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many organizations is that a homogenous group of managers can be more complimentary to the organizations mission and goals. In ot...

led to greater losses. The company was very top-heavy with 35 vice-presidents, each of whom was extremely territorial. There was ...

fault entirely, he stepped down to make the controversy go away. Still, such ideas linger. When do the obligations of the firm to ...

its popular Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office Suite. The company has expanded within the last decade to include su...

there have been plenty of legal problems besetting the company, mostly from rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (Hoovers Company Pr...

processes (Chidi, 2002). Some of the accounting techniques used at WorldCom in order to supplement R&D write-offs included the use...

trade publications, scholarly journals and business magazines. We chose to research these items from all three categories, because...

tag, it is hard to know whether or not the future will be just as kind to this firm that has done well so far. After all, the econ...

year (Lee and Raza, 2000). Since Russia had been a large purchaser of mobile phones, Nokias mobile division experienced severe los...

competition has been around almost as long as CSC has. CSC has, in fact, spent much of its time in acquiring other smaller compani...

without being asked, in order to facilitate a transaction (with that "something of value" referring to money). There is no coercio...

a great deal to do with the number of external factors and affiliations which many say reveal a weakness in the competitive and ri...

were fiercely protected and licensed, but information shared with doctors. The trust levels were enhanced, which in turn created a...

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

McNamara, 2000; Steward, Manz and Sims, 1999). In this particular group, only one member, the accountant, seemed reluctant to shar...

companies and then analyze their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Overview WHY THE ACQUISITION Perhaps un...

manager is to work effectively outside their home country (Allard, 1995, p. 6). * The ability to learn and integrate new knowledge...

have been petitions against Wal-Mart opening in certain regions due to the competition factor. Few small retail stores can compete...

Proctor and Gamble pharmaceuticals are a lively division. This is a company where it was once the role of the sales representative...

to customer preference. Maytag also owns Dixie-Narco which is one of the leaders in refrigerated soft drink and vending machines. ...

percent of those surveyed said that CEOs of large corporations could not be trusted and 80 percent said that top executives of lar...

in this case, the shareholders are Canadian citizens (Larson and Neville, 1998). Privatization continues to be a topic of controv...

Microsoft products are used by virtually (pun intended) student, worker, or any other category of person who regularly uses a comp...

economic advantages over the working class that undermine political equality, a presupposition for viable democracy. From the nigh...

essentials, in terms of soy sauce and associated condiments, and desirable for the non essential condiments, such as tomato sauce,...

occurs in order to enrich a company and take advantage of opportunities to create more value for shareholders. However, highly gea...

values are or what they should be. There is a holding to the old ways of informal relationships, which is fine except for the fact...

World War II, this approach is based on strict military tradition (Harfield, 1998; see also Whittington, 1993). In other words, th...

2003). Duke also identifies the companys values that include: integrity; stewardship; inclusion; initiative; teamwork; and accou...

terms of computer sales, selling a $999 PC in 1999 (Hoovers Company Profiles, 2003). Dell has also pioneered another busine...