Describe the company you visited (include location/ major intersection) and your overall experience. Store: I appliance store called "Coast Wholesale Appliances Vaughan." The store is located at 1748 Creditstone Rd #1, Concord between Rutherford and Jane, in the "business area" of Vaughan. Coastal Appliances is one of the largest appliance wholesalers in Canada. They have locations across the country from British Columbia to Ontario. Coastal Appliance sells refrigerators, stoves, small appliances
planning and evaluation in order to compete for limited public funds. This poses a serious challenge for many agencies that are already strapped for financial and human resources. Embedded in the risk-adverse and social conservative culture of rural Ontario, local government officials and community agency leaders that recognize the need have their hands tied despite their prominent positions. Therefore, with ‘top down’ provincial and government support (Baum et al., 52) as well horizontal support of
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont. K1N 6N5, Canada b Ivey School of Management, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada c Department of Management, School of Business, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA Abstract Consideration is given to the convergence of supply chains and sustainability. In doing so, the focus on environmental management and operations is moved from local optimization
Global Sustainability Eastman Kodak Company 2010 Annual Report TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Report Scope 3 Leadership Message 6 Company Profile 10 Goals 12 Performance Data 14 Compliance 15 Sustainability Framework 21 Governance 26 Innovation 31 Stewardship 41 Engagement 50 External Recognition 51 About the Photographs SCOPE OF REPORT SCOPE OF REPORT Kodak is pleased to present our fifth annual Global Sustainability Report, as well as our 21st public report to include health, safety and environmental
Floods are natural hazards that have shaped the landscape of our environment over thousands of years. Recently, the effect of floods has been intensified by the sustained population growth, changes in land use, and climate change with more intense rainfall patterns. The impact of these effects depends on the extent of the flood and temporal nature of their occurrence, as well as on the vulnerability and associated risk of the exposed communities and elements (infrastructure, ecosystems, etc). Most
Managing the International Value Chain in the Automotive Industry Strategy, Structure, and Culture Stefan Schmid, Philipp Grosche Table of contents Foreword Authors Acknowledgments International value chains: Current trends and future needs, as exemplified by the automotive industry 1. Internationalizationofthevaluechainintheautomotiveindustry 2. Configurationandcoordinationascrucialdimensionsinshapinginternational valuechains 3. Bestpracticesandoptionsformanagingtheinternationalvaluechain
ECS8C_C01.qxd 22/10/2007 11:54 Page 597 CASE STUDIES ECS8C_C01.qxd 22/10/2007 11:54 Page 598 ECS8C_C01.qxd 22/10/2007 11:54 Page 599 Guide to using the case studies The main text of this book includes 87 short illustrations and 15 case examples which have been chosen to enlarge specific issues in the text and/or provide practical examples of how business and public sector organisations are managing strategic issues. The case studies which follow allow the