Essays on Producers

The average American requires a yearly movement of 57 tons of cargo to cater for all of their activities. In 2016, the freight transportation system handled nearly 16 billion tons of raw materials and consumer goods. All this movement is vital in supporting economic activities around the country. All the shipments including fresh produce, express packages among others require an extensive system comprising millions of vehicles supported by sophisticated information technology and managed by a big labor force. The USA is the largest consumer market in the world thus a need for a robust system to oversee the movement ...

Education is the process through which acquiring knowledge, skills, and beliefs are facilitated. Education takes place under the guidance of an educator through methods such as training, teaching discussion and research. Learners advance through various levels from kindergarten to college. Everyone has a right to acquire education. Higher education is a voluntary stage of higher learning progress from the secondary education. Most of the students do not like joining the institution of higher education after finishing the basic education. Higher learning is an important tool for competition in white collar jobs. In America, higher education is not compulsory, and ...

Introduction

Compensation and benefit system is a division of the human resource management that is aimed at making policies concerning workers’ benefits. Compensation benefits can be referred as all the benefits that employees receive and are part of the salary, and which is given to employees as a reward for their labor. Compensation benefits can be divided into three major classes. These benefits can either be direct, indirect or non-financial (Lissy, 11). In direct compensation, the company pays its employee in form of salaries, remunerations, commissions and bonuses. In indirect compensation, firms and other enterprises reward their employees in other ...

One of the things that can be observed in the evolution of the society through the years, is that it cannot be denied that its behavior has become more consumeristic than ever. Nowadays, people consume many different kinds of products, regardless of whether it is a necessity or just plain leisure. In these situations, the economic activities of a country can be classified into two categories, namely the command economy system or market economy system. In the command or “planned economy” system, the government holds control of all the factors used in production, and in answering the four economic ...

The business, Farm Burger is a joint that serves burgers since April 2010. Jason Mann and George Frangos were the primary entrepreneurs of the business. The main objective of the business is to come up with a burger experience that is superlative and connects the producers and the consumers directly. This objective is however met by the main challenge, which is to have control on prices of beef products. The stakeholders of Farm Burger are the consumers and the producers which it helps to link together (Mok, Sparks, & Kadampully, 2013). The producers include the butchers, ranchers, and local farmers. ...

Recommendation I: Innovative Promotion Strategy

It is evident that Snapple drink was misinterpreted by the Quaker management, once the decision to turn it from “fashion” to “lifestyle” brand was taken on the top management. While the sales of the Snapple soft drinks fell as consumers felt betrayed and believed that the natural and family brand was “sold out”, people still feel good about the old Snapple experience, based on the following values:

Fun drink with informal and natural proposition;

Sensual experience with high variety, imaginary and special flavors; Taste experience, created by packaging of the drinks; Unique drinks, which is differentiated from traditional Coke-style sparkling drink as well as simple water; ...

Volatile Prices of Primary Goods Preventing Economic Development in LDCs

Background The primary goods refer to the products that are obtained directly from agricultural activities and are not subjected to the process of manufacturing. The most important primary products in an economy include those that are obtained from the sector, such as the fishing, agricultural, forestry, and mining industries. In terms of the least developed nations, which are mainly located in Africa, Asia, and the Latin America, the trade characteristics of their economies include the dependence on the developed, industrialized nations, and, significantly, the reliance on primary products. Accordingly, in international trade, the least developed nations’ exports are primary ...

The workplace is considered as the best place to promote the health and well-being. The reason is that; there is a large elderly population that can be reached by the health messages. Research shows, 45 percent of the workforce come from groups that are traditionally hard to get the health messages and proper diets (Johansson, & Partanen, 2002). The groups come from low socio-economic areas thus disadvantaged with health messages. Following many statistics showing that these populations are at risk of developing diseases like diabetes, stroke, hypertension and cardiovascular disease, the stakeholders have an interest in health status well-being of ...

Background

The Multifibre Agreement was developed in 1974 and governed the world’s textile sector until 2004 when it was phased-out. The accord inflicted quotas on the amount developing countries could export to the developed world. It was meant to help the developed countries adjust to existing absolute advantage that the developing countries have in the textile industry. The existence of the agreement allowed the Bangladesh textile industry to flourish in the 20th century and early 21st century. It was highly expected that the phase-out of the MFA would greatly affect Bangladesh negatively as the country was highly dependent on ...

In my previous paper, I reviewed Systems Theory of management in regards to the early management practices in Ancient Egypt. Within the current research I will discuss the US Industrial Revolution and its connection to the systematic management. To begin with, the US Industrial revolution started at the end of the 18th century and lasted for almost 100 years. Some may call it as a continuation of the British Industrial Revolution, as most changes in the US manufacturing started after new machinery and technologies were brought from the UK. Cotton production was a pioneer industry to change from handcrafted ...

Initial Post

In essence, the core competency of Tyloc Industries is the use of biodegradable raw materials to produce household furniture. Notably, the materials are acquired in a sustainable way as when one tree is cut, two are planted in its place and nurtured to maturity. The company boasts of having 2000 hectares of land. Trees are planted on this land, which is the core source of raw materials. As result of this, Tyloc is among the leading producers and distributors of household furniture. Apart from that, the brand is among the top ten most popular firms in the region. If ...

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

“We are what we eat; in the modern, western world, we are made more and, more into what we eat, whenever forces we have no control over persuade us that our consumption and our identity are linked ( Mintz, 1985, 211).” In his book, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Sidney. W. Mintz takes a historical and anthropological approach to the production and consumption of sugar and in the process explains the place of sugar in the human food chain and how capitalism and market forces changed the status of sugar from a luxury item into ...

Part 1 - Executive Summary

Most people are in need of organic foods which do not have any chemicals. Establishing an organic food supermarket will be able to provide the fresh fruits and vegetables to the people. The business will be hoping to offer best-quality feeds to the people which will promote their wellness. The venture is hoping to make profit through distributing the organic food and promote the environmental wellness. The potential growth of the business is diversifying through providing the food material, producing their own suppliers and manufacturing natural products such as creams (Canavari and Olson, 2007). When carrying out organic food ...

Introduction

Accenture is a global consulting company providing services to large business corporations all over the world and, most successfully, in the highly competitive American market meaning that this company knows how to differentiate itself from the competitors. The priority consulting spheres are strategic planning, optimization of the business process, outsourcing, client relationship management (CRM), logistic and supply chain management, HR and IT implementation projects . This is the company I took practice as a student and, though, my experience of working in Accenture was not broad I realized that the company offers perfect career opportunities for the young specialists. I ...

The term ‘macro-environment’ refers to the set of forces that influence the functioning of all the businesses at the market (Dibb and Simkin, 2008, p.26). In political terms, the fragrance market is likely to be impacted by the major trends in international relations (e.g., the conclusion of international agreements, openings and closings of markets). Similar, given the fact that the Middle Eastern producers of fragrances tend to export them to the markets of other countries, the state of the economic relations between the Middle Eastern countries and the rest of the world is highly important for exporters. Moreover, the ...

Engagement

Being one of the attendees to the Conference in Turkey, dubbed “Combating climate change, and the private sector” and hosted by the Turkey Industry and Business Association (TUSIAD). The topic for the conference is as mentioned above, and it had an array of issues to address about the political as well as the economic climate of the country (Moss et al. 750). Therefore, the paper involves a combination of the issues relating to the engagement and the research-based inferences relating to the effects of the climate change in Turkey to both business and political temperatures within the nation. It ...

Introduction

If one runs a business or invents something new it is necessary to protect intellectual property in order to succeed in the field. From all of this arises one question: what is exactly intellectual property and which are the ways to protect it? At the first sight, it may seem that it is a merely positive thing but there are some cases in which issues which are concerned with intellectual property become harmful and create problems to other people and the author itself. Thus, the aim of the following essay is to discuss the issue of intellectual property, its ...

The trade and investment relationship between Australia and China demolishes the theory of comparative advantage. According to Adam Smith and Ricardo, it makes sense for a country to focus on the production of goods and services it can do efficiently and purchase goods and services it produces less efficiently from other countries. When this theory is applied to the trade relationship between Australia, a rich country and China, a poor country, we arrive at a paradoxical outcome. The introduction of a free trade regime resulting in Australia-China trading relationship implies that Australian consumers will pay lower prices for imported ...

The term "demand" in economics means payment need, i.e. need that the subject is able to pay. From this definition it follows that the demand for a particular commodity (service) depends on the price. This means that the increase in commodity prices will lead to a decrease in demand, and, conversely, a decrease in prices will lead to higher demand. The relationship between price and quantity demanded is stable. (Agarwal, 2013) The cause of the change in demand is change. This reverse causal relationship between price and quantity demanded is the law of demand. The law of demand manifests ...

Role of community citizen in palm oil producing nation

The role of a community citizen in a palm oil producing country is very important. A community citizen will have two main roles. The first is to ensure that the people benefit from the output of palm oil and the second is to ensure that there are no adverse effects on the environment during palm oil production. This role requires the citizen to work together with palm oil producers to ensure that the population is educated about the best ways to protect the environment while producing palm. The community citizen is also tasked with working with government to ensure ...

Business: Cookies shop

Trade Format: countertop type store; Store Location: Boulevard mall; Property Type: Rental space of 50m2; Working hours: 9 AM – 7 PM; Sources of financing: own funds – 26,300 USD. Key performance indicators candy store: Monthly Profit in six months = 83,000 USD; Net profit margin = 3872%; Payback = first 10 days.

Specificity of the business

Various pastry shops are quite lucrative, since vast majority of people like treating themselves with sweet pastries and cakes. The specificity of such products involves only the development of the store on the local market, which determines its marketing strategy. Most pastry shops produce sweet products themselves, which leads ...

The Impact of the Guaranteed Price Policy on the European Sugar Market

Sugar industry is one of the most dynamic in the structure of the food industry and plays a significant role in the economies of several countries. The European Union leads the five largest importers of sugar. Sugar production in the EU is expected to grow by 10% in the 2017/18 season. The production may reach 18.3 million tons, but still will be lower than the record 2014/15 season (19.4 million tons). Sugar production growth is expected in France (up to 5.5 million tons) and the UK (up to 1.4 million tons). However, despite the increase in production, the EU ...

Introduction

Creativity exists a tenet of novel strategy that provides an acute and results-oriented process to existing problems. While creativity remains imperative in everyday solutions of predicaments, the overall success or imminent failure of the creative process as an insightful, and a rational means to an end is governed by the general approach and processes engaged. A myriad of decisions, policies, and laws in the United States have been subject to the creative thinking process. Evidentially, some have been successful, and some have failed. This essay will troubleshoot the general creative process that led to the failure of prohibition laws ...

Wal-Mart

Strategy of Wal-Mart Wal-Mart, one of the biggest world retailers, is the company that was founded in 1962. And from the very beginning, the strategy of Wal-Mart was to be a best discounted retailer that has lowest prices and is close to its customers. This strategy was performed through two main instruments – costs minimization and stores locations. As for cost minimization, it is a core competitive advantage for Wal-Mart. In other words, it is nature and spirit of Wal-Mart. And this aim was indicated just from its foundation in 1962. But how Wal-Mart succeeded in cost minimization? Generally, it ...

The coffee industry in developed countries is traditionally perceived as prosperous and stable. Also, the coffee business grows in developing countries, but this stability is apparent. Fluctuations of minimum coffee prices create serious difficulties for countries, which economies are directly dependent on coffee production. It happened that coffee sector in Mexico faced the crisis due to the evanescence of control tools, the decrease of prices, the insolvency of numerous local and global exporters, the shortage of loans, and the removal of the government from the coffee segment changed the situation in the industry (Renard, 2010). Before the crisis many ...

Industry Environment

According to the U.S. Dairy Export Council (2015), there were 9.3 million cows which produced 93.4 million tons of milk in the United States in 2014. The country has about 50,000 farms under dairy farms which are majorly family-owned (U.S. Dairy Export Council, 2015). Dairy farming is practiced in all the 50 states as well as in Puerto Rico, and it is the leading agricultural business in Arizona, California, Michigan, Idaho, New York, New Hamshire, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. 74 percent of dairy farms in the country have less than 100 cows, and the average ...

Organizational problem: Lack of team cohesion

Introduction In an organization, team members share a common objective with the aim of completing a certain standard task for corporate benefit. Human beings need a sense of belonging and identity. Team cohesion refers to the extent in which the members of a team are willing to be involved in the continuity of group task in an organization. According to Robbins et al., (2014, p. 226), teams have been identified to differ in the level of their cohesiveness. Cohesion is the unifying factor of deputies to remain in a team and brings cooperation and efficiency in tackling the task ...

Introduction

Perhaps one of the most influential forms of media proliferating nowadays is the television. Many households nowadays use television as a form of entertainment, due to the extensive range of programs that it can offer. For example, children and the youth can enjoy animations that are geared specifically to them, while older people can either enjoy drama or variety shows depending on their tastes and preferences. All in all, it can be said that television can provide a wide variety of shows from audiences from all over, thus contributing to its popularity among modern society. One of the shows ...

Health care standards have been evolving over time. A plethora of processes and forces take part in igniting the developments. These changes could be ad hoc, systematic or even consensual. At the bottom lurks a well-established organizational structure whose object is to review the performance of the standards and propose advancement where circumstances so require. However, certain areas lag, occasioning serious inefficiencies to the system. Often, the legal framework is a serious undoing and affects the realization of these standards. Besides, diverse standards contain varying recommendations, and this tends to atrophy the efforts therewith. Perhaps a biggest of all ...

Technologies such as articulation attract observation to the representations, practices, effects, and experiences that constitute them. Others such as assemblage heighten to this comprehension by drawing awareness to the methods that these representations, practices, effects, and practices articulate to use a particular dynamic shape with larger cultural outcomes. The notion of the assemblage may best be acknowledged by thinking about the term constellation, which is applied by Guattari and Deleuze when they speak about assemblage. For instance, a group of heavenly physiques such as the Big Dipper takes a particular form: it chooses, draws together, marks out, and covers ...

A free market economic system is a method of allocating resources, which is based on the market price. Prices are determined through unrestricted competition between the state and privately owned business entities

Command system works best when there are extreme market imperfections and uncontrolled monopolies

A command system works badly when the government control most of the resources and discourage fair competition because it leads to inequalities and poor quality of goods and services. The contest method of resource allocation works efficiently because increased competition ensures fair prices of goods and services. Additionally, the wage rates are high and the quality of products and services improve as various market players strive to ...

Introduction/Thesis

Reality TV shows are a common staple everywhere today. We have programs that are usually in the competition format, and supposedly the spiels are largely unscripted, in order to elicit the real reactions and spontaneous behavior of the contestants. The participants are drawn into situations they would not have participated in on their own. There is often a host who asks the questions, makes comments on those participating in the show, or who somehow moderates the competition. There are those who are in favor of this genre, as it oftentimes brings people in new situations and engages the audience ...

Final Business Plan

Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4

SWOT Analysis 6 Balanced Scorecard 9 Organizational Assessment 9 Mission 10 Vision Statement 10 Value Statement 10 Strategy and Tactics to realize Strategic Objectives 10 Marketing Strategy 11 Monitoring and Control 11 Ethical Issues including Legal and regulatory Issues 11 Corporate Social Responsibility 12 Conclusion 12

References 13

Executive Summary The Eco Food Company was incorporated in the year 2012 as an entity to provide eco-friendly and high-quality food to the consumers. The sales were executed against the orders gathered. However, with the help of its talented and dedicated staff, the organization was able to attain ...

Relationship between inflation and interest rates

Introduction Predominantly, most economic agents base their decisions on the current and expected changes in the economic conditions. Variations in interest rates have been used as a major variable by most researchers and policy analysts. Additionally, the behavior of interest rates in the economy has been studied since the interest rate is a significant macroeconomic factor to help in the understanding of how it is related to other macroeconomic variables and its impact on the economy. Primarily, interest rates entail the percentage of the loan that lending institutions charge as interest to borrowers, and it is mostly expressed as ...

Introduction

Under a merger, two business entities come together and become a new business with a new name. On many cases, the mergers bring together firms, which are equal in size and stature. On the other hand, an acquisition involves a larger and more powerful company buying another business; a smaller business. The purchased business may be fully absorbed by the parent company or in some occasions, may be operated as a subsidiary. The use of mergers and acquisitions may take place during any economic environment meaning that it may take place when the companies involved are both performing well, ...

Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality was written by Gail Dines in 2010. As a sociologist, Dine’s perspective on pornography is that it has hampered the growth of sexuality and distorted the views of both young men and women, not only on sexuality as a whole, but on their own sexuality. Dines describes pornography as a “parallel universe” where there is no longer human complexity, life pleasures or deep connections, instead humans become “orifices and body parts” . Gonzo porn is the focus of her book. This is porn that is hard core with sex that punishes the ...

Innovation Process: Developing New Products and Services

Innovation Process: Developing New Products and Services

Introduction and background

This paper analyzes the case of how the music industry has gone through various technological thus forcing the business leaders to rethink of the forward strategies. The transformation from the usage of radio cassettes in the 1960s to the present day MP3 wide usage has seen the music industry and business grow in leaps and bounds. The golden age reached its peak after 1990. This paper uses business models, specifically, the Porters five forces in order to understand how the whole product shifting basis of completion and central role of user experience ...

The Role of EPR in Sustainable Waste Management

Introduction The problem of the disposal of end-of-life or waste tyres has become a serious problem in the whole world including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)— Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. It is a problem that has largely been ignored in the past. Waste tyres were used largely as landfill. The environmental, health and economic hazards are only realized when problems—like fires arise. In the Kirby Tire Recycling dump near the village of Sycamore in Wyandot County, Ohio, USA, a fire burned a tyre landfill spread across 14 acres in August ...

Elasticity is a measure of the sensitivity of supply and demand to changes in factors that define them, primarily to a change in the value of the goods. (Mankiw, 2009) In quantitative terms, the elasticity means the degree or measure the response in one variable to the result of a one percent change in another variable value. The most important role in the elasticity of supply and demand plays a varying demand that depends on the prices.

The main factors influencing price elasticity of demand are:

Availability of high-quality interchangeable goods and the price level on them (the more substitutes and the lower the prices are, the more ...

This paper presents profitability analysis of two companies listed and active in the London Stock Exchange. The two companies selected for the analysis include Premier Oil PLC trading under the ticker symbol PMO and Genel Energy PLC falling under the ticker symbol GENL in the exchange. The two companies fall under the Oil and Gas Producer main market segment of the London Stock Exchange. At the time of presenting this report, GENL traded at a price of 97.50p with a 52-week range of 71.75p to 441.00p. On the other hand, the MPS of Premier Oil PLC was at 63.50p ...

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Introductory remarks

Alberta oil is one of the largest oil fields in the world. According to Simon Dyer, “The Canadian oil sands are the second largest proven oil reserve after Saudi Arabia” (Dyer, 2009). The commercial development of the Alberta oil sand had begun in the late 1960s. By the time World War I had arrived, and after the war was over, Canada was almost entirely dependent on oil from foreign countries. Canadians, after the war, began to wonder if the nation had any oil resources of their own. This interest led to the creation of the Alberta Research ...

Introduction

The primary objective of a copyright law is to protect the ideas, time and imaginations of the producer of a particular work including the effort contributed towards the individual work. The owner of the concrete work is assured of individual rights such as:

Produce other works established on the original work

Duplicate or imitate his or her work Circulate original copies and any other copies through sale or charter Live performances of the work in public Public exhibition of the work The owner of the work can assign individuals to accomplish any of the rights provided by the law. If the copyright owner decides to transfer the ...

Introduction

The aim of every business is to make as much profit as possible, by selling their goods and services to the consumers in the most efficient ways (Friedman, 2007). At times, it is not possible for the producers to sell their goods and services to the consumers, thereby requiring an intermediary that will make it possible for the producer to reach the consumers. These intermediaries are called marketing channels, and they help in the transfer of the ownership of goods, from their point of production to their point of consumption. In other words, marketing channels make it possible for ...

Executive Summary

Fossil fuels are the predominant source of energy for industrial and transportation consumption. It is however expected that in a few more decades, fossil fuels will have lesser role to play than non-conventional oil and gas sources and renewable energy sources. This paper presents an overview of some of the socioeconomic factors that are driving the global oil industry and their implications for the UK industry. Four key influences are studied to understand the implications for the industry in terms of economic and environmental factors. The steady influence of OPEC is a significant factor in the pricing of crude ...

Applying the knowledge of microeconomics in practice allows solving various issues that producers are facing. The importance of microeconomic analysis becomes more evident during the periods of economic slowdown like the current one. As the economic activity decreases, prices fall and firms have to find ways in order to remain profitable. This issue is crucial for agricultural producers, that currently facing the simultaneous decrease in prices and increase in input costs, as indicated by the recent news article (Hawkes, 2016 July 19). The author believes that the USDA program would help to reduce variable costs in the crop industry. ...

Background Information on Supply & Demand

Background Information on Supply & Demand Market attractiveness can be characterized by the interactions between inner motivations of buyers and manufacturers, as well as price and quantity for a product determined by the external market forces. Basically, the price reflects and channels the motives and desires of the potential consumers. Supply and demand are considered the fundamental principles of the market economy. Demand explains the necessary amount of a product desired by consumers. Supply represents the volumes of production the market can handle. The balance between price and volumes of production is known as the supply relationship. Meanwhile, price is ...

Introduction

The essence of a company is to take inputs from the external environment, process it and offer it to consumers. In this world where all nations are capitalist in outlook, there are anti-trust laws that means that for any product a company produces, there are many sellers targeting the same or similar consumer. This forms the boundaries of an industry. Each industry has its market – which include the total number of consumers. And firms in the industry seek to gain or expand their market share. In order to capture a higher and bigger market share, a firm will need ...

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)

Introduction Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is one of the leading public corporations in the United States that operate to improve the nation’s economy in various capacities (USDA 2016). It was created in 1933 with an aim of stabilising, supporting and protecting the income and prices derived from the farming activities. Besides, it was also charged with the maintenance a balanced and sufficient supplies of the agricultural products, thus facilitating an organised distribution of commodities. According to Vercammen (2012), the formation of CCC was based on the Delaware charter with the capitalization of $3 million. It was initially managed, ...

Lenscrafters Case Study

Lenscrafters is a business firm providing eye care services. The headquarters of the company is located in Cincinnati, Ohio state. Most of its customers are drawn from America, Puerto Rico, as well as Canada. Lenscrafters has approximately eight hundred and sixty stores around the world for distribution of its goods. The company is regarded as the largest optical chain in the United States of America. The company began in 1983 producing quality eye glasses and sun glasses. With their excellent customer services, the company has grown into one of the top business entities in the world. This paper is ...

Introductory Remarks

At this point, it is no secret the American society shows a degree of tolerance lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered individuals never enjoyed in the 20th century. The question emerges of why it is that people have grown more tolerant towards and supportive of LGBT individuals. Media categories, such as television and films considered the carriers of culture, influence people’s perception, as does the culture itself shaping it. Thus, the way such phenomenon as same-sex relationships along with their participants are depicted in television and movies determines how tolerantly the society will perceive such people. The major research ...

American Public University

Technological development is expected to provide a more comfortable life for people. However, there is no certain scientific proof that exhibits that technological development could assist us to solve poverty problem or any other social issue based on limited natural resources. The primary expectation is to substitute limited natural resources with capital and solve the satisfaction problem of people. In this paper, I will discuss two main issues with food production: conventional farming and genetically engineered food. Also, I will consider Malthus' law of population to indicate that even technological development cannot create desired conditions for a large world ...

A. Community health nursing is a concept that seeks to identify and analyze all vital data in relation to a community or a group of people to assist in the development of appropriate interventions that can improve the health status of the community or group. It is a concept that recognizes the importance of the social-health determinants and their influence on the quality of health and be quality of life depicted by the community (Stanhope, Lancaster & Stanhope, 2014). If applied, the community health nurse has to focus on the needs of the community across the economic, social, cultural and ...

Nowadays globalization is developing rapidly; more and more companies establish their subsidiaries in the foreign countries. Many organizations have presence all around the world. This process has either advantages or disadvantages; however, companies receive mostly positive outcomes of globalization, such as access to the new markets and outstanding talent, outsourcing of production and R&D, learning the experience of the foreign colleagues, and etc. This reported is devoted to identification of the ways of international business strategy’s improvement for Adidas Company.

Globalization

Globalization has made significant changes of the world economy. It foresees the following aspects: Nations differences: the competitive ...

Abstract

The paper investigates state and international policies on e-waste and on so called “planned obsolescence”. But first it explores the personal emotional story behind the most important and meaningful electronic device in the author’s life. Keywords: favorite personal electronic device, international policies on e-waste, planned obsolescence problem

My favorite device

My favorite and really meaningful for my whole life electronic device now is the Seagate Fast HDD Portable Drive which can store up to 4 terabytes of files and documents of any nature. It looks like a black cigarette package with attached to it a short 40 cm cable with the ...

[Author Name(s),First M. Last, Omit Titles, and Degrees] Economic development changes society in a manner that it becomes more and more difficult for the country to remain in the hands of a single man or a group of powerful elite. The change results to transforming the social and economic framework and then moving towards a changed attitude of the population in general. The primary concern of the countrymen is to achieve a commercial greater status and increase their wealth holdings. This changing scenario leads to people taking to skilled professions; they learn the importance of collective effort ...

A distribution channel is a series that a commodity passes through to get to the final user, which is the consumer (Cravens & Piercy, 2006). The series might be a business or intermediaries who ensure a product or a service reaches those it is meant to benefit. The series can be one of the following;

Internet

Wholesalers Distributors Retailers Agents It can either be short or long, in that, when sold from the producer to the consumer directly, it is a short, while long when passes through intermediaries. In most cases, the intermediaries receive the product or service from the producer ...

About the company

Spirit AeroSystems designs and builds aerostructures for both commercial and defense customers. The headquarters of the company is in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit and the main markets are North America, Europe and Asia. It was founded in 1927 by aviation pioneer Lloyd Stearman. Two years later the company was bought by Boeing. The current name company received in 2005 Major products of AeroSystems are fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components. The company focuses on innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions to support its customers in each part of the world, where it is presented. The company has more than 16, ...

Saudi Arabia, being the largest Arab nation both in physical size and the size of the economy, was ranked as the 15th largest exporter and the 20th largest importer in the world in 2014. The country is ranked high in the foreign trade market because of its great participation in the global market. Shoult (2006) argues that, being the largest economy in the region, Saudi Arabia plays a crucial role in the Arab world economy, accounting to more than 25% of Middle East’s G.D.P (Gross Domestic Product). The nation’s strong economy and a rapid economic growth rate ...

Introduction

Organizations refer to entities or enterprises with distinct goals and aspirations, which operate within strict definitions or boundaries (Senior, 2002). In this perspective, organizational change is a phenomenon that occurs in every organization with a wide operation base. However, the magnitude of change is dependent on the size of the organization or the complexity of operations that the company or an organization engages in, either in products or customers. Moreover, organizational change can also be planned by the organization or unplanned. Unplanned organizational change is a result of external and internal forces that lead to the change of operations ...

The competition is a prerequisite and characteristic feature of the market. After all, if the basis for the functioning of a market economy put the domination of private ownership of the means of production, which, in turn, acts as a guarantee of freedom of choice for entrepreneurs in their activities, and certainly there is competition between them. The word competition comes from Latin and means to flee together to compete on some other career. This competition is crucial for establishing market prices, which are the main feature of a market economy. Competition (in the economic sense) - the rivalry ...