Voluntary sustainability initiatives (VSIs) have become the most applied approach for companies to set environmental or social obligations for their supply-chains. However, companies face two main challenges in the design of VSIs: Firstly, they recognise acceptance problems by different stakeholders and opposition by competing initiatives. Secondly, they experience significant resource demands to set up VSIs and ask for more efficient solutions. Nils Peters addresses these challenges by empirically analysing the key resources and complementarities that enable companies to efficiently...

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: Sehr gut, The University of Surrey (School of Management), language: English, abstract: As many other industries the car manufacturing industry has been hardly hit in the most countries by the international financial crisis and subsequent economic slowdown. Several reasons of the credit crunch have also been the trigger for turbulences in the car industry, especially in Europe and the United States of America. Years of cheap and extensive opportunities to finance new cars...

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: Sehr gut, The University of Surrey (School of Management), course: Business Administration, language: English, abstract: Today, the service sector contributes to a major part of the GDP of the most developed countries, while the share of services of the total export of these countries is comparable low. This constitutes certain challenges for the internationalisation of services. With regard to the use of "country-of-origin effects" (COO), the special service...

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: Sehr gut, The University of Surrey (School of Management), language: English, abstract: Following the concept of value disciplines (Treacy, 1993), companies can reach leadership positions in their industries by focusing on one of the three following areas: - Product Leadership - Customer Intimacy - Operational Excellence Focusing on companies which are well known for their success based on operational excellence, goal of this paper is to compare and contrast the operation strategies of...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich BWL - Allgemeines, Note: 1, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Projektarbeit beschaftigt sich mit der Frage, wie durch Sportberichterstattung in den Medien Gewinn erzielt werden kann und welche Problematik dabei entsteht. Der Vorgabe entsprechend wurde ein Partnerunternehmen ausgewahlt auf welches sich die theoretischen Erkenntnisse beziehen lassen. Die Wahl fiel auf das Basketball Magazin, BASKET," welches unter der, Koln Sport Verlag" GmbH erscheint. Ziel dieses Projektes ist die Aufstellung einer Beispielrechnung zur Ermittlung eines...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich BWL - Rechnungswesen, Bilanzierung, Steuern, Fachhochschule Stralsund, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit beschaftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Grokonzerne Gewinne in Steueroasen verteilen, um Steuern zu vermeiden, und welche Gegenmanahmen global entwickelt werden. Um einen praktischen Bezug herzustellen, wurde ein Beispielunternehmen ausgewahlt, auf welches sich die theoretischen Erkenntnisse beziehen lassen. Auf den Weltkonzern -Starbucks Coffee Company-, welcher legal und aktiv Steuervermeidung durch Gewinnverschiebung ausubt, lassen...

Shapes of Things to Come
Jean Prouve s economical elegance

French-born Jean Prouve (1901 1984) was the 20th century s leading construction designer, a self-declared constructeur and member of the jury who oversaw the design of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. As a designer, he captured the midcentury spirit of innovation, expansion, and growth, developing techniques that united simple, striking aesthetics with practical, cost-effective materials and assembly.

From vast, temporary exhibition marquees to handheld...