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THE ENRON IMPLOSION AND ORGANIZATIONAL FAILURES

their behavior. Along with this, Enron believed in its own publicity as the poster child of corporate culture for the "new economy...

Comparing Porter with the Resource Based View

The Five Forces model may be argued as a tool that helps a firm to understand the way that it needs to compete and how to develop ...

An Outline of Different Models of Change

norms. The last approach is coercive, were power is used, usually with the use of legitimate power. The last stage is refreezing ...

ENRON: ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, CULTURES AND IRREGULARITIES

corporation. But to avoid conflict of interest, SPEs are supposed to be run by outsiders who have no involvement in the main compa...

WORLDCOM AND FRAUDULENT ACCOUNTING

2005). The result would be an increase in the current years EBIDTA (Scharff, 2005). The line costs, in fact, were the main ...

Overview of the Five Forces Model Developed by Michael Porter

In six pages this paper discusses various external forces as they impact upon business with a fictitious company application of Mi...

Faith Community Hospital Management

aware that Faith Community hospital deals in "product" much more valuable than anything that could be produced by a factory or dea...

REAL Model and Jet Travel

Trade Center towers and Pentagon. Although Jet Travel Intelligence had changed its business model many times since the com...

Business Competition v. Collaboration

idea that traditional, old fashioned competition is what drives business. Money and profit and what is "best for the company" are ...

Porter's Five Forces Analysis of UK and Ghana Credit

new entrants, substitute products (or services), and the power of purchasers and suppliers. Porter does not see these exte...

Peer Reviewed Articles on Play Therapy

direct the session at all, but simply asks questions that stimulate communication between the child and the facilitator. This mode...

The Marketing Information System

customers are buying, and what they are buying together, at the same time. Associates speak freely with customers, and the inform...

Jordan Business and Joint Ventures

6 pages, 6 sources. This paper considers the nature of Jordanian business and the impacts of joint ventures with American compani...

The Hewlett-Packard Acquisition of Compaq

put together provide a full range of consulting and product support, including the commercial server market. In addition to this t...

Comparing and Contrasting TQM and BPR

result in improvements (Mintzberg et al, 2008; Reed et al, 1996). Defining TQM is difficult, there is no standard definiti...

Economic Models' Application

In twenty pages this paper discusses how to apply various economic model in a consideration of employment level determination, eco...

Monetary Model and Mundel Fleming Model Applications

in which currencies behave will have a large impact on any countries import and export business, and as such will be of a signific...

Corporate Greed and its Psychosocial Effects

life savings and retirement plans of countless employees who had worked hard to save their funds - but because of corporate greed,...

Furniture Business and Business Ethics

their own financial futures into working for the company. Customers who have trust in the company not only return for future purc...

Analysis of the Merger Between WorldCom and MCI WorldCom

In six pages a SWOT analysis is performed on this telecommunications merger. Eleven sources are cited in the bibliography....

K Mart and Alternative Business Model Uses

In seven pages the uses of such alternative business models as Likerts Profiles, the Contingency Theory of Lawrence and Lorsch, th...

Cultural Aspects of China and Brazil

The writer examines the cultural aspects of China and Brazil with regard to the way the two nations relate to the West. The writer...

The 2006 Hurricane Season: The Importance of Predictions

managers. Pre-planning is one of the most critical components of disaster preparedness. Hurricane preparations must begin months...

GDP Questions

of a new car. If the figure were included in the GDP in the year is was sold ion it would mean the car would have been counted twi...

Managerial Capitalism

the railroads (Chandler, 1977). The development of the industry and the scope and scale necessitated new styles of management stru...

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS: HAPPY ENDING OR HYPE?

However, authors such as Eric Clemons (1995) caution that reengineering is a "risky business" - companies attempting to either do ...

Setting up a Vietnamese Restaurant - A Research Proposal

the first three years (Parsa et al, 2005). This indicates that opening a restaurant and running it may be a risky business and th...

WorldCom's Bankruptcy

to find that the market was quickly glutted and could not sustain itself; the infamous "dot com boom" around the turn of the mille...

Why an IT Project Failed

as a former, but more simple, IT project took 2 years this should have been a warning sign. The two year time scale was only for t...

Scientific Management in the UK

been able to cope with the expansive growth seen over the last fifty years. In order to consider this we need to look at the compa...