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Small Businesses and E-Commerce

has transformed many aspects of the world. Chief among these, of course, is the manner in which business is conducted. While busin...

Issues in HRM - The Work Life Balance and Issues of Fairness

employers are obliged to comply for all of their employees and protect employees rights; reducing pressure from employers for empl...

The Benefits of a Public Private Partnership For Healthcare Services Provision

The writer looks at the way in which the provision of a new healthcare center may be facilitated using a public private partnershi...

Cloud Computing - The Impact on Organizations

be "outsourced" to these cloud computing companies, due to the advantages inherent in "untying applications from specific infrastr...

Tata’s Ability to Compete

the Indian commercial environment. Tata Motors is has been able to develop and builds vehicles for the local market, benefiting ...

Strategies and Change At Temsa Global

reducing the reliance on Mitsubishi and placing them in a stronger position. It was using this research and development capability...

Health Care Funding Alternatives

recently become one of the most controversial and important of all political discussions. Having dominated the debates surrounding...

Does the World Trade Organization Hinder Economic Growth in Developing Countries?

first world nation economies. A good example of this was the multi-fibre agreement. Many developing countries, such as China, ha...

Diversity Training in Organizations

respects. One of the most important differences between the modern business world and that which existed just a few decades ago is...

Using Real People as Analogies for Brand Names

which is being described. It has also been stated by William James, a US philosopher and psychologists, that if "people pe...

Are Successful Salesmen Equally Successful in Sales Management?

be seen (Richter, 1995). The question then arises, which is the best sales person to promote. The top sales person may be the pr...

Global Trade and ICOTERMS

on board (fob) or cast, insurance and freight (Biederman, 2000). Other terms included are EXW (Ex works), CPT (Carriage Paid To) a...

Websites and Marketing

The competitive advantage of the site is not immediately apparent, as the site looks easy to use. In looking at some sections ther...

Employment Relationship and Partnership

it is a particular style of collectivism that is now dated and that the new way forward should be a new form of collectivism based...

Investment Appraisal Technique of Discounted Cash Flow

price to be paid whatever the individual decides to do with their money, if it is chosen to invest it the cost is not having it to...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Themes of Class and Racial Prejudice

and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...

Analysis of the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act

included in this Act is criminal provisions that aimed at preserving evidence of fraud (Leahy, 2003). This means that CPAs and aud...

Falling Exchange Rates and What Influences Them

used. Firstly there can be seen as the overriding value. If a currency has a relatively low value, then exports are cheap and as s...

Which Represents the Best Research Methodology?

between the subject of study and the researcher. Quantitative research studies, in contrast, stress measurement and statistical an...

Study of Groups, Psychodynamic and Experimental Methods

is also the case that such a social context can be implied, as well as explicit, in studies of individuals. It would be reasonable...

U.S. Civil War Outcome and the Role of Weapons

and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...

Strategic Alliances and Definitions of Multinational and Transnational

or technology (Todeva and Knoke, 2001). There are a number of types of strategic alliances, including: * Joint Venture where two o...

Overview of Strategic Alliances

Industries was also created in this manner as no single partner in the alliance could afford to undertake the research and develop...

Business, Internet, and IS

the Internet, trading partners can bypass intermediaries and inefficient multi-layered procedures. Furthermore, Web-sites are avai...

Definition and Examples of Virtual Communities

formation of a virtual community may occur in many environments and as a result of many different pull factors, from entertainmen...

Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit Plans

tells employees that they are responsible for their retirement income -- and that other people will not necessarily take care of t...

Family Counseling and Solution Based Therapy

to which the therapist then compares the person/family in therapy. In so doing, s/he focuses on how different the family is from t...

Warfare and Joint Operations' Purpose

to "expand joint interaction and provide some additional standardization among theaters" (Carpenter, 2003). Overall howeve...

Transfer Pricing and Balanced Scorecard

gathering and processing information from the companys existing computer systems. Using the information gained it then decides if ...

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

a significance in the fact that precisely at midnight on August 15, 1947, the actual date of independence, two babies would come i...