Amancio Ortega Gaona is a famous fashion designer and entrepreneur. * He is a founder of ZARA‚ co-founder and chairman of Inditex Group * Thanks to his great management skills he is Spain’s richest man and 5th richest man in the world (net worth of $31 billion) * „ZARA“ is a part of a holding company called Inditex. Inditex is now the largest textile company in the world. Includes 8 brands: Zara‚ Zara Home‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Pull&Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Oysho i Uterqüe * “To copy
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Organization Studies http://oss.sagepub.com/ Social Remembering and Organizational Memory Michael Rowlinson‚ Charles Booth‚ Peter Clark‚ Agnes Delahaye and Stephen Procter Organization Studies 2010 31: 69 originally published online 12 November 2009 DOI: 10.1177/0170840609347056 The online version of this article can be found at: http://oss.sagepub.com/content/31/1/69 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: European Group for Organizational Studies Additional
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Corporate Ownership & Control / Volume 4‚ Issue 4‚ Summer 2007 96 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: SHAREHOLDERS’ INTERESTS’ AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS’ INTERESTS Elena F Pérez Carrillo* Abstract Much of the traditional Company Law doctrine considers that Corporations must be managed to promote‚ above all‚ shareholders’ rights. Activities in favour of non-shareholder constituencies such as suppliers‚ consumers‚ employees or the Community at large can be perceived as a means of Management to increase its
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Zara: Case questions 1. Coordination of a supply chain is always important. However‚ such efforts are usually initiated by certain parties. For the global apparel industry‚ would it be more suitable for downstream or upstream parties to be the driver of the coordination? Motivate your answer with the use of two important characteristics of the apparel industry. 2. Clearly Zara has a strong relationship with all parties within the supply chain. a) Which of the following retailer-supplier relationships
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Case Study # 1 – Zara / Due 10/13 – 10 pts / Professor Conrad Zara is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing apparel retailers‚ owing to a unique blend of business practices and an internal culture that many might say run “counter-intuitive” to those of competing U.S. retailers. More recently‚ however‚ industry analysts have started to suggest that the “fast fashion” business model that has made Zara so successful over the past decade has run its course and the very notion of disposable
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simple click in the World Wide Web (www) virtual environment (Laudon & Laudon‚ 2010). ZARA case study 1. Company presentation Inditex Group is one of the biggest fashion retailers in the world owning more than 100 companies operating in different sectors of activity. Its unique business model set the basis for one of the leading brands in international fashion industry called Zara. Zara is an eco-friendly retail company and encompasses more than 5‚000 stores situated in prime locations
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Rubio Malo de Molina | [Case Study – ZAra] | Marketing Management – First Assignment | Contents Case preparation 3 - Write a brief synopsis of the company background 3 Questions to answer: 4 - Explain the evolution of fashion market (product‚ environment‚ target…). 4 - Which are the most important differences between “Marketing orientation” and “Market Orientation”? What do you think is better nowadays? 4 - Why Inditex and Zara is a paradigmatic example of market orientation
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Comparison of Zara and Benetton Supply Chains REPORT Master Supply Chain and Purchasing Management (MSCP) Date 11.02.2010 Outline I. Supply Chain strategy 3 II. Supply Chain structure 5 III. Supply Chain processes 6 IV. Supply Chain management practices 7 V. Supply Chain performance 8 VI. Strengths and weaknesses 9 Bibliography 10 Appendix 11 I. Supply Chain strategy The purpose of this report is to compare the supply chains of Zara and Benetton‚ two global players of
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Study Proposal A comparative case analysis of Zara and Topshop Company I. Rationale As of the present‚ fashion industry market is growing and booming with the presence of low cost fashion companies such as Zara and Topshop. These kinds of companies have the possibility to dominate the industry of today and in the future and the situation for competition in the fashion industry can be set on high demand on such products and services. Zara is recognized as the most successful fashion retailer
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ORGANIZATION GROUP FLOW In an organization‚ communication flows in 5 main directions- 1. Downward 2. Upward 3. Lateral 4. Diagonal 5. External 6. Laissez-faire 1. Downward Flow of Communication: Communication that flows from a higher level in an organization to a lower level is a downward communication. In other words‚ communication from superiors to subordinates in a chain of command is a downward communication. This communication flow is used by the managers to
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