Part A Executive Summary (one Page) Part B+ Part C + Part D= Max 8 pages Part B (imp) Q. Cisco is committing to produce Viking at a single source Foxconn. Moreover‚ the Viking production mostly takes place within two-hour driving distance of the Hong Kong fulfillment center. “Cisco ran the risk of being overly dependent on a single supplier and whatever financial and operational constraints it had”. What are the potential risk factors in and around Hong Kong? Some risk factors are natural disasters
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underage workers and long shift timing without proper breaks. In the past as well‚ there were some horror stories about Foxconn‚ one of the world’s biggest electronic components manufacturers‚ whose major clients include Acer‚ Apple‚ and Amazon‚ and how they mistreated their workers. But the region is brimming with countless numbers of factories operated by lesser known firms that Foxconn may not be the worst perpetrator. Human rights group China Labor Watch is trying to raise the issue of unethical labor
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Acer Incorporated Company profile Acer Incorporated – company profile 2 SOMO Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations Policies and business overview - General characteristics Acer has constantly pursued the goal of breaking the barriers between people and technology. Focused on marketing its brand-name IT products around the globe‚ Acer ranks as the world’s No. 3 vendor for total PCs and No. 2 for notebooks‚ with the fastest
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Introduction Modernists perceive organisations as tangibly factual bodies operating in the reality. When the organisation has been well designed and managed‚ the systems of actions and decisions made will be driven by the norms of rationality‚ efficiency and effectiveness to realize the organisation goals such as mission and vision. (Hatch‚ 1997) Critical Theorists view organisation as places where inequalities in power relations will dominate‚ resulting in the exploitation and estrangement of proletariat
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gap. Retrieved from Fortune: http://fortune.com/2012/11/28/perception-vs-reality-apples-sustainability-gap/ Goodman‚ D. (2012‚ December 28). NYTimes: Foxconn CEO Is Now Actively Involved In Improving Working Conditions At Apple ’s Biggest Supplier. Retrieved from Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/8-main-facts-from-nyt-report-on-foxconn-2012-12 Krosinsky‚ C. (2013‚ June 13). s Apple the Model of a Sustainable Company? Retrieved from BloombergBusiness: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/a
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APPLE IN CHINA GAIN THE POWER BACK Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 A. ANALYSIS 4 I. Strategic Issue 4 II. Analyze the Apple situation 4 1. Student slave Labor: Chinese students forced to ’intern ’ at iPhone factory. 4 2. Warranty Scandal: Worse Warranty policy to China compare to other countries 5 3. Underdeveloped infrastructure: only 8 retail stores 5 4. Competition facts 6 5. Other facts: The relationship between China and USA 7 6. Conclusion about Apple strategic
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Cartoon Rhetorical Analysis On Setember 25‚ 2012‚ two cartoons by Randy Bish and Jimmy Marguiles were realeased because of the iPhone Madness. In Randy Bish’s cartoon about iPhone Madness shows that the new iPhone 5 has everything you need in your fingertips. Since it came out‚ the iPhone was been brought by million worldwide people because of its high technology. Apple‚ the producer of the iPhones‚ has said it has sold more than five million iPhone 5 over the first couple days it came out.
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A mobile operating system‚ also referred to as mobile OS‚ is the operating system that operates a smartphone‚ tablet‚ PDA‚ or other digital mobile devices. Modern mobile operating systems combine the features of a personal computer operating system with touchscreen‚ cellular‚ Bluetooth‚ WiFi‚ GPS mobile navigation‚ camera‚ video camera‚speech recognition‚ voice recorder‚ music player‚ Near field communication‚ personal digital assistant (PDA)‚ and other features. History Main article: Smartphone
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manufacturing process. To complicate matters‚ Apple’s largest contract manufacturer Foxconn Technology closed a factory in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan after a riot broke out among 2‚000 employees. Foxconn did not confirm which plants supply Apple‚ but an employee told Reuters the Taiyuan plant is among those that assemble and make parts for Apple’s iPhone 5.Apple referred questions on the factory to Foxconn. The California company also assembles its devices at factories run by Pegatron Corp
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Introduction to Management. Palgrave Macmillan‚ South Melbourne. - Moore‚ M. (2010‚ May 27). Inside Foxconn’s suicide factory. The Telegraph. Retrieved on the 23rd March‚ 2012 from:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/7773011/A-look-inside- the-Foxconn- suicide-factory.html - Richard K. Fleischman‚ 2000‚ “completing the triangle: Taylorism and the paradigms”‚ Accounting‚ Auditing & Accountability Journal‚ Vol. 13 Iss: 5 pp. 597-624 - Steven Kreis‚ 1995‚ “Early experiments in British scientific
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