… topics to discuss. The first step in starting a business is the business plan. Business owners must think about their financial status. They must consider how they plan on financing their business. It is essential to study all the legal issues…

… Overview: Before going deep into the market picture, let look at the big overview of water resource situation of the whole country. Supplying clean and safe drinking water is one of the most critical issues, which China has to face…

… H. Dow with the intent to manufacture and sell bleach. For over 100 years Dow has been at the forefront of technology, with success in research, innovation and manufacturing. For the next 30 years the company expanded into agricultural chemicals,…

… and Reinhard Selten were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (Crainer, 1996), business people had started to apply the game theory in the business strategy. Some people argued that game theory is well established theory, but it is too hard to…

… of business, industry, government, and education are downsizing. Downsizing is and has been a controversial phenomenon in the last few years. The controversy that surrounds downsizing may be better described as a debate in organizational theory about…

… today. That structure is labeled Total Quality Management (TQM). This approach involves guaranteeing that an organization functions with a commitment to quality and continuous improvement in meeting its consumer's needs. With any type of change…

… disregarding ethics are bad decisions. It leads to nothing but trouble. Example: Enron, the decision that the CEO and others made regarding the manipulation of financial records is just unethical. They chose to mislead investors no matter the consequence…

… can gain a competitive advantage, it is useful to model the firm as a chain of value creating activities. For this purpose, Porter identified a range of interrelated generic activities common to a wide range of firms. The resulting model is known…

… is one of expeditious change. National economies, previously secluded from other nations by trade barriers, physical distance, time zones, different languages and culture, differences in government policy, and business practices are now merging.…

… to gather pace all aspects of management have to be seen in a global context. This is especially true for corporate strategy. Even if an organization does not plan to import or to export directly, management has to look at the international business…