Multinational companies

known as the “plankton” consist of a high number of freelancers and microbusinesses that specialize in content creation for the creative industries. The second group known as the “whales”, constitutes of a small number of extremely large, often multinational corporations, who are the big names that control the commissioning, publishing, and distribution of the plankton’s content (Davies & Sigthorsson, 2013). The many flaws of the whale-plankton business ecology of the contemporary creative…

economic unit”. Businesses rely on planning as a road map to guide their current actions and their steps for the future. With the growth of companies both domestic and internationally, increased complexity requiring coordination and knowledge transfer, cannot be accomplished without planning. Daft (2016) reports that 70 percent of international companies believe that “planning, scheduling, and control” in order to “provide enterprise leadership” is the main function of corporate headquarters…

This was a major concern the anarchists had during the 1999 Seattle WTO protest. As Han Shan of the Ruckus Society put it, “they are out for their own corporate agenda...not looking for a sustainable future.” Large companies like Nike and Starbucks were faced with accusations that they were treating third world countries poorly. In a speech by Nike Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Phil Knight, he talks about these allegations, saying, “It’s been said that Nike has…

Staffing the Multinational Enterprise: 1. Parent country nationals: most IHRM literature revolves around PCNs. PCNs are defined as employees that live and are employed in the home country of the MNEs headquarters. When these individuals are assigned and transferred a position in a subsidiary to the company that is located in a foreign country, the individuals are referred to as expatriates. Once they have returned from their assignment abroad as an expat to the home country of the MNEs…

My story begins in a delivery room in Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge, Iowa on July 29, 1994 which is when I was born. I am the third child of Brian Breiholz and Ronna Bell who had been raising their children in a two story house in Fort Dodge. This is the same town that a majority of my intermediate and extended were born and raised - except my siblings. They have the privilege of being born in places incredibly more exciting that the town that has the nickname of "Dirty Dodge".…

Globalization is a process by which different businesses develop an International influence. It’s a process of an interaction among people, the government and as well has companies from different nations, driven by an international trade and investment by information technology. In globalization, there are many key factors for example trade. Tarde is buying as well as selling goods and getting different goods back instead. For example, if Sweden doesn’t have any oil but they do have gold and…

Communicative leadership in an intercultural context: A case study of Volvo Group. Introduction Today, multinational corporations are looking for managers that are capable of managing a diverse workgroup and that are aware of the unique transnational business climate (Chong, 2014). However, selected managers have a tendency to not complete the international expansion due to difficulty of adapting to the new country (Jones et al., 2014). This proves the need for research on intercultural and…

Globalisation can be described as “a complex phenomenon; it is the interactive co-evolution of millions of technological, cultural, economic, social and environmental trends at all conceivable spatiotemporal scales.” (Rennen, Martens, 2003: 137). Globalisation is a process which involves the international movement of goods, services, money and ideas around the world. It has been argued that globalisation has many consequences, both positive and negative, for developing countries. This essay is…

human resource management in a global context. The conduct of business is increasingly global in scope and managing human resources has become even more important in the successful conduct of global business. Human resource management (HRM) in the Multinational enterprises (MNEs) is playing an increasingly significant role in providing solutions to business problems at the global level. In the last six decades, the economies of the world have become increasingly…

inspections of factories to make companies comply with the laid down rules. The aspect would make companies accountable for protecting the workers’ rights. If any business is found guilty of breaching workers’ rights, the government should seek judicial redress and require them to address the situation. This way, it would guarantee the inherent rights that each human being…