Essays on Needham

Part 1

With the rise of globalization, many firms have ventured into internationalization because of the wide playing field and the quest for bigger profit. There are many challenges to international expansion and firms have experienced advantages and disadvantages in their entry to new markets. Research has shown that international expansion influences organizational performance through economies of scale, exploitation of local endowments, knowledge sharing, and other mechanisms. However, there were studies that concluded a positive relationship between international expansion and corporate performance (Delios & Beamish; Goerzen & Beamish as cited in Jiang, 2010). Moreover, a few research focused on the effect of corporate ...

Needham (2010) states that Cassandra was gifted, since she was able to provide accurate articulation of dangers that were prone to happen. Sadly, no one took her warnings seriously. Nowadays, Cassandra case can be applied in a vast range of managerial settings, thus, in this regard, project management is the umbrella term. The identification of an unrecognized danger should always result in timely and effective actions. Stakeholder-oriented management is likely to be effective, once stakeholder’s interests all along different stages are taken into account. As the conflict minimization technique, Cassandra case is handy. It helps to identify potential ...

Chapter #16:

Question 1. Insect-eating birds will decrease in number since their source of food has been reduced. The birds may also migrate to warmer areas during this period.

Question 2.

The habitat is the specific place where the organism lives e.g. a fish’s habitat is water. On the other hand, niche is the position and the role played by the organism in an ecosystem. It includes how the organism obtain food and shelter, the mode of survival, and the mode of reproduction (Sutton & Anderson, 2009, p. 46). For instance, a lion’s niche in the ecosystem is that of a predator.Question ...