Assignment 1: Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies Student: College Guy Professor: Dr. Neil Mathur Course: BUS 508 – Contemporary Business University: Strayer University Date: January 26‚ 2014 Assignment 1: Corporate Responsibility and Marketing Strategies Question 1: I believe Apple Inc. [mostly referred as “Apple” in this document] has met the ethical and social responsibility towards general public‚ employees‚ customers and shareholders/investors
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Case study report SHARP Corporation AF2110 Management Accounting 1 Group 6 Lo Sui Hang Simon 12119861D Liang Zun John 12131439D Liu Zhuoling Cici 12133189D Lo Yu Chau Autumn 12119435D Loegler Nicolas Nick 13011229X Management Accounting 1 Group 6 Introduction Sharp Corporation is a Japanese electronics giant that manufactures electronic products. The Company was founded in Tokyo in the year 1912 by Tokuji Hayakawa. Behind Samsung‚ LG‚ Sony and Panasonic‚ Sharp Corporation is the world’s
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Apple SWOT analysis 2013 Strengths Weaknesses 1. Customer loyalty 1. High price combined with 2. Incompatibility with expanding closed different OS ecosystem 3. Decreasing market 2. Apple is a leading share innovator in mobile 4. Patent infringements device technology 5. Further changes in 3. Strong financial management performance 6. Defects of new ($10‚000‚000‚000 products cash‚ gross profit 7. Long-term gross
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of Manufacturing Sites in Other Countries The American (2010) Schumpeter 2.0. Available from: http://www.american.com/archive/2010/june-2010/schumpeter-2.0 [accessed 20/01/2014] The Telegraph (2012) ’Mass suicide ’ protest at Apple manufacturer Foxconn factory
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"The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labour‚ and the greatest part of the skill‚ dexterity‚ and judgement with which it is anywhere directed‚ or applied‚ seem to have been the effects of the division of labour."- Adam Smith Smith is saying that the greatest improvement we have in productivity is labour‚ labour is the key of the great things we have now. I agree with the author because the workers are the people who help with the economic growth‚ and the people who make the product
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Ethics and sweatshops Companies want to maximize profits‚ while employees want to maximize salaries and benefits. Unfortunately these two desires do not always go hand in hand. The best way for a company to treat its employee how they wish to be treated. Make decisions that are in the best interest of all stakeholders. The Golden Rule still holds true. Companies have a responsibility to its employees and employees have a responsibility to its employer. When leadership treats its workers unfairly
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is unfair to the workers in the fact that they have to work under great pressure with a low wage and insufficient rest. Therefore‚ since 2005‚ the underpaid workers started pressing the pressure to the company by acquiring a raised wage. However‚ Foxconn‚ one of the Apple’s major manufacturers is considering moving inland. It is because this can help to maintain a lower wage and cheaper source of raw materials for the production of iPhone. Many analysts are optimistic in finding new innovations
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CHINESE CONSUMER McEwen‚ W‚ Xiaoguang‚ F‚ Chuanping‚ Z & Burkholder‚ R 2006‚ ’Inside the mind of the Chinese consumer’‚ Harvard Business Review‚ vol. 84‚ no. 3‚ pp. 68-76. INTRODUCTION Today China becomes one of the biggest economies all around the world. After the economy boom‚ there is many affluent people appear. A study conducted in China‚ revealed that this country consumes a quarter of world luxury consumer products. Therefore‚ it can be obviously said that China converts one of the
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assisted by the trend of globalization and becoming a legend for years. There is a list of advantages of choosing China as a place to manufacture. The core reason will be its low labor costs comparatively. It is known that workers working in FOXCONN are earning $14 a day‚ which is lower than those in the states. It’s also easy to hire engineers in China. It usually just takes 15
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the company closed its Austin‚ Texas-based desktop PC manufacturing facility in 2008. It also shuttered customer care centers in Canada. In 2009 Dell sold its plant in Poland to Foxconn Technology‚ a unit of Hon Hai‚ the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer‚ and contracted for manufacturing services with Foxconn. Generating more than half of its sales from desktop and notebook PCs‚ Dell faces intense competition in the consolidating market it shares with Acer‚ Hewlett-Packard‚ and Lenovo
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