GLOSSARY OF TECHNIQUES USED TO CREATE MEANING Active voice/passive voice Writing that uses the forms of verbs which create a direct relationship between the subject and the object. Active voice is lively and more direct. Eg. ‘We had fun’ is written in the active voice; ‘Fun was had’ is written in the passive voice. Alliteration The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. It is used to produce sound that adds to the atmosphere or mood of the words‚ or perhaps
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252 Management Information Systems REAL WORLD ~ CASE Amazon‚ eBay‚ and Google: Unlocking and Sharing Business Databases The meeting had dragged on for more than an hour that rainy day in Seattle‚ and Jeff Bezos had heard enough. The CEO had rounded up 15 or so senior engineers and managers in one of Amazon’s offices to tackle a question buzzing inside the company: Should Amazon bust open the doors of its most prized data warehouse‚ containing its myriad databases‚ and let an eager world
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keep its huge growth rates and forgot a little bit about its initial motto‚ which was “make money without doing evil”. Also‚ it was proved that Google helped the Chinese government to censor search results‚ which were critizing the government. It was also collecting personal data from Wi-Fi networks while it was photographing the streets for its Google Street view application and there was also an investigation about Google’s lobbying trying to make the government institute a “Net neutrality”
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Communication! (Google) When you’re talking about a good company to work for‚ Google is one of the top employers to get in business with and to work for. Everyone wants to read up on Google‚ every eye is on this one particular company. It has one of most interesting organization cultures out of all cultures. Not to mention‚ In 2007 Google was ranked in the top 100 best businesses to work for. This statement was written in the fortune magazine. Me personally I say Google communicates very well. Google has
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talent and created an environment to stimulate innovation and creativity. Among those tech giants‚ Google has distanced itself by offering spectacular and unique on-site employee benefits. Those remarkable benefits have pushed Google to the top of Fortune’s 100 “best companies to work for list” for the last 4 years. (money.cnn.com‚ 2013) Google incorporated as a private US company in 1998 (Google Milestones‚ 2012) and is a perfect example of modern employee-centric policies and benefits. In an
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The Innovators comment the innovators 1 The Google Enigma sented as a new model for business success. Reporters and scholars scour its history and its practices‚ looking to distill general lessons for other firms to copy. Google is no exception. Over the last two years‚ the workings of the company’s “idea factory‚” as Business Week describes it‚ have been dissected in cover stories in all the major business magazines‚ and business school professors have published studies documenting
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Introduction Google is known today as one of biggest internet site all around the world. The young company‚ which will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2008‚ is the leader of the search business‚ a concentrated business where it faces competition from Yahoo and Microsoft. In order to understand how Google have succeeded in its enterprise‚ we will respond to several questions about the company and the search business market. What were the key factors behind Google ’s early success?
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Title: Is Google Books a Good Thing? The Google Books project has been a working progress ever since Google was created. The co-founders of Google‚ Sergey Brin and Larry Page had been working on a research project that was supported by the Stanford digital Library Technologies Project in 1996. Google intends to scan every book ever published and make all of the text searchable so that people can find the relevant information they need about book. They want to make books more accessible to
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book he utilizes characterization to connect the reader to the fishermen and townspeople. “She’s a tall blonde who inspires crushes in the teenaged sons of some of her friends‚” describes Junger‚ “but there’s a certain no-nonsense air about her that has always kept Bobby on his toes” (7). The way Junger describes Christina‚ Bobby Shatford’s girlfriend‚ sounds as if he knew her at the time. This use of pathos makes Junger a much more effective and believable
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Ó Springer 2008 Journal of Business Ethics (2009) 86:143–157 DOI 10.1007/s10551-008-9840-y Google in China: A Manager-Friendly Heuristic Model for Resolving Cross-Cultural Ethical Conflicts ABSTRACT. Management practitioners and scholars have worked diligently to identify methods for ethical decision making in international contexts. Theoretical frameworks such as Integrative Social Contracts Theory (Donaldson and Dunfee‚ 1994‚ Academy of Management Review 19‚ 252–284) and more recently
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