Tutorial 6 – Chapter 5 Cross-cultural Negotiation & Decision-making Tutorial activity 1: Ongoing Semester Case Study – Businessville Hotel. All over China and in Beijing in particular‚ plans were put in place to host the world’s biggest sporting event – the 2008 Olympic Games. Although the games are now over‚ other major sporting events are to be held in Beijing and the manager of the Beijing Businessville Hotel wants to attract the Swiss National Shooting team to stay in his hotel. He wants
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QUESTION : Business and Ethical practices/Issues in International Business and the role of Multinational enterprises (MNEs) Introduction to Business and Ethics The ethical-related issues have represented the foundation of different religions and life styles. Ethics can be found in all aspects of human activity as the individuals have been preoccupied with the quality of their behavior towards the people around. Even if they do not purposefully intend to improve their relations with the others
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Brian Gikunda Diamond ENC1101 09/17/2014 Assignment 1: Article Summary In this article‚ James Aston and John Wallis talk about the apocalyptic movies that are released before and after the attacks on the United States on September 11‚ 2001. They look at the fears and Issues following the 9/11 attack such as: the war on terror‚ American imperialism and other issues that involve the environment. This articles looks at movies with the same patterns and show the same disaster and apocalyptic genre
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Article Summary With the increase in online courses‚ along came an increase in the drop out rates versus the traditional sit-in environment. During this study‚ valuable information was offered to increase student success and minimize drop out rates. There needs to be communication among peers and instructor to have success in online courses. A group of students from the University of Pretoria‚ were enrolled in a Masters program‚ and their online activities were tracked for 8 weeks‚ by a program
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* a. Choose the income statement of particular year. * b. Split up costs in fixed and variable the best you can. * c. Look for an average price per motor bike to determine how many bikes Envy Rides has sold. * d. Calculate the variable cost per cycle sold‚ and assume it is constant. * e. Draw graph with MC-curve (at the level of the variable cost per cycle)‚ and the average total costs curve. * f. Be sure to have number of cycles sold on the horizontal axis. Income
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1.) What are the challenges regarding corporate social responsibility that companies in the apparel industry face in the supply chains around the world? Some of the challenges that companies of supply chains faced are horrible. They are the following. According to the case study‚ there have been cases reported abusive treatments in more than a quarter of its South Asian plants. Another report is that 25%-50% of factories in the region restrict access to toilets and drinking water during the
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office‚ that accured the Japanese government and Fuji of “Unfair trading practices”. According to the petition‚ the Japanese government helped to create a ‘ profile sanctuary’ for Fuji in Japan by systematically denying Kodak access to Japanese distribution channels for consumer film and paper. Kodak claims Fuji has effectively shut Kodak products out of four distributors that have a 70% share of the photo distribution market. Fuji has an equity position in two of the distributors‚ gives large
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Janet Sanchez Professor Cichelli Sociology 100 March 8‚ 2015 Article Summary In the article "Understanding American Worldview‚" the author J. LaVelle Ingram explains the cross cultural differences between Americans and immigrants. It also informs immigrants the atypical worldview of the American country they are adopting. Hence‚ these set of worldviews are categorized in five dimensions. In America‚ the first identified dimensions of worldview is that time focuses on the future instead of the past
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Case study CASE STUDY: LAKSHMI MITTAL AND THE GROWTH OF MITTAL STEEL QUESTION 3: What benefits does Mittal Steel bring to the countries that it enters? Are there any drawbacks to a nation when Mittal Steel invests there? ANSWER 3: Mittal Steel brings several benefits to the countries that it enters. It’s presence in the market is beneficial as it focuses on acquiring and improving distressed companies. These acquisitions also help contribute more capital to each country. However‚ they are
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IBM (PYQ April 2011) PART A QUESTION 1 a) Identify India’s economic system during 1947 to 1990. India’s economic system during 1947 is a democratic system of government. The economic system that developed in India after 1947 was a mixed economy characterized by a large number of state owned enterprises‚ centralized planning‚ and subsidies. b) Based on the case study‚ describe the following: i) India’s current economic system. Economic system is the framework adopted by each country to
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