Business in Context

4th Edition
David Needle
9781861529923

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Ch 1 > Ch 2 > Ch 3 > Ch 4 > Ch 5 > Ch 6 > Ch 7 > Ch 8 > Ch 9 > Ch 10 > Ch 11 > Ch 12 > Ch 13

Chapter 1. The Concept of Business in Context

Autoindustry Statistics: ww.autoindustry.co.uk/statistics/production/europe
www.autoindustry.co.uk/statistics/sales/europe
Ford Motor Company: www.ford.com/
Daewoo: www.daewoo-auto.com/
Fiat: www.fiat.com/
Toyota: www.toyota.com/
GM: www.gm.com/
VW: www.volkswagen.de/home_e/index_.htm
Mercedes: www.mercedes-benz.com/com/e/home/
Daimler-Chrysler: www.daimlerchrysler.com/dccom
Renault: www.renault.com/
PSA: www.psa.fr/
Proton: www.proton.com/
BMW: www.bmw.com/
Honda: www.honda.com/
British Aerospace: www.baesystems.com/
Mitsubishi: www.mitsubishi.com/

1.2 News International and Wapping

News International: www.newsint.co.uk
News Corporation: www.newscorp.com/index2.html
Transport and General Workers Union: www.tgwu.org.uk/
ACAS: www.acas.org.uk/
The Guardian: www.guardian.co.uk/
TUC: www.tuc.org.uk/

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Chapter 2. Globalization

2.1 Beijing Jeep

Beijing Jeep: www.beijing-jeep.com/
Daimler-Chrysler: www.daimlerchrysler.com/dccom

2.2 Sleek International Ltd

Sleek International: www.sleek.co.uk/
Henan Rebecca Hair Products: www.chinarebecca.com/

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Chapter 3. The Environment and Business: Economy, State, Technology and Labour

3.1 The Asian Tigers

World Bank: www.worldbank.org
Hyunda: iwww.hyundai-motor.com/
LG: www.lge.com/
Samsung: www.samsung.com/

3.2 Raleigh

Raleigh: www.raleighbikes.com/

3.3 State Intervention and British Business since 1990

3.4 China and the WTO

WTO: www.wto.org/
South China Morning Post: www.scmp.com/
Asian Wall Street Journal: https://www.awsj.com.hk/awsj2/

3.5 Thomson Holidays

Thomson Holidays: www.thomson-holidays.com/
Britannia Airlines: www.britanniaairways.com/
Expedia: www.expedia.co.uk/
British Airways: www.britishairways.com/
Portland Holidays: www.portland-holidays.co.uk/

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Chapter 4. Cultural Influences and Business

4.1 Nissan UK

Nissan UK: www.nissan.co.uk/
Saatchi and Saatchi: www.saatchi.com/worldwide/index2.html

Renault: www.renault.com

4.2 Sogo

Sogo: www.sogo.com.tw/
Seibu: www.seibu.co.jp/

4.3 Business and Management in Singapore

Economic Development Board: www.sedb.com/
Central Provident Fund: www.cpf.gov.sg/
Development Bank of Singapore: www.dbs.com.sg/
Singapore Airlines: www.singaporeair.com/
Motorola: www.motorola.com/
Philips: www.philips.com/

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Chapter 5. Organizational Aspects of Business

5.1 London Zoo

London Zoo www.londonzoo.co.uk/
Whipsnade: www.whipsnade.co.uk/
Zoological Society of London: www.zsl.org/
RSPCA: www.rspca.org.uk/

5.2 Dow Corning

Dow Corning: www.dowcorning.com/

5.3 IBM

IBM: www.ibm.com/

5.4 Railtrack

Railtrack/Network Rail: www.networkrail.co.uk/
Stagecoach: www.stagecoachplc.com/
Virgin Trains: www.virgintrains.co.uk/
National Express: www.nationalexpress.com/neh.cfm
Thames Trains: www.thamestrains.co.uk/
Great Western Trains: www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/home/index.php

5.6 Hewlett Packard

Hewlett Packard: www.hp.com/

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Chapter 6. Management and Leadership

6.2 Executive Pay in the UK

Guardian: www.guardian.co.uk/executivepay
GlaxoSmithKline: www.gsk.com/index.htm

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Chapter 7. Management Strategy

7.1 Strategic Options Facing the UK Machine Tool Industry in the 1980's

7.2 3M

3M: www.3m.com/index.jhtml

7.3 The New British Universities

HEFC: www.hefce.ac.uk/
QAAHE: www.qaa.ac.uk/

7.4 The Failed Merger between Renault and Volvo

Renault: www.renault.com
Volvo: www.volvocars.com/
Ford: www.ford.com/
Nissan: www.nissanmotors.com/

7.5 Guinness and Grand Metropolitan

Guinness: www.guinness.com/
Allied Domecq: www.allieddomecqplc.com/
Diageo: www.diageo.com
LVMH: www.lvmh.com/
Burger King: www.burgerking.com/
Pillsburywww.pillsbury.com/
Carlsberg-Tetley www.carlsberg.com/
Nomura www.nomura.co.jp/
William Hillwww.willhill.com/
Basswww.bass-brewers.com/

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8.1 Enron

Enron: www.enron.com/corp/
Dynegy: www.dynegy.com/

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Chapter 9. Innovation

9.1 The Workmate

Black and Decker: www.blackanddecker.com/home.aspx

9.2 Inmos

Inmoswww.inmos.com/
Thorn EMIwww.emigroup.com/
STMicroelectronicswww.st.com/
QPL Limitedwww.qpl.com

9.3 Innovation and Marketing: Two Cases

9.3a The Brownie 127 and Canon Autofocus

Kodak: www.kodak.com/
Canon: www.canon.com/

9.3b The 3M 'Post-it' notes

3M: www.3m.com/index.jhtml

9.4 The Shipping Industry

9.5 GlaxoSmithKline

GlaxoSmithKline: www.gsk.com/index.htm

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Chapter 10. Operations

10.1 Eberspacher and Mercedes Benz

Eberspacher: www.eberspacher.com/
Mercedes Benz: www.mercedes-benz.com/com/e/home/index.html
Daimler-Chrysler: www.daimlerchrysler.com/dccom
Continental: www.conti-online.com

10.2 Grundig

Grundig: www.grundig.com/
Philips: www.philips.com/
Blaupunkt: www.blaupunkt.com/

10.3 Orlake Records

First Sound and Vision Group
Polygram/Universal: www.polygram.com/
EMI: www.emigroup.com/
Ministry of Sound: www.ministryofsound.com/home/

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Chapter 11. Marketing

11.1: Two sales promotions

11.1a Hoover

Hoover: www.hoovercompany.com/
Maytag group: www.maytag.com
Candy: www.candy-domestic.co.uk/

11.1b McDonald's Kiasu Burger and the forth flavour

McDonalds: www.mcdonalds.com/

11.2 Arsenal F.C.

Arsenal F.C: www.arsenal.com/

11.3 The Growth of Telemarketing in Flower Sales

Interflora: www.interflora.co.uk/
Teleflorist: www.teleflorist.co.uk/index.php
Flowers Direct: www.flowersdirect.co.uk/
1-800-Flowers: www.1800flowers.com/
FTD: www.ftd.com/
NASDAQ-AMEX Stock Exchange: www.nasdaq.com/

11.4 Disneyland Paris

Disneyland Paris: www.disneylandparis.com/
Disney Corporation: http://disney.go.com
Le Louvre: www.louvre.fr/
Centre Georges Pompidou: www.centrepompidou.fr/
Eiffel Tower: www.tou-eiffel.fr/www.tour-eiffel.fr/
ABC Television: http://abc.go.com/

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12.1 IBM HR Policies

IBM: www.ibm.com/us/

12.2 The Perkins Engine Group

Perkins Engine Group: www.perkins.com/
Massey Ferguson: www.masseyferguson.com/mfagcomain/
LucasVarity: www.lucasvarity.com/
Caterpillar: www.caterpillar.com/
Rolls Royce: www.rolls-royce.com/
Volkswagen: www.vw.com/

12.3 British Airways

British Airways: www.british-airways.com
Virgin Airlines: www.virgin-atlantic.com
SAS: www.scandinavian.net/
easyJet: www.easyjet.com
Buzz: www.ryanair.com
American Airlines: www.aa.com
Qantas Airways: www.quantas.com.au
Cathay Pacific Airways: www.cathaypacific.com
Iberia Airlines of Spain: www.iberia.com
Finnair www.finnair.fir/

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Chapter 13. Finance and Accounting

13.1 Football - a case of finances out of control?

Manchester United: www.manutd.com/
Leeds United: www.leedsunited.com/
BSkyB: www.sky.com/

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