1. What do you see as advantages and disadvantages of entering the outsourcing agreement outlined by Gupta? Advantages: 1) Pay for use and avoid excess capacity wastage. Company do not have to keep investing in maintaining excess capacity of 30-40%. 2) Lower Human Resources cost due to their transfer to vendor companies. It can use its resources and expertise to its core areas of product innovation‚ marketing‚ branding‚ pricing and value added services. 3) High bargaining power
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The textile industry in the US took off with Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin in 1793 (http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu). This caused the expansion of the cotton economy (normally slave-based) that could provide raw materials to make the cloth‚ mechanical spinning frames and the development of techniques to catch water power‚ it also gave way to the growth of spinning mills (http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu). Over time and successful competition with British textiles the “Waltham-Lowell system” with
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Schindler India (A) – A Case Analysis ____________________________________________________________ __________________ CASE ANALYSIS – SCHINDLER INDIA Schindler Holding Ltd‚ a respected Swiss elevator company‚ was established in 1874 by Robert Schindler and the first Schindler elevator was installed in India in 1925. After technical and sales collaborations with Indian companies‚ ECE and Bharat Bijlee Ltd.(BBL) in 1958 and 1985‚ Schindler Ltd decided to setup a wholly owned company in India in
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Memo case study 1 To: Robert Smith (Executive Director-Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States) From: (Student at UMUC) Subject: Safety and quality concerns of Coke products in India. Date: June 07‚ 2013 Coca-Cola has considerably gained a large share of the market in the soft drinks industry. In the chase of expanding to foreign companies‚ it decided to explore India which presented great potential for revenues due to the growing population. The company built bottling
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1. What are some of the contextual issues for McDonald’s in India (Describe the Indian context using Hofstede/Trompenaars/GLOBE). What are some of the more prominent social instritutions at work that will impact on this case (Religion‚ Government‚ Social institutions‚ Education‚ Politics‚ etc.) Trompenaars: Particularism: After many years of studying the Indian food market‚ build relationships and get to know people to better understand Indian’s needs. McDonald’s was ready to get into India’s market
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CASE B-6: AMWAY INDIA Assignment Presented to Dr. G. N. Braithwaite-Sturgeon as per the requirements of International Marketing ADM4328 M University of Ottawa January 22nd 2013 BUSINESS CONTEXT & INITIAL SITUATION Amway‚ a North American Multinational‚ subsidiary of Alticor Inc. has over the years become one of the leaders in the 90 billion dollar direct selling industry through its use of multi-level marketing and
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Case Study – Coke in India Adapted by Lesley Fleischman from: Hills‚ Jonathan and Welford‚ Richard. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 12‚ 168–177 (2005) August 2003 • • • • • October 2003 • • Coke has 44 wholly owned and franchise owned bottling plants in India Indian NGO finds that Coke and Pepsi products bottled in India contain pesticides. Immediate impact on Coke stock price. Coke threatened legal action over allegations. Indian government
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In 1794‚ Eli Whitney invented a simple machine called the cotton gin. The main purpose of this machine was to automatically separate the cotton fibers from the seeds. Similar machines already existed for long-staple cotton‚ but they did not work with short-staple cotton. The basic concept was the same‚ using brushes to separate the two parts of the cotton. Whitney’s design‚ however‚ used spiked teeth to pull the fibers from the seed more effectively than previous machines. Whitney’s cotton gin only
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Number of Dacoity Cases Reported and Value of Property Taken Away by Place of Occurrence (City-wise) Report published by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Submitted by: Mitesh Karwa [Section- D; Roll No: 1311238] By studying the 2011 and 2012 data from ‘Crime in India’ published by the NCRB‚ which has been the principal reference for crime statistics in India for almost 70 years [1] [2]‚ an effort has been made to analyse the number of dacoity cases in 53 major cities of India and the value of
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Kilometers area and by 2002 India reached 1.1 billion people with a growing rate of 1.5%‚ diversity in languages‚ multi party democracy system‚ different religious groups‚ India is facing rapidly growth economy but significant reforms need to be passed still. The financial situation in India by 1992 wasn’t the most attractive but had been growing 6% annually by 2002‚ turning India into one of the principal growing economies in the world. By adopting the Washington Consensus‚ India had remove almost all
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