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Approach to corporate social responsibility management strategy: case comparison study of the United States Ford Motor Company and Germany’s BMW Group
(2020-06-05)
This paper addresses the question, “How do major institutional differences between the USA and Germany explain the dissimilarities in the way Ford and BMW implement their CSR strategies?" This thesis aims to contrast the ...
Toward agriculture 4.0: opportunities and threats of the agribusiness sector: an analysis of the risk management strategies developed by Brazilian SMEs to cope with commodity price risk
(2019-12-13)
This paper aims at demonstrating the importance of the adoption of risk management strategies by companies operating in the agribusiness sector. The future evolution of the sector requires the change of operations and the ...
Economic sustainability of indoor vertical farming in São Paulo
(2019-12-12)
Vertical farming, the practice of growing produce either vertically or in vertically stacked layers, has received growing attention from investors, media, and scholars – specially in most recent decades. Until recently, ...
Implications of digital transformation related industry evolution on the strategy of Walmart, as an example of a U.S. grocery retailer
(2019-09-30)
The thesis studies the evolution of the grocery retail industry in the United States and its impact on the strategy of established firms in that industry. It builds upon a set of strategic concepts and frameworks, most ...
Developing effective measures to implement gender diversity in the workplace
(2018-02-04)
This paper is designed to explore existing initiatives to develop a diverse workplace and propose additional measures to achieve and exploit the power of an empowered diversity, without unsettling the corporate culture. ...
'The luxury market in Brazil: an analysis of its complexity'
(2017-12-20)
The aim of the present research thesis is to investigate the luxury market in Brazil and how brand can survive in such context. All over the world this sector is becoming more and more crucial, due to many factors, such ...
Compared private equity impact investments
(2017-11-21)
This research aims to study private equity impact investments based on a comparative analysis of different private equity funds practices. In particular, it examines how the requirements of impact investing are encompassed ...
Expanding the toolkit for industry analysis: an application of the value capture concept
(2017)
The purpose of this study is to apply value-based business concepts to a product in order to gain insight into the competitive environment within its related industry. This case study is based upon qualitative information ...
Blue ocean strategy in financial services?
(2016-12-13)
The case is meant to give readers an overview about the concept of Blue Ocean Strategy. Throughout the text hints about what this strategy refers to are given. By knowing the traditional strategic concepts – those that are ...
Bringing italians SME’s to Brazil: the case of GM Venture
(2016-11-16)
The Italian business presence in Brazil has been characterizing, since years, the economic landscape of Brazil. More than 1300 Italian companies, from the biggest to the smallest one, are acting in Brazil, exploiting the ...
