Essays on Adopter

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Introduction

U.S. schools are known for low performance on international tests which measure 15-year-old students’ literacy in science, math, and reading. According to the 2007 report, the United States ranked 29th in science among 57 countries participating in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Gonzalez and Kuenzi, 2012, p. 9; McFarlane, 2013, p. 39). The problems with school attainment were linked with students’ reduced interest in science and instructional approaches to science teaching (McFarlane, 2013, p. 39). In this regard the gaps highlighted administrators’ ineffective practices and teachers’ quality problem, which was ...

Introduction

The case study dwells upon the implementation of the Sustainable initiative and "Green Thinking" in the Spectrum Sunglass Company, working with direct consumers as well as retail sector distributors. My role was to develop, get the buy-in from the critical mass of stakeholders and implement the initiative to develop a special "green" product for our largest retail chain Bigmart, responsible for 30% of the annual revenue of the company. As the Director of Product Innovation within Research and Development (R&D), I am a strong believer that "green thinking and product" is the future of the forward-thinking companies and is ...

1. Background Corporate governance codes are rules and practices that are put up to control and regulate company activities. The general backbone of the idea of management or leadership system is to balance the interests of the many stakeholders of a company. Banks operate within the set guidelines and regulations in the country. The "weak adopter" is when a country has four entries of corporate guidelines. A "strong adopter” is when a country with more than four entries. The research show or aims at quantifying connection or relationship of the bank’s risk and the current adoption policy of ...

Executive Summary

Mission Statement Situation Analysis General Electric (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate corporation founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1878 and is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. It serves diverse industries such as aviation, consumer electronics, electrical distribution, energy, finance, and healthcare, among others. The company has operations in major markets in more than 100 countries across the world (www.ge.com). In 2015, GE ranked among the Fortune 500 as the 8th-largest firm in the U.S. by gross revenue, and the 21st most profitable company (www.fortune.com & forbes.com, 2015). As of 2016 the company was listed the ninth-largest in the world among ...

Cutting Edge technologies used by Corporations

An example of innovative technology being used by corporations includes Cisco systems. This technology has low power consumption, recycling efforts, switching tools and green power supplies. Cisco’s networking equipment is the backbone of the Internet and most private networks (Shelly and Vermaat, 2010). Additionally, corporations are employing the use of geographical information systems as another innovative technology. With geographical information system (GIS), corporations can be able to perform certain activities such as disaster management, simulation and modeling, environmental management, watershed management, homeland security, GIS based support systems, global positioning systems and remote sensing. Organizations are also employing innovative ...

Roger’s diffusion theory

Rogers, E. M. Diffusion of Innovation (5th Edition ed.). Simon and Schuster.

This source explains about diffusion of innovation theory. Diffusion of Innovation Theory was historically discussed in the year 1903 by Gabriel Tarde who was a French sociologist who drew the first S-shaped curves of diffusion then later Gross and Ryan in the year 1943 introduced adopter groups that are being used in the present theory which Everett Rogers had popularized. In the 1957, Katz introduced the idea of opinion followers and opinion leaders and how the media is involved in the interaction of the two groups. The source ...