The Japanese Economy
.... most of their
products and is how they get a trade surplus year after year.
Manufacturing is the most important economic activity in Japan it
accounts for about 28% of itıs GDP. The Japanese people import more than half
of the products that they manufacture from other countries in their crudest form
and manufacture them into transportation equipment, iron, steel, chemicals,
petroleum and coal products and textiles. Most of these products are produced by
large corporations with many employees and the hap .....
|
|
An Investigation Of Japanese Corporate Culture, Its Trends And Changes
.... Style' and can be found in
the Bibliography.
3.0 Findings The Japanese business culture has been described by Beedham as a
culture that acts like a clan, in that there is a large amount of authority
given to the man at the top, and in the commitment that is shown by the people
around him, Beedham points out that this can be evident in the way that their
car factories, investment banks and government ministries are ran.
This clan-like-behaviour has the effect of making decision making painfully .....
|
|
Labor Unions
.... but could be. Working conditions could be
discussed. If workers in the factory have no heat, no lunch breaks or they are
not allowed to speak, (which was the case in many sweatshops for immigrants and
children in the 1920's through 1940's), then the labor unions will obviously
want something done.
These differences are usually settled fairly quickly, and a new contract
featuring these agreements will be realized . Most contracts are in operation
for about 3 to 5 years. Then, negotiations begin agai .....
|
|
Long Swings In The Exchange Rate And The Excess Returns Puzzle: The Role Of Imperfect Knowledge
.... is zero." The obvious suggestion,
based on the model, is that the flow of goods and services is the foundation for
the equilibrating dynamic. Behind the flow of goods and services is the gap
between the gap between, domestic and foreign short-term rates, and the steady
state long-run interest rate gap that sets goods flows to zero. The assumption
is that the prices of the domestic and foreign goods in their respective for-
eign currencies are "incorrect" based on the fundamentals of the respective
.....
|
|
Lucent Technologies
.... officer positions at Cummings Engine Company, INC.7
Lucent Technologies' President and chief operating officer is Richard A.
McGinn. McGinn joined AT&T in 1978. He has previously served as executive vice
president and chief executive officer of AT&T's network group. From 1994 to
1996, McGinn served on the AT&T management executive committee.8
BUSINESS STRUCTURE
Lucent Technologies is composed of four operating units. These four
units are: Business Communication Systems, Consumer Products, Microelec .....
|
|
Monetary/Fiscal Policy
.... major governmental problem is trying to balance the budget. The United
States government is currently in debt $5,262,697,717,000 as of February 7. This
number grows about $10,000 per second(see charts 2,3,and 7). President Clinton,
Chairman Greenspan, and Congress are all working towards a balanced budget by
the year 2002. As many economists explain , the need is for legislation to keep
the budget balanced for years to come and not look for a quick fix to balance
the budget for only a few months to q .....
|
|
Explain And Evaluate Critically Malthus's Population Theory.
.... rates of
population growth, thus revealing net reproductive growth. Malthus observed
that under such ideal conditions, during each 25 years the human population
tends to double. So if world population is represented by 1, then after each 25
years it would be 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and so on, provided there were no limits on
such "natural" rates of population increase.
Food. To learn how fast people might produce food, Malthus examined
agriculture in several countries, and made a rough estimate: .....
|
|
BHP Revitalizes Its Global Management
.... more than one divisional group.
An example of this is BHP Power, which develops power stations using the most
appropriate energy source for the circumstances. Power is an independent group,
drawing on the skills of the Mining and Petroleum divisions where necessary.
The company is looking at other possible new businesses, that are natural
developments of the company's existing businesses, in the same way Power has
evolved from Petroleum and Mining. One of these is Manufacturing, using the
skills de .....
|
|
Managing The Transition From Maturity To Decline: Diamond Power Corporation
.... continued working,
basically stayed the same up until the addition of competition into the market.
At this point, Diamond had to revise its mission to include technological
advances to stay ahead of it main competitor, Copes-Vulcan. With the passage of
time, production efficiency and technology were not enough. Diamond eventually
had to add foreign sales, customer service, and replacement part production to
its original plan to keep ahead of the game. By the 1970's, the mission to
supply replacement par .....
|
|
The Question Of Whether Or Not Marketing Is Completely Unethical
.... person. There are no clear cut guidelines for
marketing manager's to go by, so they must utilize their own judgement based on
their own moral standards. But, in the United States their is an administrative
agency that has the power to control unfair or deceptive business practices.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was created in 1914 to prevent "unfair
methods of competition in commerce (commercial trade) and unfair or deceptive
acts or practices in commerce (Miller 590)". The FTC issues guidelines t .....
|
|
Marketing Project
.... the anxieties, relieving the pressures of ignorance.
Target Market
A geographic approach for my business would be the most feasible. I'm
concerned with anyone that now owns, plans to own, or is reluctant to own
because of their fear due to lack of knowledge. As a test area, I would keep my
business in the immediate vicinity. The Battle Creek/Kalamazoo area would be my
start up point. Although computer sales have increased considerably due to the
drastic drop in prices and at the same tim .....
|
|
Skittles
.... concept to the Districts restaurant
industry. What we provide is an everchanging mix of live entertainment to
customers while serving all of their drinking and dining needs as well. We are
somewhat of a one stop, night on the town, in that we provide not only the
drinking and dining needs of person going out but we also provide, in the same
location and depending on the night, everything from dancing to live music
performances to a night of comedy entertainment. Because of its uniqueness to
the marketpla .....
|
|
Karl Marx's Estranged Labor
.... this paper is to view Marx's concept of alienation
(estranged labor) and how it limits freedom. For Marx man's freedom is
relinquished or in fact wrested from his true nature once he becomes a laborer.
This process is thoroughly explained throughout Estranged Labor. This study will
reveal this process and argue it's validity. Appendant to this study on
alienation there will be a micro-study which will attempt to ascertain Marx's
view of freedom (i.e. positive or negative). The study on alienation in
conj .....
|
|
Milton Friedman
.... This means there is a circular flow of money in the economy,
as my spending becomes part of your earnings, and your spending becomes part of
my earnings. Suppose something happens to alter consumers confidence in the
economy. Worried consumers may then try to weather the coming economic hardship
by saving their money, but because my spending is part of your earnings, my
decision to hoard money makes things worse for you and you, responding to your
own difficult times, will start hoarding money too, m .....
|
|
Minimum Wage Legislation
.... will continue to find themselves handicapped in
the job market as long as the minimum wage legislation remains in affect. In
society today the demand for "unskilled" workers is low and the supply is high,
therefore there is a surplus of unskilled workers in the job market. The effect
of a surplus drives down an individuals reservation wage, as they are willing to
do and take anything for work. Minimum wage only makes this fact more severe, as
it increases the supply of workers.
Minimum wage increases the .....
|
|
|
|
