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Financial Performance of Shell Oman

The writer looks at the performance of Shell in Oman comparing the firm to two other firms; Al Maha and Oman Oil. The ratios exami...

Working Capital Management

The writer examines what is meant by the term capital management and why it is important for the financial management of a firm. T...

Assessment of Qatar Navigation as a Potential Investment

The marine transportation and solutions provider Qatar Navigation, is examined from the perspective of an investor. After an intr...

The Attractions and Risks Associated with United Kingdom As a Target for Foreign Direct Investment

The writer considers the position of a US firm considering undertaking FDI into the UK. The first part of the paper looks at why t...

The Strategies and Competitive Environment of Google

The writer examines Google Inc., looking at the strategies found at business and organizational level. The writer then considers t...

Current Literature Trends on Change and their Use in Research for Organizations in Crisis

The writer examines the current approaches which are emerging in research concerning organizational change at a time of crisis. Th...

Assessment of JetBlue

The writer looks at the airline industry in 2007/8, and assessed the main drivers and success factors. JetBlue is assessed using ...

Cultural Differences in an Acquisition

The writer looks at the problems faced by Indian firm Nicholas Piramal India Ltd (NPIL) when acquiring a western firm. The managem...

HRM at Acer

The writer looks at the way human resource management takes place at the computer firm Acer. Three different HR policies are used ...

McDonalds and Their Strategy

The writer examined McDonalds. looking at the firm in the context of different business ideas. The first section considers the in...

How is Strategy Impacted by Institutional Factors?

Institutional factors have a significant impact on firms. This paper considers the way that different institutional factors will ...

Tools for Public Relations

The writer presents a paper written in two parts, both parts concern at issues associated with firms using marketing PR. In the f...

Strategic Decision Making for IMAX

as a result of the high level of immersion experience that cannot be felt in a traditional cinema, is likely to increase the deman...

Investors and Corporate Governance

and executive pay. This measure requires companies to place before its shareholders any executive compensation packages in an effo...

RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BUSINESS FIRM

problem with shareholder theory (at least according to a column written by Christensen and Anthony in 2007), is that it forces man...

The Merger of Lloyds TSB with the Royal Bank of Scotland

decision left the bank very vulnerable. The bank was near collapse following the events of the recent credit crunch, wit...

Corporate Governance at HSBC

4% of the bank. With a large number of shareholders the individuals, even the individual institutional investors are unlikely to ...

IKEA, FREEMAN AND FRIEDMAN

with a high conservation value (Bartlett et al, 2006). But the issue with child labor was two-fold. Should IKEA try to...

Conflict and Resolution in the Agency Relationship

In seven pages this report discusses the conflict between shareholders and corporate managers in an agency relationship and the wa...

Is the Shareholder View Outdated?

the globalization of business continues to progress and the world economy continues to emerge, the concept of stakeholders in corp...

Market Issues

off potential competition (Nellis and Parker, 2006). This provides some protection for new entrants, and it may be argued is likel...

The Challenges of Adopting Customer Centric Processes

market capitalization 64 Figure 13 Hierarchy and Customer Centric Organisational Structure 70 Figure 14 Push Organization 72 Figur...

Ethics Issues of the Caltex Plant in South Africa

become complex, as the firm has a duty to the shareholders to undertake business to create profit, potential losses and lost oppor...

Boards of Directors Duties

honestly, and to monitor the actions of corporate executives (AbdulJaami, 2007). They are liable for these duties and can be punis...

The Practice of Corporate Governance at British Petroleum (BP)

British Petroleum, which now incorporates Amaco, is highly active within the energy sector, specifically the oil industry. The wri...

Leaders and Their Failures

of success; for non profit organizations, which may include government organizations and charities, there are likely to be specifi...

Should Airlines Hedge their Fuel Purchases?

the firm to the relevant stakeholders (Chyssides and Kaler, 1998). When looking at the way airlines in particular operate prote...

Future Value and Present Value Calculations

objective matter, such as money, in a subjective context, such as the future. This can lead to a variety of troubles, wherein indi...

Focus Paper: Leadership

vendors, and the people doing the work (Brown, 2002, pp. 2-3). This individual exemplifies the characteristics of what Collins d...

Death of a Salesman/Pursuit of Happyness

he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...