Essays Tagged: "Texaco"

Why and under what conditions are people more likely to buy brand names rather than their generic counterparts?

IntroductionYou think you are having Kellogg's for breakfast, catching the news on CNN, driving to Texaco to fill up your Ford while listening to Kiss 100. You ponder changing to diet Pepsi like Mado ...

(10 pages) 382 0 3.5 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Planning for the Future in ChevronTexaco.

ChevronTexaco's planning processes is a long and cumbersome one. Since ChevronTexaco is a multi-national, m ... work unit, or the overall organization will pursue in the future (Bateman and Snell, 2004). ChevronTexaco utilizes situational analysis and benchmarking to review up to five previous years as to the ... nt on neutralizing old assets, and the capital spent on operating the existing assets. Also, ChevronTexaco will forecast their planned growth for next year and the years beyond. Those forecasted costs ...

(4 pages) 70 0 0.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Organizing in ChevronTexaco.

As with many large corporations, ChevronTexaco is force to operate in diverse functional organization. Global upstream business and global d ... at diverse markets or products can be effectively handled. In fact, to be completely honest, ChevronTexaco's organizational structure has diagrams that are Conventional, Functional, Centralized, Decen ... that has over 60,000 employees in over 180 countries, not just one structure is appropriate.ChevronTexaco is headquartered in San Ramon, California, with offices throughout the United States and the ...

(3 pages) 56 1 5.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

CASE STUDY: Cultural Change at Texaco.

Ethics in Mangement PHL/323Cultural Change at TexacoIntroduction.Texaco was founded in the American South around the beginning of the 20th century ... he 20th century. The oil and gas demands of the industrial revolution required energy providers and Texaco was an early pioneer of American oil drilling and refining services. The company's profits gr ... championed civil rights and established progressive programs to embrace diversity in the workplace, Texaco failed to change and allowed a laissez faire attitude towards racial integration to continue ...

(8 pages) 372 1 2.3 Oct/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Chevron Texaco Merger

What do you think the real reasons for Chevron Texaco merger are? Unlike previous mergers in the oil industry, it appears that the Chevron-Texaco m ... cale is the reduction in the amount of labor needed to produce a given amount of output.The Chevron Texaco merger might also have been motivated by management?s gain perspectives. Top management proba ... ney.Management?s ego seems to have had a considerable weight in the process that led to the Chevron-Texaco merger. The reason why, in 1999, an earlier attempt of merger between chevron and Texaco was ...

(3 pages) 38 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Trinkets And Beads

itions were discussed that are a great part of the Huaorani and Cofan tribes. Oil companies such as Texaco and Shell began to use the Huaorani territory to drill for oil. The Huaorani tribes fought ag ... f the tribes themselves rather than the oil companies. I would have liked to hear more of Shell and Texaco's side of the story. However, the religion issue was pretty balanced. I especially enjoyed th ...

(1 pages) 3080 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Trinkets And Beads

itions were discussed that are a great part of the Huaorani and Cofan tribes. Oil companies such as Texaco and Shell began to use the Huaorani territory to drill for oil. The Huaorani tribes fought ag ... f the tribes themselves rather than the oil companies. I would have liked to hear more of Shell and Texaco's side of the story. However, the religion issue was pretty balanced. I especially enjoyed th ...

(1 pages) 1895 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Antonin Scalia (1936--)

ntly does. One important case that Judge Scalia ruled a concurring opinion upon was the case Texaco v. Hasbrouck in 1990. The case involved the mega-gasoline distributor, Texaco, its direct res ... utor, Texaco, its direct respondents, and two distibutors, Gull Oil Company and Dosier Oil Company. Texaco was selling its gasoline directly to its respondents and several other retailers in Spokane, ...

(2 pages) 13 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Alumina Tort Liability

pany would be liable for the operations of the corporation due to misconduct as such companies like Texaco, Enron and many others. There are many corporations from 1975 threw the 1990s that started hi ...

(5 pages) 151 0 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Mergers and Acquisitions: Part I

s which is, as the name suggest, when a company simply buys another company. Since both Chevron and Texaco offered the same product, it only made sense to join these companies with a horizontal merger ... e same product, it only made sense to join these companies with a horizontal merger creating ChevronTexaco Corporation, a business that ranks with the world's largest and most competitive internationa ...

(5 pages) 104 0 0.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Impacts Caused By Oil Drilling in Ecuador

r is biodiversity land filled with many species of plants, insects, and amphibians. That was before Texaco, now part of Chevron discovered oil in the Amazon basin of Ecuador. During the 1960's through ... part of Chevron discovered oil in the Amazon basin of Ecuador. During the 1960's through the 1990's Texaco drilled oil in Ecuador with little environmental laws that existed or were enforced. Texaco d ...

(7 pages) 2 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays