Essays Tagged: "multinational companies"

Managing human resources in a cross cultural context: A case study of South Africa

n the trend for 'western' approaches to management to be imported into developing countries through multinational companies. This may not only affect organizations in the private sector, but also thos ...

(18 pages) 602 0 4.4 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Short essay on the Gobalization of Markets.

ore and more like everything else as the world's preference structure is relentlessly homogenized." Multinational companies have been engaged in an effort to push standardized products and marketing p ... will tend to vary from national products in their quest to satisfy their wants, needs and curiosity.Multinational companies must try to keep in touch with the needs of the people in its target segment ...

(2 pages) 139 0 4.3 Aug/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

To what extent will globalization help the poor? Globalization and its Effects on Poverty

udes the increasing integration of countries' individual economies, the rise in the world trade and multinational companies and the effect of large sums of money moving in and out of economies. People ...

(6 pages) 516 0 3.9 Nov/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Global Organisation & Rationalisation

N (1996), Kapitalismus. However, due to the globalisation process capitalism is rather organised by multinational companies nowadays. Governments which also introduced steps to accelerate the globalis ... rs such as foreign trade balance or unemployment rate. For this reason governments are depending on multinational companies and tend to fulfil companies' demands to keep them in the country. Among gov ...

(5 pages) 100 0 3.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Critical review of Jagersma and van Gorp(2003)"Still searching for the pot of gold: doing business in today's China" in Harvard Business Review.

balization are two of the most important influences currently affecting the global economy. Western multinational companies aimed at organization framework and operation strategy to do new essential r ... cturing and development refer to relevant areas. We can concentrate on the following four points:i. Multinational combination increasingly becomes a leading manner for direct foreign investment of mul ...

(6 pages) 128 0 3.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Blade Runner (Scott) + Brave New World (Huxley) - Analysis When humanity loses touch with nature speech to environmental forum.

ovement, that the planet and its inhabitants were under threat from pollution, the growing power of multinational companies and experiments in genetic engineering.Both artists used the science fiction ...

(4 pages) 58 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Recent debate about multiculturalism in Australia

implications on international trade and tourism. Migration and the transnational business model of Multinational companies (MNCs), made possible by information technology, and has brought about an in ...

(6 pages) 107 2 4.6 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Unemployment in Ireland

rms to close and unemployment began to rise. Unemployment rates rose rapidly during the 1980's when multinational companies pulled out and new multinational companies failed to invest.(2) SEASONAL UNE ...

(2 pages) 36 0 4.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Effects of Globalization on the Environment

t has increased the integration of countries' individual economies, the rise in the world trade and multinational companies, and the effect of large amounts of money moving in and out of economies thr ...

(2 pages) 112 4 3.5 Mar/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

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n the transfer price? 4. Why might income-tax laws affect the transfer-pricing policies of multinational companies? B. Learning Objectives - This chapter has five learning objectives ... prices, costs, or negotiations. 4. It discusses the implications of transfer pricing in a multinational company. 5. It discusses the effects of transfer pricing on segment reporting ...

(13 pages) 96 0 3.8 May/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Describe some of the positive and negative roles played by Multinational Corporations (MNC's) in the contemporary world economy?

IntroductionWhat is a Multinational Corporation (MNC's)?Multinational companies are firms with their home base in one coun ... MNC's are one which are global operating across borders with no single national emphasis. The first multinational, appearing in 1602, was the Dutch East India Company.A key concern with regards to MNC ... bsidiaries in countries where conditions are most favorable to their business operations.Very large multinationals have budgets that exceed those of many countries. Countries often offer incentive to ...

(6 pages) 238 0 4.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

MNCs' Strategic Decisions & Internal Activities.

INTRODUCTIONThe aim of this essay is to look at the key factors that can influence multinational companies' (MNCs) strategic decisions about the design and location of their internal ... ning the production activities is what roles and inter-linkages should be assign to the plants of a multinational company. Such decision involves determining, for each plant, the plant structure, prod ... 192% during the same period.MATERIALS MANAGEMENT.Materials management is defined as 'management by multinational companies of the flow of components and finished products in serving foreign markets' ...

(13 pages) 281 0 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The Effect of Globalization on the Labor Market

udes the increasing integration of countries' individual economies, the rise in the world trade and multinational companies and the effect of large sums of money moving in and out of economies. People ...

(8 pages) 266 0 4.3 Feb/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

Corning Vitro Joint case study

usiness. Failing doing so may lead any company to the failure of the business. NAFTA is encouraging multinational companies of US for joint venture with Mexican companies. As per the case study Cornin ...

(11 pages) 131 1 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Case Study: Globalisation and the Pfizer Corporation

debated topics over the last decade or so due to its perceived often immoral practices performed by multinational companies. Some say globalisation is the best thing that has happened for world econom ... One of the largest factors and possibly the key to the phenomena of globalisation is the concept of multinational corporations. Over the past 20 odd years or there about, large corporations in one cou ...

(5 pages) 124 0 4.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Advantages and Disadvantages of Globalisation

last century, interrupted by the two world wars and the great depression. Here the main factor were multinational companies operating with little regard for borders.We are living in the third phase of ...

(3 pages) 180 0 5.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Managerial Practice In The New Economy - The Malaysian Context

zations to create new international cultures and value systems for their global outreach employees. Multinational companies operating in Malaysia for instance, have realized that apart from developing ... long as it is good for business.With the growth of global trade and investment and the emergence of multinational corporations, the same utilitarian logic of business will unfold, resulting in economi ...

(8 pages) 107 0 1.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

Globalisation in the current and Past Human era and the way it affects the Human community

econd World War also bough another great expansion of world wide capitalism with the development of multinational companies, air travel and international communication systems such as the internet, al ...

(4 pages) 25 0 3.0 Apr/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Global Marketing

EXECUTIVE SUMMARYIn the world that is more global than ever was, any multinational companies (MNC) who wishes to survive and thrive in the increasing level of competitio ...

(20 pages) 223 0 3.8 Aug/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

The Medicaid Health Care Program of the US needs certain amendments to meet the growing health needs of the American citizens.

head for their people. Currently, the US pins their hopes in the potential entry of businessmen and multinational companies that give funding for various endeavors of Medicaid, giving the American peo ...

(10 pages) 98 0 3.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights