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Small Businesses and the Value of IT

receptive to the idea. However, upon meeting with Margaret at JavaBooks, the nature of the business need for information technol...

Measuring Cultural Differences

Developed in the 1980s, when international business first underwent a major surge, the cultural dimensions theory is a model throu...

A Business Plan

a focus on establishing distinct customer service operations. Background The hospital industry is a significant part of t...

Shadow and De Facto Directors

behaves, not just the directors or the officers of a company. Individuals that are not on the board may still be at...

Theodore Levitt's 1960 Article 'Marketing Myopia'

as time when by they began to decline, they did not see themselves as transportation companies, but merely as railroads. Therefore...

African American Females and Discrimination

and even a lack of trust on the part of the black population (Zmuda, 2002). Women, in general, face a glass ceiling when attempti...

Case Studies on Small Business

show for it. His idea to have the place looking like an art gallery had not had the intended effect as well. In short, Steve made ...

Student Supplied Change Management Case Study

control over the manufacturing process. The location of the company with the production facilities near London airport may also be...

E-Commerce Failures

to place a grocery order online and have it delivered to his home in the metropolitan areas in which Webvan operated. In the days...

Eye on the Future Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900 by Henry C. Klassen

other scholars for generations to come, as Klassen has established himself as the foremost authority on local business history i...

eBusiness Strategy Defining

of the corporation is one that helps to ensure its continuity and relevance to its market. Shareholder value will decline if the ...

Strategic Planning v. Business Planning

how the company will attempt to attract and keep customers. The financial plan demonstrates how the company will earn money and ho...

Entrepreneurial Small Business Marketing and Advertising Plan

coming up with that product or service, than letting the market know that this product/service is available. This is about determi...

Operating a Small Business While Learning

proposed by Kolb, has four main stages, these all reinforce each other and create a continuous learning cycles. These may be seen ...

Murder Charges of Businesses After a Fatality in the Workplace

in a murder, the employer may be liable, dependent on the circumstances. There are of course other ways that employers may be impl...

The Ethics of the Phillip Morris Company

of nicotine and also that cigarettes not a drug and not addictive. Other tobacco company CEOs also testified cigarette smoking not...

Process of 'Big Bet' Business Risks

The author of this article went on to point out companies in Canada that had made and succeeded on big bets (such as Nortel on opt...

UK Small Business Impact of 2002 and 2003 Budgets

only one year (H M Treasury, 2002). However, this is a move to stimulate growth in the future, and as such has little impact now. ...

Changing Environment Strategy

how this progression can be measured against the industries best practices as well as the companies own goals (Thompson, 1998). Be...

Computers a Household Necessity

taxpayers produce myriad receipts for purchases and expenses, it generally will blindly accept any self-designed spreadsheet of ho...

International Business, Strategies and Issues

same level of centralisation. This is a selective centralisation, combined with decentralisation, usually facilitated by internal ...

eStrategy Implementation Questions

by an entire enterprise, experts are unanimous in agreeing that enterprise strategic planning initiatives wont be successful, unle...

Home Health Service Provider Business Plan

or may not have a market, home health care is a service that always has a market of some size. The business is a proven one, one ...

A Communities of Practice The Organizational Frontier Article Analysis

to customers, create new markets, rapidly develop new products and dominate emergent technologies" (p. 2). Basically, he s...

EU and UK Law Applied to Case Study Involving Faulty Goods' Sale and Pregnancy Discrimination

In a paper consisting of twelve pages and three parts EU and UK law applications are examined in terms of territorial arrangements...

Different Countries and Ecommerce Building

for consumers (Anonymous, 1999). In one example, when Lands End (a mail order clothing supplier in the U.S.), talked about winter ...

Case Study on Purchasing a Business

and Martha would be close to $75,000. Lets examine the balance sheet and see if we cant answer the initial question of...

Capital Risk Management

it will save more than it will cost, adding value to the company and be cost efficient. The main risks that are felt ion interna...

Operations Management and Small Business

is costly and too little results in lost sales and a decline in customer goodwill. It is not easy to calculate the amount of inven...

Hong Kong's eCommerce Challenges

In a paper consisting of fifty nine pages Hong Kong's business community is examined in terms of internet trading and ecommerce ch...