book “Imperial Germany 1871-1918” by Volker R. Berghahn has the under title Economy‚ Society‚ Culture and Politics and was first published in 1994 by Berghahn books. The used edition is the revised and expanded edition published in 2005 and summarizes the events in the ‘Kaiserreich’ (1871-1918). Furthermore‚ the book has 388 pages and is divided in five parts which are Economy‚ Society‚ Culture‚ the Realm of Politics‚ and World War
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motive and logic behind the control of music in the Third Reich. The second subject to be discussed is the various ways in which the Nazi party controlled and used music. Finally‚ we will analyze the effectiveness of the control of music in Nazi Germany. Why was music controlled and used by the Nazi Party? To answer this question‚ we must first look at the significance of music in Germany’s cultural history. Many of the great composers were German; Mozart‚ Bach‚ Beethoven‚ Haydn‚ Schubert and
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Book Burning In a reaction to the Nazi book burning‚ Helen Keller once wrote in a letter to the students of Germany saying‚ “History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before‚ and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them.” Right before World War II students from universities across Germany gathered to burn books. Book burning is lighting of fire to books or other written material‚ in a public area. It is usually done
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Upon examination‚ the dissectioning of the philosophical spectra of Nazi Germany during the Second World War holds fundamental discrepancy of core beliefs in the ruling of the social construct. With specification‚ the rise in German Nazism posed challenges in keeping previously enlightened philosophical prospects; the idea of a superior race scrutinizes the condemning of the inferior race by means of exercising the belief of utilitarianism‚ and the social discourse valued in the predetermined designation
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Eduard Romanenko‚ Li Guoxu‚ Denion Galimuna Country Profile: Singapore With the population of only 5.18 million people and the total area of 710 sq km (189th among other countries)‚ as of 2010 according to the World Bank database‚ Singapore is the 14th largest exporter and the 15th largest importer in the world. The total trade volume of the country in 2010 comprised USD 662‚ 658 bln contributing to trade to GDP ratio of 317.42%‚ the highest in the world. As Figure 1 demonstrates‚ since 1981 the
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1 Günter Schweiger‚ Thomas Otter and Andreas Strebinger The influence of country of origin and brand on product evaluation and the implications thereof for location decisions Dr. Günter Schweiger is Professor of Advertising and Market Research and Head of the Department of Marketing at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration)‚ Austria. Mag. Thomas Otter is research assistant in the Department of Advertising and Market Research at Wirtschaftsuniversität
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Economic conditions 1933 Trade * Germany depended heavily on its ability to sell manufactured goods. * The demand for German exports declined and its sale of manufactured goods‚ collapsed * The value dropped from 13.5 billion Reischmarks in 1929 to 4.9 billion in 1933. Employment * The industrial contraction was mass long-term unemployment. * Even before the Great Depression‚ workers were being laid off and in 1929 the unemployment was 1.9 million * The length and severity
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Unification of Germany was made possible largely by Bismarck‚ as there were other factors prior to his policies that had able Germany to be unified as one. Firstly‚ the Crimean War has caused the collapsing of the Congress of Vienna‚ which in turn resulted‚ to having ’freed’ individual small German states to be on their own. This factor created a window of opportunity to Prussia and Bismarck as the small states could be easily brought under the Prussian Empire‚ if necessary with the help of the
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