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Academics, policy makers, and other specialists, let alone the general public, have a tendency to perceive the Middle East as a monolith. The truth, however, shows that it is a region filled with contrasts, extremes,…

Introduction When businesses go international, they have to face a number of issues and challenges from their external environment. The international business environment is much more complex and multifaceted than local environment. Business organizations have to deal with a number of environmental forces that directly or indirectly affect their business operations. These forces include political forces, economic forces, social, cultural, and demographical factors, technological forces, and competitive forces (Loudon, Stevens, & Wrenn, 2004).

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Motivating the sales force is often based on providing the sales force with rewards based on performance and this is an important motivational tool. At the same time, it must be recognized that for this to be effective,…

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Relationship marketing is one of the fastest growing research topics in business and marketing today. The premise of relationship marketing is very broad and includes or should include external and internal relationship building as a reciprocal factor for firm success. Successful relationship marketing, according to the literature, results in high productivity, high employee and customer satisfaction, low employee and customer attrition and ultimately high profitability and success. According to businessdictionary.com relationship marketing is defined as: Marketing activities that are aimed at developing and managing trusting and long-term relationships with larger customers. In relationship marketing, customer profile, buying patterns, and history of contacts are maintained in a sales database, and an account executive is assigned to one or more major customers to fulfill their needs and maintain the relationship (n.d.) Yet, fundamentally, this definition of relationship marketing (RM) demonstrates only one aspect of its purpose, which is ultimately for the firm to develop both internal (employee) and external (customer) relationships by building and maintaining professional and possibly even personal relationships with all members of the firm community. The defining desire of relationship marketing is to make each participating member, be it a large or even in some cases small customers, firm employees and even suppliers all feel as if they are valued and respected. The goal of relationship marketing being to make each feel important to the firm and supported in whatever way possible. This work will discuss RM in these terms, as both an internal and external tool to support firm success arguing the thesis that relationship marketing is both an external and internal component of success as well as a vital component for successful marketing of firms. To perform this analysis the work will first look at a base of literature that supports either internal or external relationship marketing or both and then use this information to investigate an existing firm which states a mission focused on both internal and external relationship marketing and reports success. The firm analyzed will report factors of success in this process using a holistic relationship marketing mission and will; report high customer and employee satisfaction, low levels of employee and customer attrition, higher productivity and higher profitability as compared to a previous mission structure.

The paper provides an analysis of a piece of art by Lorenzo Ghiberti. He was a prominent artist of the Early Renaissance period. The paper contextualizes the sculpture within the artist's life, the artistic movement, and the historical period in which he lived. The paper provides insights into the origins of the sculpture as well as the techniques used to create it.

This review of the related literature focuses on broad definitions of the law as historically legislated and then as practiced in three countries: Malaysia, Indonesia and China. Common law, civil law and socialist law…

FedEx Corporation is a logistics services company based in the United States. It was founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1971 by Frederick W. Smith and since then has grown into a multibillion-dollar company with aerial and terrestrial forces that cater to almost 6 million packages per day. The company's headquarters are currently in Memphis, Tennessee. Originally known as FDX Corporation, it was renamed to FedEx Corporation in January 2000 and all of its subsidiaries were rebranded. The name FedEx is actually an abbreviation of the company's original air division "Federal Express". FedEx Corporation allows customers and businesses the world over to choose from a wide variety of transportation, e-commerce and business services. Boasting annual revenues of $40 billion, the company offers integrated business applications under the respected FedEx brand. FedEx has consistently ranked among the world's most admired and trusted employers, and sports a massive workforce of more than 290,000 employees globally. FedEx aspires to remain positively focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of their customers and communities. (Schneider, 2008)

Downsizing has become a significant idea in today's economy and maintaining the trust of employees when something like this takes place has also become very serious business (Brockner, Konovsky, Cooper-Schneider,…