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Cultural diversity and international business in the modern marketplace

Assessing Current Models of Cultural Dimensions and Practical Implications for the Workplace Business used to be conducted at the local marketplace -- a specific centralized area or single street within a town or village where crops and crafts were traded or bought and sold in currency…

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Papua New Guinea history and business culture for expatriates

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Solar still technology and sustainable engineering ethics

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Consumer data privacy and corporate marketing segmentation ethics

Whenever a consumer enters into a relationship with a corporation, he or she is making a leap of faith that the company will not use his or her information in a compromising fashion.

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Electronic ticketing adoption and business case for efficient airline

An electronic ticket or e-ticket, as the name suggests, is the use of the electronic media usually, the internet, to book or purchase airline tickets. E-ticketing can also be done via the telephone but is not as popular as the booking of tickets through the internet.

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Sexual imagery in modern American advertising: ethics and gender representation

Sex has been used to promote and market commercial products either directly or indirectly practically since the dawn of the modern age of advertising.

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Nike's use of child labor and the ethics of offshore manufacturing

It is no secret that American-owned countries frequently outsource their labor to people in foreign countries, because foreign labor is cheap when compared to domestic labor.

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Vioxx and the ethics of undisclosed cardiovascular risks

Vioxx was a drug originally marketed to patients suffering from chronic pain, often as a result of arthritis. It was designed to be more effective than traditional remedies, such as the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) ibuprofen.

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Cultural sensitivity and globalization in international business

As the year 2009 is ushered in by violence in Gaza and a struggling global economy, the importance of globalization and the global civil society cannot be emphasized enough.

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Microsoft's major business divisions and competitive market position

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is a major global publisher of software, a major video game hardware manufacturer. The company also has a services function as well. Microsoft markets its operating systems to computer manufacturers and its software to the corporate, institutional and consumer markets.

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