By Frederik Balfour Guanxi. It’s the first word any businessperson learns upon arriving in China. Loosely translated‚ guanxi means "connections" and‚ as any China veteran will tell you‚ it is the key to everything: securing a business license‚ landing a distribution deal‚ even finding that coveted colonial villa in Shanghai. Fortunes have been made and lost based on whether the seeker has good or bad guanxi‚ and in most cases a positive outcome has meant knowing the right government official‚ a relationship
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The difference between the Greek culture and the Roman culture? * There are many differences between the two cultures‚ in fact‚ so many that they cannot all be told. One difference is that Greek culture was exceedingly older than Roman culture. To start things out‚ the Greek civilization was in existence long before Rome became a civilization. Rome began as a few farming communities on the banks of the Tiber river‚ and the civilization grew and grew and started to conquer land. As well‚ Rome was
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Chinese Culture - The Culture of Shanghai Shanghai University 30.11.2012 Shanghai – Brief Overview Shanghai is an important commercial harbor and the most important industrial town of the People ’s Republic of China. The administrative area has more than 23 million inhabitants. The status of the town corresponds to that of a province; the town is subordinated directly of the central government. Shanghai is an important traffic interchange and an important cultural center and educational
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"Discuss the components of working memory." J. Q. Student Working memory is a structured process that stores information‚ whilst also allowing the dynamic manipulation of information so that the brain is able to connect in verbal and nonverbal tasks such as reasoning‚ learning and comprehension. Furthermore‚ working memory makes information available for further processing. The concept of a working memory stemmed from criticism of Atkinson and Shiffrin’s (1968) multi-store model of memory
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companies were made based on specified calculations. Here‚ the accountancy status of the companies can be seen as in the pages below. Besides obtaining the accountancy status of various named companies‚ this study allows one to have a clear view of how these companies are economically and whether these companies are worth investing in or not‚ or whether these companies are accountably managed or not. CHAPTER 2 i Company Background a) Bank Negara Malaysia
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PRINCIPAL OF MARKETING NOTES IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR FINAL EXAMINATION UNIT I 1. What is meant by marketing? Explain the nature of marketing 2. Explain the functions or scope and classification of marketing. 3. What are the concepts of marketing. 4. What is meant by marketing mix? Explain its features. 5. What are differences between selling concept and marketing concept. 6. Write about the principles of marketing mix. 7. Explain the factors influencing marketing mix. 8. Explain the importance of
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one of their very first performances. They were not just a band that gave us great songs.My aim today is to tell you about the musical‚ social‚ and cultural contributions of The Beatles‚ even if you think they are overrated or hate them‚ you won’t be able to deny their significance. The Beatles have a humble beginning for a band that became world famous.They began as a group of teenagers who shared passion for music. On a spring day in Liverpool 1957 John Lennon formed a band. A few months later Paul
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The History of British pop/rock The Beatles and the British Invasion It would be suffice to say that the British experience of pop music was quite different from the American. Britpop also know as British alternative rock‚ was part of a British alternative rock movement that was in the 1990s‚ the term "Britpop" had been used as early as 1987 but it wouldn’t be until 1995 when the term exploded and was used extensively. It was characterized by the appearance of bands that borrowed influences from
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“There is no such thing as Natural Good.” Discuss how far you agree. Many say that natural law means observable law relating to natural experience and also a body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct. There is believed to be two main meanings to natural law‚ one by St. Thomas Aquinas‚ and another by Aristotle. However Aquinas based his theory on the theory of Aristotle. Aristotle believed that what is a natural good can be found through our experience‚ and our
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I think countries should be able to own parts of the ocean. I think they should because if they didn’t own it random people could be downing random and potentially harmful things. If countries didn’t own water‚ there wouldn’t be laws for those areas. The countries if they wanted too could build something on that part of water that could help people of the organisms in the water. If countries didn’t own water anything could happen. To understand the ocean’s ecosystem better you first need to know
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