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Marriage Norms: India v Canada

with individuals tracing their lineage through their mothers rather than their fathers. A much more important consideration in re...

NIGERIA OIL, AND THE CURSE OF BLACK GOLD

of Nigeria, which is exporting more oil (United Arab Emirates, 2009). Granted, the systems of government are very differe...

THINK GLOBAL, ACT GLOBAL OR VICE VERSA: A DISCUSSION ABOUT STANDARDIZATION VS. LOCALITY AMONG MNCS

to operate quite successfully in different countries. In this paper, well attempt to examine the literature and examples t...

Collectivism and Commitment; Implications for Cross Cultural Management

tools such as 5 Ss and Six Sigma through to the general approaches of co-operative management (Katz and Darbishire, 2002). One ...

History of Wedding Dresses

weddings resembled pagan festivals and most of then involved the celebration of spring (important planting season for these agricu...

The Impact of the Multi Fibre Agreement

to protect their clothing and textile industries and their economies. A range of measures were introduced, the longest lasting of ...

Themes of "Neighbor Rosicky" by Willa Cather

his heart. The very act of carving out a new life in an unfamiliar territory casts its share of fear and anxiety, however, this u...

Deterring Piracy

however, by the insistence of some segments of society that pirates have the same rights that are granted to law abiding citizens....

Urban Informal Economy of Latin America and Ideology

In ten pages this paper examines the urban informal economic structures of Latin American countries and the influence of ideology ...

Benefits of Merging a Sheriff’s Office and Police Department

and Cincinnati, Ohio. Its easy to see why it makes sense. Although the general distinction between the sheriff and police is tha...

Divorce and the Impacts of Globalization

Introduction The rate of successful marriage verses divorce varies considerable between the...

Terrorists and Their Methods of Torture

of torture has been muddied in recent years, mostly by the Bush Administrations splitting of the concept into two parts: torture a...

Analysis of Toyota in China

Chinese government is very involved in businesses in the country. There are numerous laws and regulations for any industry. The le...

Staying the Course

body of all-source reporting indicates that activists identifying themselves as jihadists, although a small percentage of Muslims,...

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

"Marketing, the ethic of consumption, and less-developed counties"

identification is (more or less) closely bound up with what one owns or consumes" (Brenkert, 1998; p. 93). These are the people t...

THE ECONOMICS OF OPEC

of drug, the copyright or patent on those drugs effectively erase all competition for a period of several years, to allow the comp...

Effects of Layoffs at Verizon

did not intend to lay off people but that is not what employees report on blogs (Goldstein, 2009). One employee in Philadelphia re...

Human Resource Challenges in China

model that China is moving to embracing more market forces that the former demand economy means that there are different pressures...

Ethics at Nike

Nike is often criticized, with the accusation that they are an unethical company exploiting low paid workers in developing countri...

The Potential Positive Impact of Foreign Direct Investment

investment has the potential to aid developing countries, increase economic health and as such have a direct impact on the househo...

Consideration of the Brazil for Investment by a Biomedical Technology Firm from the United States

These types of development are reflected in the healthcare that is demanded and expected (Bilton et al, 2006). In terms of the so...

Neoliberal, Radical and Transformationalist Approaches to Explain the Way Globalization Impacts on Culture

as embracing more than simply the practice of international trade. A useful definition comes from Lubber and Koorevaar, (1998) who...

Is the Ghanaian Economy Ready for Part-Time and Remote Tertiary Education Provision?

2010). This has meant in terms of education and the educational infrastructure there was an inheritance fro the former colonial p...

Assessment of GE Netcom

the same economies of scale but they have a lower level of risk, selling to the consumer markets, which has been aided by the acqu...

Barriers to Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam

followed by inflation and then a decline in the past as well as currency depreciation. This indicates that there may still be op...

IS IT WORTH IT? BRINGING SOCCER’S WORLD CUP TO THE UNITED STATES

the advantages to hosting such an event? Even more importantly, how is it that a nation that is not anywhere near as soccer-mad as...

The Marketing of New Zealand

campaign has been focused, even during the global recession when international tourism tends to stagnate or decline. For example, ...

POSITIVE IMPACTS OF THE INTERNET IN CHINA

upon millions of people were able to access a variety of information about Beijing and China. All of this information was positive...

The Potential Influence of the Digital Revolution on Society

wave, on written there is a continuous form of data recorded. The way that human perceive information is analogue, as all visual o...