Middle East Case Studies Samples For Students

Intelligence Failure: The Iraq War

Introduction
Failure in a country’s Intelligence system often leads to devastating outcomes. The Americans and the British experienced Intelligence failure concerning the issue of Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). This failure came up in diverse forms that would have made it difficult to realize that there was a problem within the Intelligence system. Even so, several lessons were learnt from the intelligence failure thus prompting the US government to make certain changes that would be beneficial to the country in the long run.

According to Mockaitis (2012), the intelligence shortcomings mainly arose from the fact that there ...

Ahmed Qassim is a Saudi Arabian citizen who is nearing completion of his four-year engineering course at one of the major universities in the United States of America. Since he is on the verge of completing his course, Ahmed has begun to think about his future after university. He is considering going back to his home country to pursue a career in engineering. However, he is also considering a career in photography. He has a real interest and talent for photography. Ahmed has issues in choosing between a career in photography and, a career in traditional engineering.

Analysis and Evaluation

Ahmed currently resides in the United States. He ...

Mark’s Total Cholesterol is below 186mg/dl and that is good, as it is under the 200 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) or less that is a desirable level. His HDL cholesterol that protects against heart disease is 45mg/dL under the 60 mg/dL considered optimal but above the 40 mg/dL considered low. However, it is close and he needs counseling to raise it. His LDL cholesterol of 119mg/dL is within the near optimal range of 100 to 129 mg/dL This LDL level is higher than the American mean level of 115 md/dL and Mark should work to reduce it. His Triglycerides ...

Introduction:

This paper is about a particular object in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. I have chosen the item known as ‘Glazed Fritware Bottle’ from Iznik in Turkey dating from the 16th Century and pertaining to the Ottoman Empire. The paper will attempt to analyse the object in detail with regards to its form, line, shape, color, texture, mass and composition and will also provide a detailed artistic appraisal of the object. The Glazed Fritware Bottle carries catalogue number: Lns 327C and is part of the famed Al Sabah Collection of Kuwait, which is on permanent exhibition at the museum. There ...

Immediately after the September 11th attacks on the United States Soil, the U. S government responded by going to Iraq and taking the war to the terrorists. The U. S troops set foot in Iraq in the year 2012. The Abu Ghraib prison camp was established in the year 2003 in the province of Abu Ghraib. This detention camp was used to hold Iraqi civilians who were captured during the war hence, sort of a prison. The detention camp was situated 28miles west of Baghdad which was the capital city of Iraq. It was located on a 280 acres piece of ...

Executive summary

Headquartered in Calgary, Canada Talisman Energy develops, produces and markets petroleum and natural gas globally. Being one Canada largest independent oil and gas company, its existence commenced in 1992 after British Petroleum (now BP) sold its subsidiary in Canada. Talisman Energy primary regions of operation were mainly in North America, North Sea, and South East Asia. The company achieved a phenomenal growth rate due to several key mergers and acquisitions that are apparent in its large and diverse number of holdings. In 2008, Talisman Energy listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The ...

Synopsis of the Company

The proposed company is a hotel booking business with headquarters located in Kuwait. The owners of the business would establish a small office (local agent) to serve as a home-base for crucial personnel: administration, human resources, information technology, finance and accounting. Majority of the operations would be undertaken online through designing an official website and data-base that would generate booking transactions. As such, the company is projected to earn through commissions from affiliate hotels for every booking or reservation completed.
The mission of the company is to serve travelling clients with hotel accommodations through making reservations online. Since most of contemporary ...

CMN598 Rhetoric of Social Issues

12-05-2014
Abstract
Advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and digital media have led to transformations in the way humans communicate and interact. One of the latest waves of the new media is a social media tool that have “introduced new communication patterns, created new forms of expression and stimulated wide civic participation” (Bardici, 2012). In the recent past, social media platforms have become important in driving social change. A case in point is the Arab Spring. In Egypt, for instance, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were instrumental in fuelling the revolt that led ...

In Turkey there are already a lot of Starbucks stores in such a big cities as Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya etc. However, this country still remains to be very promising location to develop Starbucks business and especially Starbucks Entertainment. The point is that Turkey has its strong coffee traditions and at the same time it has a very rich cultural identity that differs a lot from other countries in Europe as well as from Asian countries. That is why I suggest that it is reasonable to concentrate Starbucks Entertainment strategy on coffee stuff and souvenirs that will highlight Turkish coffee culture and traditions.
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Earthquakes may have varied effects on the ways in which they affect the human settlement and activities that are conducted on a daily basis. The natural disasters that result from the geographical activities of earthquakes affect the settlement patterns and the human activities that might be of use when it comes to earning a daily life. Earthquakes have adverse effects on the housing and settlement of people. They are forced to change the way they were initially structured which makes it difficult to cope with the new ways of life. They are also driven into hard economic situations where they have ...

Think, Pair, Share and One 1000 Word Case Study Research and Opinion Essay (25%): Each team will research, discuss and debate a solution to the Case Study.

Introduction

The state of Jerusalem has had many problems and conflicts over who owns the state from both the Israelis and the Arab states. The area is considered to be a holy ground for the Israelis as well as the Muslims where there is the Al Aqsa mosque. The conflicts have existed since the ancient times and continue to be a problem in the modern world. There have been major wars that have occurred that ...

Introduction

The conflict in Syria has raged on for over three years now with the various warring parties actively sustaining it. It began in early 2011 as a part of the series of demonstrations dubbed as the Arab Spring witnessed globally in a number of Arabic countries. The protests were aimed at the Bashar al-Assad led government that was dubbed as tyrant and retrogressive. After various crackdowns, these demonstrations evolved to deadly armed rebellions (Cole, 2013). The armed conflict pitted various opposition groups namely; Free Syrian Army and the Islamic Front against the Syrian government and its allies such as Hezbollah. The ...

Introduction

Aeolian processes occur in environments such as deserts, agricultural fields, and coastal regions. The features of such environments include a nonexistent or sparse vegetation cover, strong winds, and a supply of fine sediments. In Egypt, the increase in human population has led to the lateral spread of human settlements from the Nile’s flood plains to various locations in the western desert land. Such areas include the Kharga Oasis, where the government has initiated land reclamation projects for agriculture and human settlements. However, the developmental plans have missed the issue of natural hazards such as dune movements. Hence, the success of such ...

Despite displaying the features of an emerging economy and creating a perception that things are improving in the year 2008, a closer look at Egypt reveals otherwise with major economic and political problems hidden underneath. One of the long-term issues was inflation which was relatively high. As the worldwide economic meltdown took the center state in year 2008-2009, the country saw many of their economic drivers slowdown. Tourism one of the drivers in the country economy fell sharply as the economic crisis continued. Also, the Egypt’s working expatriates remittances dropped as the as construction in the gulf region stalled. Earning ...

Introduction

Roberto is one of the numerous victims of a mix of solutions. That is; he is characterized by different beliefs and thoughts which are directed by the different environmental factors engulfing him. Initially, he has a position of being a National Guard after recent calls for the deployment back in Iraq. He is a victim of factors that could either discourage or encourage someone in his or her career. However, this depends on the different avenues and angles from which the issues can be elaborated.
Initially, Roberto could have been motivated to work with the military. The reason behind this could not ...

Business

1. What are the underlying forces that led to K&S’s desire to make changes to its current supply chain network?
Cheap labor and raw materials were the defining forces that led to K&S’s move to Singapore. Even though Israel site held 50% of the worldwide market share of bonding tools, the shift in the electronic manufacturing industry to Asia and other Pacific Rim countries meant that K&S would enhance their business and profitability of they also moved a part of their operations to that region. There is a definite shift in the way businesses are conducted by Small ...

Introduction

Family businesses are an important part of economic development and prosperity. Many people have established family enterprises in order to experience economic growth. However, the management of family businesses is not easy. Businesses owned by members who share family relations are very challenging to manage. Apart from the business issues that arise from time to time, there are family issues as well. Some of the most striking challenges in running family businesses include succession disputes, family conflicts, gender disputes in the management position, financial weaknesses, mismanagement, work relationship among others (Davis). It is important to keep i9n mind that ...

The Islamist militant group AQAP, better known in full as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, came into formation on January 2009. This group was formed through a unification of Yemeni and Saudi branches of the larger al-Qaeda. Analysts have consistently rated the Yemen group as the most lethal among the al-Qaeda authorization, which primarily has taken the objective of setting targets in the West while at the same time maintaining domestic insurgency (Johnson, 2012). AQAP’s tremendous rise in Yemen resulted majorly from the free environment in this country that allowed former al Qaeda network trained experts to operate.
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Notably both Shambayati (2008) and Arjomand (2013) recognize the instability of Muslim countries that have embraced a different type of leadership throughout the years. While most Asian countries whose citizens mostly that practice Muslim religion choose to stick with the sharia law, others have embraced the western type of democratic leaderships. Some of these countries include Indonesia, turkey, Iran, Egypt, and Tunisia among others. While these countries have worked to achieve an amiable balance between the western democracy and the traditional sharia law, they all face numerous challenges causing instability in the smooth running of these governments. These two articles ...

Did Qatar bribe FIFA officials to obtain the 2022 World Cup bid?
The process of bidding for the 2022 and the 2018 FIFA world cup involved making a decision on the venues for the staging of the 2022 and 2018 World Cup events. The bidding process commenced on March year 2009. A total of eleven bids from thirteen nations was received by the executive committee of FIFA. One of the bids was rejected and another one withdrawn. During the bidding process, bids for the 2022 came from Qatar, Japan, United States, South Korea and Australia. The process of bidding ...

Working in the medical field, it is a given that the patients seen will come from a variety of cultural backgrounds, each with a set of norms or accepted standards, religious beliefs, and traditions which they base their lives around. Some of culture-specific challenges that physicians-in-training may encounter can be easy to work with, while the traditions and beliefs held by patients may pose an ethical concern due to the extreme nature some cultures may appear to a physician and other medical personnel who are not familiar with specific cultural aspects. Although course work and exposure to a variety of cultures may help to ...

Introduction

A woman in Palestine has a major role in her society, which is being part of the formation of the family. The formation of the family has different units, nuclear, transitional, or hamula or the extended family. Hamula or the extended family is the most common family formation in the Palestinian community. The tradition and teachings of the Quran have significant influences for the rights of women in Palestine. Hanan Riyan Bakri, a counselor of Women’s Social and Legal Center based in East Jerusalem traveled throughout the Occupied Territories to lecture Palestinian women about their rights . Generally, parents who are ...

Strategic Management II

Business world is very challenging and trick. Thus, it becomes indispensable for companies to comprehend the corresponding business environment, its strong and weak aspects conjoined with opportunities and threats in the setting. If the leaders of an organization are well-versed with it, there is not any question left behind regarding the prosperity and success of the company. This analysis and evaluation of the business environment is termed as ‘Strategic Management’. The complete procedure of strategic management consists of formulation and implementation of effectual strategies in response to the ongoing business transformations, assessment of power and flaws of the organization and ...

- In the changing and increased competition that defines the current business world, entrepreneurs and executives alike need to carefully analyze what strategy that best suit their business profile: structuralist or reconstructionist. Basically, this is the main idea of the article “How Strategy Shapes Structure”, written by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.
The article starts by defining and explaining each strategy. It shows that the structuralist strategy is the classic approach to business, employed by most companies that intend to either differentiate or set low prices. The companies that apply this strategy adapt their strategy to the ...

The study conducted by Al Ansari and al Khadher (2011) formulated a list consisting of 42 leadership competencies needed for library and information professionals necessary for their vocational success. Of these competencies, 141 library managers rated the most important competencies. These were then translated into a leadership model by the authors.
In order to create the competency model, the authors identified various leadership competencies mentioned in the literature, while taking into consideration skills already indicated as essential for Kuwaiti leaders. The final list consisted of 42 competencies, grouped into six categories, as follows: managerial effectiveness- referring to traits reflected as a ...

Management

Lubna Olayan
Lubna Olayan is one of the most influential women in the Middle East region. She is the Chief Executive Officer and Principal of the Olayan Financial Company. Olayan Financial Company was incorporated in the year 1947 by Sulaiman S. Olayan. He is survived by a son and three daughters and they are a part of the board of directors of Olayan Financial Company which is the holding body for Olayan Group’s business enterprise spreading across the Middle East and Saudi Arabia.
The Olayan Group is a significant global investor and has diversified business operations across Middle East. ...

1.0 Introduction
The battle of the Chosin reservoir is also known as Changjin, a campaign that was developed in the early times during the Korean War in 1950s. It was aimed at driving the United Nations out from the North Korea. The first campaign was supposed to drive out the X corps out of the Eastern North Korea during the severe winter weather; they called it the 1st Marine Division. This campaign at last succeeded in removing the X corps but the people of china did not achieve the objective of isolating and destroying the 1st Division, but instead ...

Introduction

Agility Logsitcs is a global logistics company. Its headquarter is situated in Kuwait. It was founded in 1979. The current Chairman and Managing Director is Tarek Abdulaziz and the president of the company is Essa Al-Saleh. The logistics company is one of the leading companies of the world. It started off its operations from Kuwait but now it has spread its wings, encompassing the entire globe. The company has a frieght forwarding business, transportation, warehouse, and supply chain management business. The main revenue gaining aspect of this business venture is the frieght forwarding. The company has more than 22,000 employees, ...

Lebanon is in need of Foreign Direct Investment given the economic instability the country has been experiencing due to recurrent civil wars. From the publication, the country experienced impressive economic growth between 1975 and 1990 before the civil war. All economic structures and significant infrastructure of the country were shuttered when Lebanon plunged into a civil war. Again, in 2006, the country experienced another war that lasted for one month causing another severe damage to the economy that was on the verge of recovering. FDI would be the best option for this country given its unpredictability. FDI would enable companies ...

The Control Room is a really irresistible documentary of interest that features a very exceptional as well as rare view into the manner in which the international communities perceive the war at Iraq. The documentary was produced in the year 2004 to covers Al Jazeera and its associations with the United States Central Command. It also covers other news groups that also covered the war at Iraq. The documentary film was the work of an Egyptian-American filmmaker known as Jehane Noujaim. Among those in the video are; Lieutenant Josh Rushing, the officer in charge of the media dealings at the US ...

ABSTRACT

This study tries to evaluate the tenure of Paul Bremer as the governor of Iraq and as the US envoy in Iraq between May 2003 and June 2004. During this tenure, Bremer was the leader of Coalition Provisional Authority which was the recognized leadership by the United Nations in Iraq. This study evaluates the critical decisions which were made by Bremer whether right or wrong and gives its own opinions on the way the decisions would have been made. The study also evaluates the leadership provided by Bremer on the critical issues on the governance of Iraq. The paper ...

For quiet a long time, the city of Jerusalem has been the center of interest for many nations. Many people and religions put claim on the city based on the religious backgrounds associated with it. Eventually, the conflicts of interest concerning the city have spilt into chaos. The main contention at the moment lies between the Palestine and Israel, where both claim ownership to the land. This has brought about much friction between them and they try al means possible to make sure that they have the final ownership. Israel has even gone as far as to claim that its ...

Kuwait is an Arab state found at the northwestern region of the Arabian Gulf. The sovereign state covers an area of 17,818 square kilometers and is bordered by the Arabian Gulf to the east, on the north and west by Iraq, and by Saudi Arabia to the south. The 2008 Index of economic freedom ranks Kuwait as the second-most free economy in the entire Middle East. The nation has a well-developed banking system with several banks dating back before oil discovery. The nation holds 10% of the world’s reserves that translate to 104 billion barrels (Crystal, 1992).
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Company’s Growth and History

Oman Air, the Sultanate of Oman’s flag carrier is based in Muscat. It mainly operates in the Seeb International Airport in Muscat. It operates international air services, scheduled domestic flights, charter work and local air taxi. Although it was founded in 1981, the company began operations in 1993. It started under the name Oman Aviation Services after a merger between Oman International Services and Gulf Air Light Aircraft. The company’s inaugural flight was from Muscat to Salalah with its international services starting in July of 1993.
The company is partially owned by the government with an initial ...

Introduction

Egypt is one of the major countries in the North Africa and the Middle East. The country has the biggest population in its region; it represents 25% of the total population in Arab population with more than 82 million inhabitants (Tignor, 2011). The majority of the population falls in the bracket of 15-25 years. Egypt enjoys a significant cultural, political and economical influence in the Arab region serving as a trendsetter to the many countries in Middle East. Egypt has affirmed that foreign private capital is welcomed and that foreign investors in the country are therefore welcomed to invest in the ...

Efficient decision-making processes right at the core of government are extremely necessary for a leaner and well-operating public sector. However, many factors such as conflicting lines of authority, poor managerial skills, lack of evidence and analysis, poor central coordination and ongoing conflicts for resources destroy the government’s potential to define and execute policy- that has evident effect on the remaining public sector.
Change management and Leadership skills are a prerequisite for enabling organizations to provide effective performance, particularly public sector organizations. It is mandatory for public organizations to deliver results according to their mandates and growing expectations of the ...

If Terim goes Through Romania, he will have to encounter the following charges:

• Suez canal charges
• Handling fees at Liman
• Charges for generating false documents

The total costs approach refers to estimates regarding financials. It helps managers have a precise estimate of the direct and indirect costs a product will inflict on their business. It goes beyond the cost of the product but also looks at other forms of costs. It takes into consideration operation costs and capital for effective decision making. The common costs under scrutiny include shipping costs, tax levied and reshipping costs. It also considers incentives for using ...

Chapter 10: What is the ethics behind our ideologies?

The case study on Chapter 10 questions an individual responsibility on the pretext of business to what it might bring in terms of political and military interest overseas. Mr. Dan was acting carefully in exporting non military products to Turkey. He has just been appointed as the new export manager and he was wary about Aishagu Import-Export Trading Company, a Turkish company. It surprised him that the owner of this Turkish company happened to be a college classmate and dorm mate, Mr. Mustafa. He suddenly remembered the political intent of this guy and wondered if the exports are being used to ...

Leaders are essentially charged with the responsibility of overseeing the operations of affairs at certain designations. This means that whatever takes place within the field of supervision assigned to a certain leader reflects directly on the respective leader. This point is especially significant for students and practitioners alike within public service where implications of people’s actions have far-reaching effects. A case in point is that of legislators and policymakers within government.
These people are charged with establishing frameworks within which the socio-economic status of citizens can be enhanced. To achieve this requires the collaborative efforts of a large number ...

In the third and final presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney in the race for presidency, the two candidates brought each other to task on the issue of foreign affairs. The main areas of interest were the policy on Iraq and Afghanistan, the reaction to the Arab spring and the nuclear weapon development in Iran.

On the issue of Iraq, the president argued that Romney’s policy was quite weak. He argued that Romney’s policies were inconsistent as well as muddled. In clearing up the maters on his side, he argued that he would still ensure ...

Current Situation

The nuclear program of Iran is currently the world’s most polarizing issue. While European and American have a believe that Tehran have a plan of building nuclear weapons, the leadership of Iran argues that the sole aim of developing the nuclear program is simply to generate electricity without dipping into the oil supply that is meant to be sold abroad and offer fuel to the country’s medical reactors. A report by international nuclear inspectors shows that Iran has already put in place three quarters of its nuclear centrifuges that is needed for completing deep underground site meant for producing ...

Jerry Useem’s article addresses the issue on how factors such as government policy and culture affect business. David Rosen is an experienced and aggressive middle manager of an American Entertainment Company, who has successfully ventured in parts that others have failed such as Nigeria and Uganda. In 1933, Rosen decided to pursue the highly controlled Turkish market, where only state controlled TRT ran the television industry. The returns from this venture were very low at $500000 dollars a year since TRT purchased limited amounts of non-controversial programs and selected few programs that they saw as suitable for Turkish standards ...

Why is white collar crime still prevalent?

White collar crimes refer to crimes that are financially motivated, as well as diplomatic crimes, which are committed for unlawful monetary gain (Israel, 2009). Several experts who carry out white collar crimes are never exposed. The individuals that get caught can face federal or state charges plus felony penalties (Kelly, 2002). White collar crimes are still prevalent in the United States since ordinary white collar cases are still prevalent in the country.

These cases include: bribery, fraud, stock manipulation, securities fraud, embezzlement, computer fraud, Medicaid fraud, extortion, hedge fund fraud, as well as a mortgage broker fraud among others. The ...

Saudi Arabia and Australia:

A Linguistic Approach

Male and Female Workplace Interactions in Saudi Arabia and Australia: A Linguistic Approach

When a person talks about language, it is generally referred to as a mode of communication between people. However, different cultures and countries have languages that are vastly different from each other. If these societies spoke only their own local languages, communication would have become very difficult as people, even from different states from within a country in some cases, simply would not understand each other. This is where having a common language becomes a convenient mode of understanding, conserving individual social identity while promoting stronger social bonds ...

Swisse Credit surveyed consumers in eight countries including Saudi Arabia to find out more about emerging markets.1 Saudi Arabia consumers seem quite optimistic. Saudi Arabia was the number one country in terms of purchasing smart phones for the year. Credit Swiss suggests that “higher income markets were key drivers of the rise in ownership of smart phones.2 Saudi Arabia was the only country which showed a “rise in wage expectations;” 37 percent of those surveyed responded that within the next six months they expect to see their finances improve.3 Also 25 percent thought this is “the opportune time to make a ...

FIRST MODERN MUSLIM WRITERS

At the last part of the 19th century, a very influential but small group of Muslim thinkers and writers emerged and became the figures of Islamic modernism. Muhammad Iqbal, who also later made an important mark in the modernism of Pakistan, noted that Islamic philosophy has inspired European thoughts yet "Ismaic relisious thorughs have became stagnant.” (Geering, 2003) Other Muslim thinkers also thought about their religion being absoerbed and further developed by the greater scientific and modern infleunces of western thoughts. Hence, religion became a more central facet of modern social and political thoughts.
The following writers are ilustration of ...

PERSONAL FINANCE INVESTMENT IN QATAR: INVESTING QR 1000000

Abstract
This article describes a personal finance project which entails the investment of QR 1000000 in a short time frame, from 1 March to 27 May 2016. We first define personal finance and establish the five steps of a personal financial planning process, which entails: (1) assessment of the individual’s financial situation; (2) determination of the individual’s financial goals; (3) creation and details of the financial plan, based upon the determined goals; (4) execution of the aforementioned plan; (5) monitoring and reassessment of the plan. For each one of the five stages, we carry out the required ...

Question 1: Arabic Perfume Unique Selling Propositions and Position Strategy in the Global Market

Pursuit defines unique selling propositions as an act that sets a business to stand out uniquely because of what it produces in the market. In most cases, companies make mistakes of wanting to be known for everything as soon as they enter the market. One of the Arabic Perfume propositions is that their fragrance produces are descent and anchored in the local’s culture, and traditions and consumers use it a lot, and the businesses have a tradition of gifting the fragrance. For this reason, a Middle Eastern customer can buy several units of same scent perfumes (Elizabeth Arden ...

There is a keen interest in the influence of the Internet in the recent years in the Arab World. A particular interest is the impact of Social Media and communication technologies in the Arab World leading to the conflict that began in 2011. However, this paper will focus not on political uses of the Internet, but on the potential economic growth, and how the Internet affects the culture and changes habits of communication, shopping and ways of doing businesses.

The Internet in the Arab World

The whole world has been transformed over the past 15 years by the technology-led transformation. The Internet affected communication and ...

1. Introduction
Oman Oil Company (OCC) is one of the biggest commercial organizations of Oman, undertaken by the Government of the country. The company was set up in 1966, headquartered in Muscat, Oman (Oman-oil.com, 2016). Pursuing the investment opportunities in oil and gas and other energy sectors, Oman Oil Company has become one of the leading companies of Sultanate of Oman. Identifying the investment opportunities both inside and outside the country, the company has developed an impressive HRM to manage the organizational operations affirmatively. The HRM of the organization supports the employees to deliver their best performance for organizational ...

UAE Specific Trade Agreements

The UAE has become a very ineresting trading zone in the world. In order to ensure that there is peaceful and fair business practices, the UAE has employed the use of Trade agreements. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is the first one. Its main goal was to build on achievements made as well as make stronger the ties among its participant countries which further sort to harmonize their economic, financial, monetary policies, their commercial and industrial legislation and custom laws (Dubaided, 2016). It is applicable to the following trade zones; Bahrain; Kuwait; Oman; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; UAE.
Greater Arab ...

Management

The Problem Discussed in the Article
The problem, that is discussed in the research paper “Leadership styles of men and women in the Arab world” by the specialist Zahi Yaseen is quite actual till our days. The author chose the United Arab Emirates for the investigation. Men were traditionally dominated in the majority of issues in Arab countries. In this case, the place of women and their rights in society were limited. The woman’s struggle for equal rights for women and men took place in the most of the Arab countries for a long time. It impacts on ...

In the aftermath of the 2008/2009 global financial crisis, the economy of Cyprus was at the bleak of collapsing due to the imminent threat of collapsing banking system. The country had three major banks and two of them, which include Laiki and the Bank of Cyprus, were on the verge of collapsing. Cyprus was only a few years of being a member of the EU considering that it had joined the EU in 2008 (Nandita & Biswal, 2013). At the height of the crisis, the country hoped that the EU would come to its rescue, but this call came with ...

The History of CSR in China before CSR Law

Corporate Social Responsibility has attracted the attention of businesses and governments throughout the globe in recent times. Perhaps, it is imperative to note that the concept of CSR was invented in the United States, and it spread to the rest of the world as a result of world. China is among the leading countries in developing policies to deal with this issue. This history of CSR in China is associated with the emergence of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the country as early as from 1970s, following the economic reforms of the country (USA China Law Group, 2013). Prior to the ...

Introduction

Economics describes markets depending on the factors that define their competitive nature. In that respect, factors like the number of firms, their market share, market power, pricing strategies as being price leaders or price searchers as well as the ease and barriers to market entry. Therefore, markets are defined into categories of monopolistic, competitive and oligopolistic and have differences in their pricing and output decisions hence different effects and implication on the national economy. In that respect, governments tend to exercise appropriate regulation on the markets in order to achieve national objectives. In this consideration, this analysis seeks to ...

The Company: Al-Zulfi Group in Qatar

Issue: Reservations about hiring women
Expansion plan: Due to market saturation coupled with growing competition in India, SSSL aims to target international geographic segments with excellent demand for security system products (Zain, 2017).
Partnership: SSSL proposes a partnership to Al-Zulfi Group because it is legally bound (as per foreign investment laws in Qatar) to partner with a local company with 51% share to be held by the local company to expand to Qatar (Zain, 2017).
Conflict: Samir Singh, the CEO at SSSL wants Seema Saran to lead the project in Qatar, while Zulfi Khan, the Director of Al-Zulfi Group ...

There are various trade barriers in the food retail industry in the United Arab Emirates. Most of these trade barriers are usually directed to the foreign multinational companies trying to enter the market. The first barrier is the food standards set by the United Arab Emirates. In the year 2008, UAE joined the gulf standards, which is an organization that develops the various food standards (Anderson et al., 2010). The organizations set standards and rules relating to labelling standards and shelf life. These regulations are normally made possible through the various committees such as the organic food and biotechnology ...

1. What do you think were the chief factors involved in Mercedes’ decision.

Answer:

The FDI is the abbreviation of the Foreign Direct Investments. It is defined as the person who is the resident of one country and is investing in another country as the foreign investor. The person has the control over the ownership of the business in other country. The investment can be done in the form of the securities, bonds and stocks of the foreign country. The person can have the control over the buildings, technology, investments, profits, etc. of the foreign country. FDI can also be ...

The Arab Spring has been going on for the last two years. While the peaceful protest that started in Tunisia was over in the country after about 3 months, it took Libya about 6 months to finally stampede over the authoritative regime of Kaddafi. Kaddafi’s fall however, did not actualize the desires of a liberal and progressive democracy. Libya’s revolution backfired as the absence of a central authority led to civil unrest and the rise of extremists’ movements. In Egypt, the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 was seen as the culmination of freedom and the triumph of democracy ...

IEG 330: Supply Chain & Logistics Engineering

Section: F2
Summer 2016

Abstract 3

Introduction 4
Objectives of the Project4
Literature Review4-5
Description of the Collecting Data Process5-6
Description of the Collected Data6-7
Mapping the Supply Chain Network of the Company8
Performance Measurement8-11
Tools, Techniques and Approach to follow11-12
Challenges Expected12
Conclusion12
Gantt Chart13
Reference14
Abstract
This report presents an analysis of Kuwait indo Trading Company’s (KITCO) supply chain. Supply chain analysis and management is an imperative aspect for the business. This is mainly the results obtained help improve the bottom line of all members of the supply chain (manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, and retailers). The improvement results from ...