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Quiksilver's growth from specialty surfwear to global sportswear leader

Founded in 1976, Quiksilver, Inc. (hereinafter alternatively "the company") is headquartered Huntington Beach, California and competes in the global surf- and sports-apparel and accessories industries.

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Human resources management in multinational corporations and cultural integration

This is because most firms have been focusing on reducing costs in an effort to increase profit margins. To achieve these objectives, a number of organizations are relocating their operations overseas.

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Core principles of high performance work systems in organizations

The most valuable and mercurial asset any enterprise has is the knowledge, insight and intelligence of its employees including the immense amount of tacit and implicit knowledge each has gained over decades of experience.

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Secularism and its role in modern politics

One of the most important and disruptive political and social movements of the last three centuries has been the push towards the secularization of the public sphere, but it has been frequently misunderstood by its proponents and critics alike.

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Challenges to Puritan theocracy in seventeenth-century American colonies

The Puritans who arrived in America in 1630 were on a mission to build a -city upon a hill- as an example of what could be done in a society committed to Gods laws. In the first century of settlement, however, the challenges that they encountered compromised aspects of their mission.

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Media coverage, money, and ideology in the 2012 presidential election

The diverse and sometimes ugly stories, attacks and sundry reports that have been published in print and broadcast in the media (including electronic media) thus far in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election campaign reflect just how divided the nation is.

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Globalization's role in triggering recent financial crises

Does globalization impact in triggering recent economic recession? The current financial crisis will be remembered as one of the most serious in the history of world capitalism.

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Strategic position and financial challenges of Huntington Ingalls Industries

The report uses STEEPL analysis to determine the external factors affecting the company performance. The report has been able to reveal that the U.S. government is the only major customer of Huntington Ingalls and the state of the U.S. economy has affected the financial performance of the company.

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Fetal alcohol syndrome: causes, diagnosis, and interventions

The problems related to fetal alcohol syndrome would seem on the surface to be ones that could be mostly be solved with ample medical research backed by good public information for women.

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Attachment theory and grief: Bowlby, Ainsworth, and continuing bonds

Understanding attachment theory as applied in the study of grief and bereavement in adults require a thorough reading of one of the theory's pioneers, John Bowlby.

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