around the world. Aaland Islands… The Aaland Islands are nearly equally distant between Finland and Sweden. They had traditionally belonged to Finland but most of the islanders wanted to be governed by Sweden. Neither Sweden nor Finland could come to a decision as to who owned the islands and in 1921 they asked the League to give a ruling. The League’s decision was that they should remain with Finland but that no weapons should ever be kept there. Both countries accepted the decision and it remains
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extremely low population density? High? -High: Monaco. Vatican City‚ Malta‚ San Marino‚ Netherlands -Low: Iceland‚ Norway‚ Finland 3. What is zero degrees longitude called? -Prime Meridian 4. What does SMP mean? Where would you find it? - Statutory Maternity Leave; England 5. What are the Nordic Countries? -Denmark -Sweden -Finland -Norway -Iceland 6. What are some crops grown in places like Spain and Italy? -Olives‚ Olive oil‚ Avocado‚ sunflowers‚ citrus
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students of business and managers in work organisations’? Abstract: The aim of this essay explains my knowledge and understanding about the term ’national culture’ and introduces the differences mentioned by the theorists such as‚ Hofstede‚ Trompenaars in the study as well as analyses a content that both business students and organisational managers in work should consider culture as a main notion which was argued by French‚ R. (2010). Illustrating from the book‚ websites and my own experience
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production and was producing shelving systems. A few years later they moved the headquarters to Markaryd in Sweden. During the years they have expand their company and established in Norway‚ Denmark and Finland. Sweden is now accounting for half of the selling‚ and then it is Norway‚ Denmark and last is Finland. Gerdmans Inredningar has offices in all those countries‚ one office in each country. The have also quit with their in-house production‚ and are now focusing to be a pure trading company. They have
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A principle of free and equal access for all Danish citizens is the objective of the Danish health care system. Because of that the majority of health services are free to users in Denmark. The health care services are divided into two sectors which are primary health care and the hospital sector. The primary health care services are available to all and it deals with general health problems. The hospital sector focuses on medical conditions with more specialized treatment‚ equipment and intensive
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enormous significance to understand cultural differences and make good use of them in the global context. National culture may be thought of as the values‚ beliefs‚ perceptual orientations‚ and norms typical of the members of a particular society (Trompenaars‚ 1997). Management techniques inconsistent with national culture can lead to conflict between multinational corporations (MNCs) and its employees and‚ perhaps the broader society. Comparative studies of national culture across a large number of
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significance of stakeholder 1. Vision 2. Mission 3. Objectives 4. Stakeholders a. Internal (Employees) b. Connected (Customers and suppliers) c. External (Government) III. External environment and organizational audit 1. PESTEL (located in Finland) 2. Five force 3. Organizational audit IV. SWOT analysis of company and strategic positioning techniques to the analysis of Nokia 1. Value chain 2. SWOT · Strength · Weakness · Opportunities · Threat 3. Strategic positioning 4. Market penetration
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thousand tons‚ Finland based UPM-Kymmene Oyj with 10‚700 thousand tons‚ China-based Nine Dragons Paper Ltd. with 10‚450 and Finland-based Stora Enso Oyj with 10‚268 thousand tons. The data is ranked by the amount of output and retrieved from Gale Business Insights: Essentials 2015. We can know that the using amount of paper is increasing in Asia-Pacific region. The reason is that their economic scale is growing rapidly these years‚ so the demand of paper is increasing. As for Finland‚ the country’s
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Statement of Purpose I grew up in a village which had no electricity‚ no telephone and not even a high school. I should consider myself lucky in a way that I have understood a little about this wonderful world of science and technology and I have been able to use a few of them. My mates back at my village have not even seen computers. I could be proud of my achievements thus far; I could be blown away and sit back. But I know this is not enough in fact this is nothing and I have a lot to gain. As
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Siberia. Geographic Location: This indigenous group calls Norway‚ Sweden‚ Finland‚ and parts of northwestern Russia home. While the Sami are credited with being the longest living group of people on the Scandinavia peninsula‚ the majority of today’s population resides in
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