Assignment for the article of "How Industries Change?" by Anita McGahan Harvard Business Review‚ Oct 2004 1. Why need to understand change in the industry? Understanding change in the industry is very important. Unless one understands how the whole industry is faring and changing‚ making investments within one’s organization for the purpose of maximizing the firm’s successes and profitability could backfire. Companies may misinterpret signs and formulate irrelevant assumptions and actions
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I will admit that I am rather new to the discussion on bigotry‚ privilege‚ and the various -isms. I was speaking with a female friend of mine a few months ago‚ and I remarked that women‚ on average‚ are less able to compartmentalize their emotions than men. She was (justifiably) irate‚ and I qualified myself. You see‚ I had never been explicitly exposed to the socially-propagated idea that women are emotionally unstable. When I found out‚ I felt rather embarrassed in not only being sexist‚ but
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Which of the following is classified as an entrepreneur? A manager in a large corporation A financial manager in a small firm An owner-manager who bought out the founder of a firm A salaried technician in a rapidly-growing high-tech firm Compared to large corporations‚ small businesses play just as important a part in the economy. attract more attention and make more headlines in the media. are not as important to the well-being of society. are highly visible
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Enhancing Asset Protection through an adequate monitoring of internal control system by internal audit. By Danique Channer (ID # 0908607 SOBA) November 12‚ 2012 Lecturer: Ms. Simone Bewry Summary of Article Since the start of the global economic recession there has been a reduction in the ablity of organization’s to acquire assets for business operations therefore increasing the need for asset protection against fraud. Studies have shown
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What are the advantages and limitations of cohesive groups? “Groups differ in their cohesiveness —the degree to which members are attracted to each other and motivated to stay in the group”. (Robbins & Judge‚ 2013‚ p288) Is it right if the more cohesive groups are‚ the more effective groups are? This is up to groups’ performance‚ objectives and abilities of each member. “Cohesiveness affects group productivity. Studies consistently show that the relationship between cohesiveness and productivity
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Gun control advocates do have a moral obligation to reveal their true intentions regarding the ultimate consequences and potentially obscure implications of the policies that they espouse. By attempting to prohibit firearms incrementally‚ yet failing to inform the public of their true intentions‚ these organizations deceive and manipulate individuals who only support moderate gun controls into unknowingly advancing a cause (prohibition of guns) that they may not necessarily stand for (Kleck‚ 2001)
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The novel Disgrace is located in a time and place of great change. What aspects of postcolonial thinking does Coetzee employ in his exploration of/or comment on post-apartheid South Africa? Post colonialism is a political discourse that dominates the reading of ‘Disgrace’ by South African author‚ JM Coetzee. Coetzee comments on the repercussions of the shifting values and ideals following the imperialist attitudes of the European colonizers on the issue of apartheid. Disgrace gives voice to the
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Land and Law in Colonial India Anand V. Swamy Williams College December 2010 Forthcoming in Debin Ma and Jan Luiten Van Zanden eds. Long-term Economic Change in Eurasian Perspective‚ Stanford University Press. 1 1. Introduction The East India Company’s conquest of various territories in India typically brought one issue to the forefront right away: How would land taxes‚ the principal source of governmental revenue‚ be collected? But taxation was not a thing unto itself; it was
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Slavery in America started began when the first ship of slaves landed in Jamestown‚ Virginia‚ in 1619. Slavery was brought to America to aid the production of lucrative crops like tobacco‚ indigo‚ sugarcane‚ corn‚ and the list goes on. Slavery went on throughout the 17th and 18th century in the American colonies‚ leading the way to build an economic foundation for the new nation. By the mid-19th century‚ Americans started to expand out west‚ and fought for the abolitionment of slavery from the North
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Fall of the Colonial Empire 1800-2000 According to the Traditions and Encounters‚ the process of decolonization refers to “a form of regime shift‚ a changed relationship between the colonizing power and colony.” Such decolonization occurred with the end of European empires in African and Asian countries after the pressures of the First and Second World War and the rise of nationalism. The period between the years 1900 to 1959 reflect a shift of power between the European colonial powers and the
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