Essays on Cost Of Doing Business

Analysis of Strategic Options and Recommended Action

This report will analyze the strategic positioning of Comcast Corporation, an American based multinational company that offers television, cable TV and Internet services to its consumers, and come up with the best way of making the company as competitive and productive as possible. This paper will focus on the company’s internet service provision branch and analyze how well the company can do in the US market as well as on the global scale when compared to its rivals. The macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects of the company’s operation will be taken into consideration during this process of analysis.

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1.0 History Maersk as a company was established in 1904, and it was in this year that the company was labeled Maersk Group, with the objective of offering shipping services.The company was a beginning of an idea by two people, who included Peter Maersk and his blood son, Peter Moller. Initially, being a family business, the company bought its first five tankers in 1928.Mr. Moller initiated and oversaw the global expansion of Maersk Group into the global markets, with U.S. being its first international subsidiary. Larsen& Mortensen (2011 affirms that, ‘This was followed by penetration into the United Kingdom, ...

Institutions

Question 1 Business bribery has become a global problem to the world economy and efforts to fight it have had numerous obstacles (Adekoya, 2009). Business bribery takes place to enhance business in foreign countries. While this causes an imbalance in business overseas, it also assists businesses to keep up with domestic competition in these foreign countries. Risk assessment is conducted on a regular business to calculate the risk of businesses being asked for bribes in various countries. These issues include whether the official should pay the bribe and if they decide to pay if it should be charged to ...

Executive Summary

Wilsam company ltd is a privately owned company specializing in preparing economic and business reports in Manchester and entire metropolitan regions in England and United Kingdom; Trafford, Stockport, Bolton and Bury just to name a few. The study examined contemporary economic and business strength, weaknesses, threats and opportunities (SWORT analysis) in the region with the aim of helping investors make optimal business decision (Chamberlain 1987, 322). ` The study finding are based on data collected from market research reports, demographic data and governments reports and release. The conclusion made from this analysis; investors can get the highest returns by investing ...

MANAGEMENT OF E-COMMERCE

Management of E-Commerce Introduction The improvement in technology all over the world has led to the adoption of E-Commerce in the businesses. According to Andam (2014), E-Commerce is the use of electronic systems and the internet to facilitate selling and buying of goods and services. Grandon (2004) is of the opinion that the Electronic Commerce started forty years ago but currently through the day to day innovations, many firms and individuals are entering the market through the internet. In the work of Demirel (2011) businesses incorporate the use of Electronic Commerce to offer its goods and services in a ...

Introduction

Culture refers to the values and lifestyle adapted by a society. Culture is the system of shared beliefs, values, norms and expectations that develops within a country or community and governs the behavior of the employees, their approach towards work and interpersonal communications (Hofstede, 1980). For the assignment, the two countries with distinct cultures that are selected are China and US. The paper compare the cultures of these countries and discusses the ways in which cultural differences would affect the cost of doing business in each country.

Analysis of the cultures of these countries

The traditional root of Chinese culture is Confucianism. Confucianism focuses on long term orientation, ...

INTRODUCTION:

Walmart is one of the largest retailers of groceries, pharmaceuticals, medicines, and home entertainment products such as movies, and children action figures. Walmart works on the principle of always providing “lowest possible costs” to the customers. The slogan used by the company since its inception is “Low Costs – Always”. Walmart has been able to live up to its name and has always provided goods at cheaper rate than its competitors and other retailers in the country. Currently, Walmart is present in many countries around the world. Some of the prominent countries where it is present are the USA, the ...

Question One: How the US should deal with China

In the course we had discussed a number of readings that suggest that the US should deal with the rise of China by employing balance-of-power tactics. Other readings argue that the US can manage its relations with China more optimally by making China an equal co-partner in international institutions. I agree with the first perspective which states that the US should deal with the rise of China by employing balance-of-power tactics. The optimal option which aims at making these two countries equal co-partners in international institutions would not work and if attempted would be likely to fail shortly after it ...

MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

INTRODUCTION Gaining competitive advantage by leverage information technology and information systems is a critical concept for organization. Baltzan and Phillips define competitive advantage as a product or service that an organization’s customers value more highly than similar offerings from its competitors’. This implies the products, services and capabilities that an organization has while the competitor’s do not have. Competitive advantage are temporary as competing organizations seeks ways to duplicate the competitive advantage. In order to lead in competition, organizations have to continually develop strategies. This paper describes the procedures in which organizations can analyze, identify, and develop competitive ...

1. Introduction The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act popularly known as Obama Care refers to the Obama administration healthcare reforms. These reforms were enacted in the year 2010 though it is projected that full implementation of Obama care would be achieved in the year 2014. Unlike portrayal by some American leaders, Obama care was a collaborative effort between Republicans and Democrats as they had done so many times in healthcare reforms. Obama care has been the source of a heated public debate in the past two years and especially in run up to the just concluded elections. Proponents of ...

The Democratic Party has proposed a fiscal policy keen to enhance both economic growth and development. The policy advocates for tax cuts and increased government spending on healthcare, education, increased unemployment benefits and infrastructure (OTTERMAN, 2012). They have therefore based their arguments on Keynes economic theory which seeks government to intervene in the economy so as to stimulate aggregate demand, control inflation and increase employment opportunities. The reduction in tax cuts is made to increase disposable income a move which may encourage people to spend. The government increased expenditure in health, education, and infrastructure seeks to make Americans more productive and ...

Introduction

Multinational Corporations are enterprises that manage the production or the delivery of services in more than one country. Multinational Corporations can also be referred to as International Corporations. According to the International Labor Organization, MNCs can be referred to as the Corporations that have their management headquarters in one country and then operate in several other countries. There are several multinational corporations across the world operating in different sectors of the economy. Some Multinational corporations have huge budgets that exceed the GDP of some nations. Big MNCs have powerful influence in the local economies and also play a very important ...

Introduction

The combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and rose to $15.8trillion in 2008(International Monetary Fund estimates) which is impressive when compared to the G.D.Ps of U.S.A and Canada ($ 15.5trillion) and Europe ($ 14.8trillion). This spontaneous exponential growth can be attributed to population dynamics (nearly two third of the world’s population resides in Asia), economic markets and or/socio-political conditions (a fusion of capitalism and socialism/communism) and the work ethic of these Asian cultures among. This paper shall ascertain the role of each of these three major factors in the increased economic growth rate in ...