Studies in Organizational Culture- Groupon Inc. “Groupon! Get your Groupon! Hot off the presses!” It wasn’t too long ago Groupon Inc. was the darling of Wall Street. Institutional and individual investors alike were anxiously anticipating an opportunity to buy shares of the company dubbed by Fast Company as “the most exciting thing to happen to retail since eBay.” That excitement was mirrored on November 4‚ 2011‚ Groupon’s first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange‚ as the price sky-rocketed
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particularly in Vietnam‚ were underpaying and mistreating workers. The outcry turned into a public relations disaster for NIKE‚ one from which it still has not fully recovered. Human rights groups‚ not reporters‚ were the first to uncover the abuse in Vietnam. Yet reporters and NIKE itself should have seen trouble coming. The case is a textbook example of how one country’s history and culture helped create a hostile environment for a company like NIKE. When NIKE arrived in Vietnam in 1995‚ the country
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large-scale ‘managerial enterprise’ as put forward by the famous business historian Alfred Chandler has not been followed completely by all of the world’s leading economies. This essay will therefore be structured as follows: first I will briefly explain Chandler’s theory of the large-scale managerial enterprise‚ putting it into context of time and place and pointing out the major flaws of his theory. Then‚ I will attempt to justify my opinion by using the Japanese enterprise system‚ paying attention
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helped Steve Jobs‚ a famous entrepreneur to start his own technology company‚ Apple Inc. and to make it become an influencial‚ popular company that still prospers these days. B. A free enterprise system provides individuals the opportunity to make their own economic decisions without restriction from the government. It allows the supply and demand of consumers to determine the success or failure of an economic endeavor. Free enterprise gives the opportunity to anyone‚ regardless of whealth‚ status‚
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The Vietnam Conflict: A Nation’s Intervention Directly after the Second World War‚ nations everywhere were suffering from post-war dilemmas; governments were in turmoil. To many countries‚ the antagonist of democracy‚ communism‚ seemed like a valuable answer to end their state of turmoil. Vietnam‚ being one of the countries that sought for an answer‚ was split in half upon making a decision. America was in fear that a North Vietnam communist takeover of South Vietnam would ignite
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Version 8 “Enterprise Resource Planning: An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise.” (PC Magazine) • • • • Financial HR Order Management Manufacturing (Gartner‚ 2011) Department of Informatics 4 University of Pretoria WHY ERP? Version 8 Benefits • Real time information throughout all entire company • Better visibility into the performance of operational areas • Data standardisation and accuracy across the enterprise. • Single
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Multi-national enterprises’ global operations? Introduction It is undeniable that competition in the business area is very fierce. People in the business world must find the best way in order to survive. Business‚ nowadays‚ expand their business to other countries as globalization on the rise. They need to remain competitive in a global marketplace with well coordinated and tightly controlled worldwide operations. For multinational enterprises (“MNEs”)‚ the corporate culture is one of the core
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SUMMARY Capital One is only a 24 year old company‚ but yet it is one of the most dominant companies in the credit card industry‚ better yet the world. Every day credit cards are used around the world‚ which gave Capital One a very attractive industry to enter. The reason they were able to grow so fast was because they advancing technologies within the past few decades. Taking advantage of today’s technologies and growing at a rapid rate is what really impresses me about Capital One. I selected Capital
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Sykes Enterprises I. Case Background Given the current state of the economy and the competitive nature of the industry‚ Sykes Enterprises closes its call centers in rural America‚ with the recent on in Milton-Freewater‚ Oregon‚ and moves its operations to the lower wages country like the Philippines. This left the call centers in America‚ which helped them to establish its operations by providing huge amount of incentives‚ to ask for some form of compensation to help them in this huge loss
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what extent are the principles of managing people universal and to what extent culture specific? * Inter-cultural or International? * Do we have a strategy for becoming an international firm? * What type of managers will we need to be successful? * How can I find out about the way that HRM is conducted in other countries (laws‚ trade unions‚ labor market). * What will be the impact of cultural norms on our HR policies. * How will we choose whether to send expatriates or use
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