CASE 2: The Not –So-Wonderful World of Euro Disney 1. What factors contributed to Euro Disney’s poor performance during its first year of operation? What factors contributed to Hong Kong Disney’s poor performance during its first year? Answer: The major factors led Euro Disney’s poor performance was the lack of cultural consciousness and market survey. Euro Disney was built according to other American Disney parks without thinking about the culture difference. They used all American characters
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Euro Disney: The First 100 Days Case Report Submitted by: Pavni Question 1: Assess the pros and cons of Disney’s decision to build a theme park in Europe. Do you think it was a wise decision to invest in constructing a new park near Paris? Answer 1: There are several pros and cons in Disney’s decision to build a theme park in Europe. Pros 1. According to me‚ the biggest advantage of opening a theme park in Europe is the number of tourists visiting Europe each year‚ Paris being an extremely attractive
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Negotiation & Management Trimester 2‚ 2011 Assignment 1: Case Study Analysis - Euro Disneyland ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Source: Luthans‚ D. (2008) International Management: Culture‚ Strategy‚ and Behavior‚ 7th Ed‚ New York: McGraw Hill.pp229-238 The chosen case describes Euro Disneyland’s difficulties in France. The topics relevant to this case include cross-cultural values and dimensions and their practical
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Case Analysis MKTG 650-6T1 Global Marketing Management Professor: Prof. Nicholas Name: Tim Date: 2/25/13 Case study: The Not-So-Wonderful World of EuroDisney Summary Euro Disney SCA formally launched its theme park to Europeans in April 1992 near river Marne‚ 20 miles East of Paris. It was the biggest and most lavish theme park that Walt Disney had built bigger than any of its Disney parks around the world. The location was chosen over 200 potential sites in Europe from Portugal through Spain‚
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increasing prices in particular construction materials and fuel. It will provide recommendations and description on how Euro Disney will look at the end of 2014. Current economic circumstances will be addressed. Strategic analysis PESTEL Analysis Political and Legal Economic Social. The age of the population is increasing. (Office for national statistics). This is bad news for Euro Disney as it will mean a smaller target market. Technological New technology is very important to theme parks as it enables
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massive success that the Walt Disney Company has achieved in Tokyo‚ the company suffered a big failure in the next overseas expansion venture which was named Euro Disneyland. The failure’s main reason was the lack of the emotional intelligence that should be present in effective leaders. In particular‚ the emotional intelligence components are: self-awareness‚ self-regulation‚ motivation‚ empathy‚ and social skill. The most important element that was missing in this case is empathy which represents
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is main problem? The most important problem? How do you think culture impact the problem? What factors other than culture that cause the problem? For this case‚ what would you do moving forward in the future?(solution) should be flexible and the most created part. Solutions should match the problem. 1.The main problem is that the Disney Paris was struggling to be profitable under Europe’s multi-culture background which is underlined by the specific French culture. Tokyo Disneyland was the
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Disney- undoubtedly a strong and dominant fantasy and magical brand from the West had successfully expanded this brand to Japan. However‚ we can trace back that it has had failure record in the opening of the Paris Disneyland. It is now ambitious to build one in Shanghai. Before that‚ it used Hong Kong as a platform or so-called stepping stone to try getting some ideas of how to negotiate and strike a balance between Disney culture and Chinese traditional culture. So what is it mean by Disney culture
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The Not-So-Wonderful-World of Euro-Disney Q# 1‚3-4‚6. 1- What contributed to the poor performance and the losses of Euro Disney at its first year are: The European families thought that Euro Disney is over-rated and it is like they were promoting American style and culture. Advertising was not well communicated and European people did not get what Disney was trying to convey. They thought that they were emphasizing the size of the park and not the rides. Mickey’s character and his friends
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governance failure: Disneyland Pairs Xiao Zhu 104018813 Shuo Yang 104014910 Weiqiang He 104013223 Chengyu Yang 103944753 University of Windsor Content Introduction………………………………………………………… 3 The reason Euro-Disney encounter in crisis………………………… 4 Factors contribute to the crisis …………………… ……………… 6 1. Management styl…………………………………………… 6 2. Cultural difference ………………………………………… 6 3. Environment and local factor……………………………… 8 4. Financial structure and
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