Halmstad University 2010 Halmstad University School of Business and Engineering Bachelor Degree EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY The example of France‚ Spain and Sweden Marketing dissertation: 15 ECTS 18th of October 2010 Authors: Adriana Corral Alonso & Daphné Lapourré Supervisor: Jean-Charles Languilaire 1 Halmstad University 2010 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We desire to express our gratitude toward all people who have contributed to our thesis. We are willing to thank
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a verb synonymous with Internet search (“Google me. I’m a pretty big deal.”). A behind the scenes look at the corporate culture driving this company will reveal how Google has managed to gain such coveted permanence in daily life‚ how it will manage to stay in its place as the top search engine‚ and how it will maintain its relevance in the technology market. One definition of culture from Merriam-Webster Online (2010) is “the set of shared attitudes‚ values‚ goals‚ and practices that characterizes
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company by open more stores and ultimately increasing sales to $1 billion. However‚ the performance of the company was impacted greatly by the inappropriate management decisions‚ which caused by incompatibleness between new coming in managers and the culture of the company. It resulted mismanagement of the real estate strategy‚ and struggling to implement new inventory systems to keep pace with the demands in market place. Consequently‚ the stores were under performance and the whole organization had
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Question 1 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is going beyond compliance to the law. It is an obligation for a business to pursue long term goals that are good for society and it is about how a company manages its business to produce an overall positive impact on society. The triple bottom line of CSR encompasses three pillars‚ namely people‚ planet and profit. It encapsulates an extended array of components that measure that organisation’s performance‚ which are social‚ environmental and financial
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Andy Chew at Siemens Nixdorf By Group 4 (LM Consulting – Aldo‚ Fanny‚ Jan and Jaya) Siemens Nixdorf Informationsysteme AG * Formed in 1990 by the merger of: Nixdorf Computer AG and Siemens Data Information Services (DIS) division * Business of SNI: Service‚ Solutions (SAP/R3)‚ Product * Products from SNI: PC‚ Mainframes‚ Support services * Largest IT company in Europe once Siemens Nixdorf Informationsysteme AG facing crisis – Losses continue * Losses ever since merger
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Mr. Karl-Heinz Lottes—Director of Business Operations‚ EMW SIEMENS CORPORATION Headquartered in Munich‚ Siemens AG‚ a producer of electrical and electronic products‚ was one of the world’s largest corporations. Revenues totaled 51 billion deutschmarks (DM) in 1987‚ with roughly half this amount representing sales outside of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Siemens organization was split into seven major groups and five corporate divisions. The largest group‚ Energy and Automation‚ accounted
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the program will also make the company’s working efficiency low. Question two: In this case we can see‚ the new structure of Kleinfeld reduces bureaucracy to ensure more rapid decision-making‚ get rid of underperformence business‚ simplified corporate structure. These measures can effectively improve the efficiency of company‚ but these measures‚ some of impersonal. In contrast‚ the restructuring of Loscher is more effective‚ more humane‚ which is why the two sides had their differences and argument
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Siemens AG Financial Analysis Capital Structure and current financial situation 12/5/2012 Andon Pavlov‚ 296181 Company Review Siemens AG is a German multinational engineering and electronics conglomerate company headquartered in Munich‚ Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company. Siemens’ principal activities are in the fields of industry‚ energy‚ transportation and healthcare. It is organized into five main divisions: Industry‚ Energy‚ Healthcare
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Md Haque BUS 685 Case 1 – The Bribery Scandal at Siemens AG Analysis: On November 15‚ 2006‚ five Siemens employees were taken into custody in connection with suspected bribery‚ tax evasion and embezzlement of company funds related investigation. Police raided 30 offices and private homes in Germany. The authorities found €420M of questionable payments made over a seven year period from 1999 to 2006. Siemens documents reflected the questionable payments were made to external consultants. The
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conclusion of their chapter on leadership and cultural variation. Dorfman‚ Hanges and Brodbeck (2004‚ p. 711) re-iterated the pervasive question asked in the cross-cultural management literature‚ “Does culture influence leadership‚ and‚ if so‚ why and how?” The answer was partly given in Dorfman and House’s (2004) review of extant work on leadership‚ namely‚ that there is still no definitive answer since the evaluative interpretations of leadership still vary across cultures. Furthermore‚ Dorfman et al
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