Culture Project: the Case of Aalborg Industries

3. Methodology 4 2. Different perspectives on culture 6 2.1. Functionalist perspective on culture 6 2.2. Constructivist perspective on culture 9 2.3. Danish versus Vietnamese way of working 10 2.4. HRM challenges explained through theory 11 3. Knowledge management, explicit and tacit knowledge 15 3.1. Knowledge management 15 3.2. Explicit and Tacit Knowledge 15 3.3. Knowledge management processes adopted by Aalborg Industries in Vietnam 16 3.4. Suggestions for improvement

2.3.2 The Aalborg Commitments The chronicle of Aalborg Commitments starts from the Aalborg Charter of European Sustainable Cities and Towns towards Sustainability which was signed in 1994 at Aalborg, Denmark (ICLEI, 1994). The Charter is the first European Conference discuss about sustainable urban development. The Charter inspired by the Rio Earth Summit’s Local Agenda 21 in its (Local Agenda 21) urban agenda. The charter had shifted the attention of EU countries to focus on sustainable urban development

January 6th, 2011 Expanding in the Danish market for the coffee shop chain industry – with Starbucks as an illustrative case Table of contents Figures of contents 5 Title sheet 8 1 Executive summary 9 2 Introduction – what is Starbucks? 10 2.1 Subject field 11 2.2 Problem and problem formulation 11 2.3 Project design 12 3 Methodology and theory of science 14 3.1.1 Three methodological views of Arbnor and Bjerke 14 3.1.1.1 The analytical view 15

ECCO CASE – PROJECT 1 Table of contents Table of contents Question Theory used in this report Data collection Company description Financial situation SW - Internal Value Chain R&D Production Sales and Marketing Service Core competences Benchmark Ansoff’s matrix of growth GAP-analysis OT - External Porter’s 5 forces Force 1: The degree of rivalry Force 2: The threat of new entrants Force 3: The threat of substitutes Force 4: Buyer power Force 5: Supplier power Porter’s

European civilization. Others, a minority, drew from that the conclusion that the European capability to overcome aggressive nationalism which caused those tragedies, is achievable by adopting the idea of the united and peaceful continent as a common project.[6] That inspiration was to be insured by a share of common, European distinctiveness. However, this process implies the necessity to consider the impact of nationalism and the role of national states in a growing trend for a united Europe. As Anthony

organisational theory. Whilst their writing is accessible and engaging, their approach is scholarly and serious. It is so easy for students (and indeed others who should know better) to trivialize this very problematic and challenging subject. This is not the case with the present book. This is a book that deserves to achieve a wide readership. Professor Stephen Ackroyd, Lancaster University, UK This new textbook usefully situates organization theory within the scholarly debates on modernism and postmodernism