... investment profitable. High tariffs were prohibited because of an 'unequal' treaty with the US. Japan did not obtain tariff autonomy until 1911. It was during this time that the themes of modern Japanese industrial policy emerge. After a decade and a half of direct state operation of economic enterprises, Meiji Japan began to shift away from state entrepreneurship to collaboration with ... increasing the eventual losses to the system. By 1998 even venerable institutions like the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan had to be bailed out by the government. Japan has long relied on four industrie...

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... Summary In the last decade, the financial services industry in Singapore has revolutionized. As the society becomes more affluent and literate, consumers have higher demand and expectations of services. This is true to the younger generation who are more IT (Information Technology) savvy. Technological advancement, acting as a catalyst, has accelerated the changes in the financial services industry. According to ... required will be optimism, determination, organized, enthusiasm and most importantly, a good listener. 2.4 Analysis Liberalization, introduced by Prime Minister Mr. Lee Hsie...

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... lived. While money is a significant motivator, it only goes so far particularly concerning job satisfaction. Human resource management concerns making sure that the work force performs according to an organization's expectations. Consequently, many organizations assume that workers are just resources there to work and receive money in addition to the benefits involved. However, this article points to the fact that people ... ...

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... widespread education producing much support for the Great Leap Outward early on. However, the resultant growth in skilled and educated graduates far exceeded the job opportunities available for them. The expectations bred in the earlier years of success were left tragically unfulfilled, undermining faith in the government's competence and a desire for a fundamental reform of the government. The new economic system also ... ...

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... these theories as they pertain to the current discussion. Stockholder (Classic) Theory The "traditional" or "classic" view of business - that the sole purpose of corporations is to maximise profits - has been summarised by James W. McKie [12] along the following lines: 1. Businesses do not serve the same goals as other organisations in a pluralistic society; they are distinct because their sole focus ... the social responsibility of corporations. Social Contract Theory The third view on the role of corporations in making ethical decisions within a social context, is the social contract t...

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... quality we can use the SERVQUAL model developed in the 1980 by Zeithaml, Parasuraman and Berry. Service quality can be described as the gap between customers' real service and their expectations about the service. This definition can be extended to the evaluation of a specific service into five service quality dimensions: tangibility, responsiveness, reliability, empathy and assurance. Tangibility is about materials, ... of the total dimensions in the total service quality; dimensions do not affect the total service quality in the same degree. Some of them have a stronger impact and th...

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... disrupt balances. Although Smith believes in free markets, he doesn't necessarily need the government to be inactive, but limited. In his book Wealth of Nations, Smith states that the government has three functions and none initiated any kind of government-regulated market or economy. However, Smith emphasizes on education as a public good. To some extent, education can be a form of indirect ... the distinctive characteristics of the form of government best fitted to promote the interests of any given society" (Mill, pg.120)? Mill explains that all societies have different needs and exp...

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... faced an unanticipated surge of competition from overseas, especially from the Japanese company Komatsu. However, it is important to specify, as Froud et al. (1998) successfully argue, that Komatsu has never had a productive advantage over Caterpillar. Presenting a comparative flow measure for the company in terms of a value added/stocks measure, Froud et al. (1998) indeed demonstrate that ... study will be inserted. Because of the ever-changing character of the industry reality, any industry is likely to find its structures and skills progressively less attuned to the market expectation...

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... young people can do better. These economic factors initiate the second reason of migration, political instability. Political inconsistencies in Turkey ¬ cause people lose confidence in their governments and future expectations for a better life. Because the majority of people work for their family's future benefit, the government should promise to make their desires real in the future. Another major reason for ... are looking for a higher education abroad. ("Reasons Why Highly Trained/Skilled Persons Leave from SSA to More Developed Countries of the West-, Muriithi James Gitari) In the...

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... young people can do better. These economic factors initiate the second reason of migration, political instability. Political inconsistencies in Turkey ¬ cause people lose confidence in their governments and future expectations for a better life. Because the majority of people work for their family's future benefit, the government should promise to make their desires real in the future. Another major reason for ... are looking for a higher education abroad. ("Reasons Why Highly Trained/Skilled Persons Leave from SSA to More Developed Countries of the West-, Muriithi James Gitari) In the...

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... into an employment opening in an overseas division of a business, or a foreign business, and use the exact same managerial style he/she did in America. A new set of techniques, expectations, and protocols must be learned before one can have the greatest chance at a successful shift from domestic business to international business. Although the difficulty of the transition may not stem ... , some companies will go to very immoral means in order to profit from their production. Accounting is another major area in business that is heavily influenced by cultural aspects. Accounting has an imp...

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... can change how safe, healthy and happy people feel. Throughout history, people have looked for better ways to meet their needs and to satisfy their expectations. Technology has improved the way people feed, clothe and shelter themselves. Technology has also changed other aspects of everyday life, such as health care, education, job satisfaction, and leisure time activities. People have used technology since they ... ...

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... the development of globalization, the competition among industries becomes more and more fierce. How to earn more profits with much lower operational cost has become every company's concern and pursuit. Unfortunately, in order to reach their profitable goal, many companies adopt illegal and immoral methods to ... perceived as being stakeholders. One organization may address CSR solely by providing day care facilities for working mothers, while the business down the street has an institutionalized CSR program designed to meet at least some of the most pressing business-related needs of s...

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... which Tesco operates. To analyse the internal business environment, the SWOT tool will be used. " A business firm does not operate in a vacuum but in a given environment, and has to interact and transact its business within this environment" (Fernando, 2011, p33). The two types of business environment are external (macro and micro environment) and internal. As Tesco operates ... globally, it has to obey various government regulation and laws where they are operating. In terms of employment, the UK government encourages retail organisations to offer various types of job opportunities ran...

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... bright side, American families have been able to enjoy more than three years of uninterrupted economic growth and falling unemployment since the recession ended. The downside is that economic growth has averaged less than 2.25% since the recovery began and is estimated to have slowed to less than 1% in the most recent quarter. Yet, unemployment is still way above where it ... recent numbers reported were 155,000 jobs were added to the US economy in December 2012. The unemployment rate of 7.8% was unchanged from the percentage reported in November 2012. It has been estimated that creatio...

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... the moment. With consumer confidence at very low levels due to the terrorist attacks, consumers are spending less and saving more. The Fed has dropped interest rates 10 times in the last 11 months to spur the economy, with little success. The down side of this is that ... Fed to quickly raise interest rates to prevent inflation from exploding. In short, inflation is at a tolerable level, but will bear close watching. Unemployment has just been announced at 5.4% for October, the first time in 4 years that it's topped 5%. Many of the new jobless claims were announced as ... against the unem...

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... inherent and must be inherent in the employment relationship" (Kahn-Freund 1972:8). All that workers bring to this bargaining is their only asset, their capacity to work, whereas the employee has the ability to seek alternate labour resources, particularly if there is an over supply of a particular skill. (Creighton & Stewart 1990: 2-3). For modern society, this unbalanced relationship requires that ... unitarists do. Conflict is inherent in the employment relationship due to the fact that the employment contract involves two totally different groups of people with different goals, pers...

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... successful organization has to have proper strategies, marketing and effective management. However, there are more different responsibilities that organizations have to face in order to become the leader in today's competitive business world. This paper will mainly focuses on the influence of economic responsibilities, legal, ethical and discretionary responsibilities, several real life examples will be discussed to illustrate the themes of all ... order to make social contribution. This decision is totally up to the corporate and its management. Like food bank and donation to charity a...

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... on Rural Women and having been an economics professor at Rutgers University, Beneria comes from a very relevant and important point of view in which she has seen all sides of these many complicated issues. In the first half of the book, Beneria looks at the issues facing the individual concepts of ... and women, as it was seen as very empowering for the women even though these were not positions that forcedprogressive social change.? Last, there has been a major impact on the issues of gender, development, and even globalization because of the shift in social sciences from focusing on the...

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... sort them into groups that either support R-A theory or the neoclassical theory. 3.0 Annotated review of marketing (research) literature The single most important macroeconomic phenomenon of the twentieth century has undoubtedly been the collapse of command economies (Hunt & Morgan, 1995). Economies that are based on competition rather than planned/ command economies are far superior in terms of the ... pro-competitive (Hunt & Morgan, 1995). 4.0 Summary of patterns After analysing a range of articles from the marketing literature, some patterns start to emerge. One of the recurring theme...

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... aggregate consumption, investment, net government spending (G-T) and net exports (X-M), the equation would be as follows AD = C + I + G + (X-M). The components of aggregate demand include the Consumption function, which has two components, one autonomous (independent of national income) and the other induced or dependant on income. C = C0 + cY where Y is income, C is total consumption expenditure, C0 is autonomous consumption and ... of their productivity. Investment is assumed to be autonomous since factors other than income, such as the cost of capital (the rate of interest), returns o...

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According to Moghadam (as cited in Bacchus, 2003) globalization has become one of the recurring themes in 21st century, which affected to the various dimensions of life: economy, capital mobilization, and political views. This term has positive effects on women including education and new technology in healthcare. Globalization gives an opportunity to women in developed countries, but leads to social exclusion in developing countries ... extra tutorials. In developing countries it is even harder to study, due to the widespread poverty and fiscal crisis. For example, Kinyanjui studied the case...

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... The ethnic minority communities have attempted for self-government at local and regional levels and a constitutional reform towards federalism. The Rajapakse government is committed to the unitary state. It has taken several measure to undermine the already weak provincial council system introduced in 1987 through an agreement between the governments of India and Sri Lanka to defuse the demand for ... direct employment. Economic liberalization drove many import-substituting industries into closure with loss of employment among older male workers. The most important source of foreign ear...

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... labour force is agriculturally based. Due to its unfavourably small surface area, Singapore lacks arable land and natural resources, like fuels, metals, or minerals. Instead, the nation has employed a comprehensive program of industrialization, with a focus on labour-intensive industries. The economy is driven by exports in electronics, manufacturing and machinery, financial services, tourism, and the ... is known for its stable political climate; the current ruling party is the PAP (People's Action Party) and despite its unpopularity, PAP's governance and policy decisions that has co...

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... firms and products to avoid "relegation to "Third World" status" (Lyon, 1988: 1). Thus it is argued, "[g]reater competition ... does little in a positive sense to help build new industries. Accordingly, there has been considerable pressure on Federal and State Governments to "do something" to assist economic adjustment positively." (Bell and Head, 1994: 14) In this "globalised", "competitive" and "borderless" world, the future ... form the objects and practices that they purport to describe. In doing so, such discourses create new vocabularies and narratives; writers draw on each other'...

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