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  • Proton International Market

    Proton International Market

    1.0 INTRODUCTION Proton was established on May 7, 1983 as a private limited company under the name Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Sdn.Bhd 1983 to manufacture, assemble and sell motor vehicles and related products including accessories, spare parts and other components. Currently, Proton has almost 11,000 employees who are involved in a spectrum of business ranging from research, design, development, testing, stamping, casting, machining and assembly to marketing, distribution and after sales activities. Strong customer-orientation and competitively-priced

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    Essay Length: 1,351 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: regina
  • Iphone and Ethical Issues

    Iphone and Ethical Issues

    On June 29, 2007, Apple Inc. launched sales of the iPhone at Apple and AT&T stores across the country. Many hours earlier, enthusiastic customers lined up outside stores to get the first iPhone in their hands. The iPhone is more than just a breakthrough mobile-phone device. It is a strategy that may expand Apple’s sphere of influence. Apple elegantly combined a mobile phone, mp3 player, and personal digital assistant (PDA) on the same machine characterized

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    Essay Length: 795 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Free to Trade: Democracies, Autocracies, and International Trade

    Free to Trade: Democracies, Autocracies, and International Trade

    American Political Science Review Vol. 94, No.2 June 2000 "Free to Trade: Democracies, Autocracies, and International Trade" By: Edward D. Mansfield Helen V. Milner B. Peter Rosendorff The central question that is explored in this article is what kind of political regime is best for free trading in domestic or international commerce. At the same time it address the variation between democracy and autocracy, not on variation within either regime type. Some of the major

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    Essay Length: 363 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Ethical Issues: Walmart

    Ethical Issues: Walmart

    “WAL-MART SUCKS …. Life out of our communities.” This bumper sticker became the start of a long thought process. As I researched and pondered this small and simple line, I decided that another should be added to this sticker. It should say, “Wal-Mart sucks… life out of our communities, our people, and smaller underdeveloped countries.” In this essay I will focus on one of the many ethical issues surrounding Wal-Mart, labor rights and the

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    Essay Length: 2,790 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Management Failure of Tyco International

    The Management Failure of Tyco International

    The Management Failure of Tyco International Tyco International was founded by Edward Breen in 1960 (Wikipedia, 2007). According to Wikipedia, (2007), Tyco International’s operational headquarters is located in Princeton, New Jersey, and employs 247,900 employees. Dennis Kozlowski became the CEO in 1992, leading with aggressiveness acquiring several other companies into the organization (Wikipedia, 2007). In 1999, after a stock split, rumors began to spread about Tyco’s accounting habits. It was said that Tyco was producing

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    Essay Length: 1,306 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Max
  • Advantages of International Trade

    Advantages of International Trade

    Advantages of international trade One of the key advantages of international trade is gains of trade based on comparative advantage. Comparative advantage states that countries should specialise in the goods and services of which they are comparatively better at producing (Begg and Ward 2004). A country has comparative advantage over another in the production of a good if it can product it at a lower opportunity cost (Sloman and Hinde 2007). It normally arises from

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    Essay Length: 306 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Janna
  • International Business Opportunities in Germany

    International Business Opportunities in Germany

    INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES IN GERMANY Executive Summary This paper examines the opportunity for international business in Germany. It reviews Germany’s history, demographics, political and economic structure in regards to how they support or do not support an environment that nurtures international business opportunities. Additionally a review of Germany’s attitude towards foreign direct investment, its participation as a member of the World Trade Organization as well as economic conditions such as stability of its currency, gross

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    Essay Length: 1,704 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Wendy
  • International Instruments and Treaty Bodies

    International Instruments and Treaty Bodies

    International Instruments and Treaty Bodies • Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949) • Equal Remuneration Convention (1951) • Convention on the Political Rights of Women (1952) • Convention on the Nationality of Married Women (1957) • Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (1958) • Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960) • Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of

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    Essay Length: 1,902 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Yan
  • Japanese American Internment Camps

    Japanese American Internment Camps

    Japanese American Internment Camps Overwhelmingly the response of people in times of desperation is to survive at all costs and make the best of the situation. American history in the mid 20th century provides vivid example of desperate times such as those who were hit hardest by the era of the depression and also those who were displaced from their homes into Internment camps following World War II and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Comparing

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    Essay Length: 1,774 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • Time Management & Family Issues

    Time Management & Family Issues

    Time Management and Family Issues Upon returning to college, the mature student (any student over the age of 24) soon realizes that their ability to manage time effectively directly impacts their learning experience and their family life. Unlike traditional students, the mature student may have a spouse, children and a full-time job that is necessary for them to survive financially. Adults with families will readily agree that their family alone places serious demands on their

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    Essay Length: 660 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Monika
  • Identify Internal Control Principles

    Identify Internal Control Principles

    A. Identify internal control principles 1.The first internal control principal is an applied establishment of responsibility. Only one designated person is authorized to handle the tickets. One roll is designated per shift and the manager locks the roll in the cash register. Also designating only one person like a cashier to handle cash and different individuals should be assigned the duties of receiving cash, recording cash, and custody of cash. 2.The next principal is the

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    Essay Length: 476 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Life, Death, and the Political Issues Surrounding Abortion

    Life, Death, and the Political Issues Surrounding Abortion

    Life, Death, and the Political issues surrounding Abortion Few issues have embodied such controversy as abortion has. The various people involved in the abortion debate not only have strong beliefs, but each group has a self appeal that clearly reflects what they believe to be the essential issues. The abortion supporters see individual choice as central to the debate: If a woman cannot choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, a condition which affects her

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    Essay Length: 2,716 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Global Issues Report

    Global Issues Report

    Quest III October 13, 2006 Juan Arcila School Shooting Levin, A. (n.d.). Grief travels through Amish country. USA Today, Retrieved Thursday, October 12, 2006 from the Academic Search Premier database. Sean D. Hamill. 911 Transcripts Are Released in Amish School Shooting; Killer Was Calm. The New York Times, Retrieved Thursday, October 12, 2006. Joshua Partlow and Raymond McCaffrey. A Plain and Profound Farewell; Pennsylvania Amish Community Buries Girls Killed by Neighbor in Schoolhouse Shooting. The

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    Essay Length: 361 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: David
  • Environmental Issues in China

    Environmental Issues in China

    As our population is growing, when we are taking it for granted to ask the nature for resource we want, environmental protection is becoming more and more important and necessary. Water protection is especially urgent now. We can see the water pollution is becoming worse. In this essay, I am going to talk about the recent situation of the water pollution, the bad effects of it and some ways help to solve the problem as

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    Essay Length: 1,194 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Max
  • One of the Largest Issues Facing American Indian’s Today

    One of the Largest Issues Facing American Indian’s Today

    One of the largest issues facing American Indian’s today Kevin Turnage Western International University ETH 123 - Cultural Diversity Carol Agurs December 16, 2005 One of the largest issues facing American Indian’s today One of the largest issues facing the American Indian’s today is that health care. As tribes and urban Indian health centers struggle along with the rest of the country to address the growing numbers of Elders in their communities. There are

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    Essay Length: 1,151 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Issues in the Work Place

    Issues in the Work Place

    Issues in the Work Place There have always been issues in the work place. No matter were you work or what you do there will be an argument, disagreements, or just some type of personnel issue we all have to deal with. As a team we tool three different issues that happen often in the work place and related them to different parts of psychology. One might never think to relate psychology to an issue

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    Essay Length: 1,561 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Steve
  • Issue of Hiv

    Issue of Hiv

    The issue of HIV/AIDS has been a developing problem since the early 1980's. It is an issue that has sparked fear in everyone, but everybody has narrowed it down to certain people that can get AIDS. The regular AIDS victim is not an regular drug user or a practicing homosexual; it is anyone, anyone who has unprotected sex, anyone who has had a blood transfusion in the past twenty years, or anyone who was

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    Essay Length: 910 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • Online Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues in B2b Versus B2c

    Online Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues in B2b Versus B2c

    Online Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues in B2B versus B2C Introduction Companies doing business on the Web must be certain of their ability to manage the liabilities that can emerge as a result of today’s online business environment. This environment includes laws and ethical factors that are sometimes different from those in the brick and mortar setting. The online environment often forms a network of customers who can have considerable levels of communication with each

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    Essay Length: 1,004 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Edward
  • Business Legal Issues - Riordan

    Business Legal Issues - Riordan

    Running head: RIORDAN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS International Business Legal Issues Riordan Manufacturing University of Phoenix BUS415 Business Law 03-2-08 Riordan Manufacturing is an industry leader in plastic injection molding with plants in Georgia, Michigan and now China. With the company’s expansion into a global market, the electronic commerce (e-business) will be a beneficial form of commerce that is currently flourishing in the modern world of global business. The Internet is used to buy and sell goods

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    Essay Length: 1,171 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Bred
  • International Marketing

    International Marketing

    A firm’s international marketing program must generally be modified and adapted to foreign markets. This international marketing program uses strategies to accomplish its marketing goals. Within each foreign nation, the firm is likely to find a combination of marketing environment and target markets that are different from those of its own home country and other foreign countries. It is important that in international marketing, product, pricing, distribution and promotional strategies be adapted accordingly. In order

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    Essay Length: 3,008 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Emc from an International Management Point of View

    Emc from an International Management Point of View

    TABLE OF CONTEXT 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. EMC BRIEFLY 3 3. PESTEL - analysis 4 3.1. Political / legal 4 3.2. Environmental 5 3.3. Socio-cultural 5 3.4. Technological 6 3.5. Economical 7 4. INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY 8 5. GLOBAL vs. LOCAL 9 6. EMC and CSR 10 6.1. Environmental responsibility 10 6.2. “EMC to help combat greenhouse gas emissions” 12 SOURCES OF INFORMATION 1. INTRODUCTION I decided to do my individual assignment about a company

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    Essay Length: 2,533 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Mike
  • Rural Health Issues - Ageing

    Rural Health Issues - Ageing

    The ageing of the Australian population is becoming an issue of increasing political and strategic importance. In addition to government concern with funding of aged care and health services, retirement income and intergenerational and workforce issues, there has also been an emphasis on promoting and encouraging healthy ageing (Byles et al. 2006:151). It is clear that the proportion of the Australian population aged over 65 years is increasing. It is predicted that in the year

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    Essay Length: 3,686 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Tasha
  • International Trade and European Integration

    International Trade and European Integration

    I. Introduction The Irish economy is one in which, as in Europe in general, industrial activity is unevenly distributed. Some sectors perform - and have developed - better than others. Some have concentrated spatially to a greater extent than others. Yet this uneven development has been the basis for Ireland's recent economic growth. The causes of this unbalanced industrial development include a complex interplay of historical, cultural and institutional factors in addition to traditional comparative

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    Essay Length: 2,721 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Vika
  • Cashew Nut International Trade

    Cashew Nut International Trade

    INTERNATIONAL TRADE Basically, international business can be easily defined as transactions that are devised and carried out across national countries borders, to sastify the objectives of individuals and organizations. There are three types of international business. Firstly, primary types which encompasses imports and exports of goods or services. A good example of this would be “Foreign Direct Investment”. Secondly, the secondary types are those that are “wholly owned subsidiary” and “joint venture”. While others encompasses

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    Essay Length: 966 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Important Issue in Philosophy: What Is Christianity?

    Important Issue in Philosophy: What Is Christianity?

    Important Issue in Philosophy: What is Christianity? Throughout the history of the world there has never been such as an epic movement than Christianity. In the course of the centuries this movement has influenced the cultural development of many nations with spiritual, social and moral values. However despite the great effect this movement has caused on the entire planet, the question remains, what is Christianity? People from the secular world answer that question by saying

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: David