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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Global companies"”.
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Workplace Diversity Disclosure by Global Companies: An Exploration
… of workplace diversity disclosure (WDD) of global companies in their 2016 corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. A combination of content analysis and mini-case study is employed. The sample of this research is Fortune 100 companies. Research results indicate that the extent, content …
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Veränderungen der Unternehmenskultur im Rahmen von ERP-Projekten bei globalen Unternehmen
… and financial challenges, especially for global companies, confronted with cultural differences and varying degrees of local requirements. While research studies propose success factors for ERP-projects including managing change of corporate culture, there is a lack of research on how …
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Placement of engineering centers in emerging market countries
… understand the benefits and challenges faced by global companies in China and India. The study focused on a few global companies (Delphi, General Electric, and Motorola) that had engineering centers in both China and India. Two sets of data, direct data and indirect data, were collected. Direct …
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Analysis of the Indian Vegetable Seed Industry
… to production, technology and services for the global companies. This is due to the large infrastructural research network, diversity of agro-climatic conditions, and relatively less expensive labor and technical manpower in India. The complementary mode of public/private partnership in seed R&D …
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Environmental disclosure in the Libyan oil and gas sector
… of the fierce competition between local and global companies. Concerned investors have therefore started to press for environmental information to be disclosed in companies’ annual reports.
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Science and technology driving change in drug R&D : some lessons for the Japanese pharmaceutical industry
… Since the beginning of the 1990s, pharmaceutical companies have actively invested into such technologies. Some investment has been in-house, but many companies have acquired high-tech ventures or formed strategic alliances. Today it is necessary for every firm to make the best use of all these …
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The impact of international logistics parks on global supply chains
With the globalization of industries since the 1980's, logistics parks have emerged as a solution for the consolidation of operations and logistics services for global companies. In the beginning, logistics parks were limited to enabling companies to centralize their operations using shared …
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The effect of marketing programmes on buying behaviours of Libyan consumers
… issues of Standardisation versus Adaptation in global marketing have received substantial attention from researchers over the past three decades. Opinions have varied, and the debate continues, lively, today. This has stressed the importance of cross-countries marketing programme research for …
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Engineering warm fuzzies: applying UX principals to create multi-channel philanthropic experiences
… of falling into the trap of thinking What are global best practices in higher education advancement?, we should be asking Which global companies are curious and responsive in their interaction with humans, and what can we learn from them? In answering these questions, this thesis tests a …
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Culture and E-Commerce: Culture Based Preferences for Interface Information Design
Global companies face the challenge of offering their products or services to a wider audience. While the Internet has made it easier to distribute information globally, information design for different cultures is still very difficult. Cultural models can be used to identify differences between …
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Prospective marketing meta-analysis : the effect of TV vs new media car ads on consumer car consideration probabilities in China and USA
… addresses a major marketing challenge faced by global companies: how to spend online marketing budgets with maximum effect on end user behavior. Specifically, we examine the effectiveness of strategically placed online car ads on end users' new car considerations. The research in this paper is …
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Development of a global facility location analysis tool
With an economy and customer base that is global, companies are increasingly expanding outside their home country's borders. Many times this is done to take advantage of lower labor or material rates, to increase proximity to the customer, to decrease logistics and transportation costs, to avoid …
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The Glass Ceiling: Exploring the Leadership Journey of Men and Women in High-Tech
… positions in certain high-profile S&P 500 global companies. Yet women continue to be noticeably underrepresented in leadership roles, especially in high tech companies. Through the lenses of social constructivist and feminist theories of gender stereotypes, social/gender roles, and role …
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Internationalising small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) a learning approach
… were participating in the Scottish Enterprise Global Companies Development Programme. Multiple semi-structured interviews with the chief executive officers were carried out over a three year period and access was gained to Scottish Enterprise records and consultancy reports on the firms. This …
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Opportunities created by information technology for the executive in the engineering and construction industry
… aimed at connecting its members, executives of global companies, through a virtual network. The project was called Welcom for World Electronic Community, and it was a first attempt in developing an information technology solution focused on executive's needs. To understand how information …
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Rhetorical strategies of foreign executives in revitalizing Japanese global enterprise
… first non-Japanese top executives of Japanese global enterprises. At the time they were appointed CEOs, both companies were in crisis: Nissan almost facing bankruptcy and sale; Sony coping with a huge deficit and threats from emerging competitors. The main question in this paper is how Ghosn …
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Hitachi, the largest Japanese conglomerate, and its transformation in the innovation era
… since its foundation and 864 subsidiaries globally. It serves in a wide variety of industries including but not limited to information systems, social infrastructure and automotive systems as well as home appliances. In 2008, however, due to the financial crisis, Hitachi scored the largest …
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A critical review of the approaches and attitudes of South African property valuers towards the valuation of hotels under a contemporary management agreement
… sector, and although these grew in popularity globally in the 1970's and 1980's, the sanctions which prevented multinational companies wanting to do business in South Africa, allowed local hotel groups to grow in the absence of the world's leading lodging companies. South African property …
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An empirical investigation: How small to mid-sized enterprises use innovation on the path toward ecological sustainability
… are reshaping a new sustainability path for companies. This empirical investigation explored the phenomenon of sustainability in small to mid-sized enterprises, focusing on the link between innovation and ecological sustainability. In addressing the research questions, an Eco-Sustainability …
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Media globalization in Greater China : strategies of transnational media players and the regional television space
… industry in the context of the debate on globalization. It presents an overview of the transnational corporate practices and the resulting transformation of the Greater China's television industry. The objective of this dissertation is threefold. It analyzes the development of the …
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