Executive Summary This report describes how multinationals acquire companies in order to minimize risk, expand sales, and acquire resources. In particular, it discusses the General Electric Tungsram acquisition, which is a Hungarian based company, the strategies and policies they followed and pro...

Table of Contents Executive Summary page 1 – 2 Introduction 3 Main sections Culture Differences 4 - 6 Political Stability 7 - 8 Regulation 9 - 10 Customer Service 11 -12 Technology 13 Transportation 14 - 15 Conclusions 16 References...

1. IntroductionOne of the corner stones of the building of the European union has been to create a single market, where the trade is free across the union and based on the theory of comparative advantages. Harmonization of national law in the EU-member states is closely linked to this free trade tho...

Does the Public Sector Ombudsman serve a useful function. The Ombudsman's mission statement sums up what the office tries to achieve "Helping to achieve a public service which is open, fair and accountable". The job of the Ombudsman is to investigate complaints from members of the...

The Semiotics of Utopianism National Lampoon's European Vacation(1985),though almost certainly produced as "pure entertainment" in Richard Dyer's sense of the term, presents to the careful reader much more than simply ninety-five minutes of farce. Underlying nearly every scene and every...

In what ways did American silver facilitate the growth of world trade?The discovery of American silver and its subsequent influx into Europe and Asia had a significant impact on the growth of world trade, to the extent that it is accurate to say that the growth in trade at this time laid the foundat...

A Look at Germany's EconomyGermany is a country located in Central Europe with 137,326 square miles, which is approximately the size of Montana. The population of this country is 82 million. Berlin has been the national capital since October 1990. Germany's government is a democratic, federal, mult...