Abstract
This paper discusses the situation confronting American commercial aviation unions as they face the obstacles presented by a global economy and by increased deregulation at all levels. The paper examines the general impact and repercussions of globalization upon airline unions in America and in other parts of the world and looks also at special strengths US organized labor in the airline industry possesses which will allow it to endure the dislocation possible job migrations and global interconnectedness of a global marketplace.

From the Paper
"Specifically, the following paper will examine the globalization phenomenon in broad detail as it applies to the airline industry as a whole (both foreign and domestic) and argue that American unions are actually fairly well-situated to survive the vicissitudes of the new global order because of their relative political savvy and technical expertise as well as because their long experience in an industry characterized by deregulation has left them better prepared."

Tags:unions, aviation, industry

Abstract
The paper relates that the use of the Internet for commercial purposes has sparked an ethical debate over intellectual property rights (IPR). The paper looks at digital rights management (DRM) and discusses how it does not offer as much protection as open digital rights management systems (ODRM). The paper explains that ODRM provides not only product protection but also monitors the distribution and use of digital products.

From the Paper
"Historically, a business's physical assets are not threatened by the Internet. However, with the growing need to automate and invest resources into Internet commerce, asset management is entering an entirely different realm of risk assessment and quality control (Brandwein, 2003). The Internet encompasses a great deal of resources; Technical, Social, Legal and Physical (Ianella, 2001). Thus, businesses have to reinvent operational models to include Internet operations and business transactions. It is necessary then for businesses to secure licenses on digital property, whether that license protects a physical property (such as a book) transferred to the Internet as an electronic resource, or an electronic document or product (software or E-books)."

Tags:asset, management, product, digital, electronic, assets, piracy, redistribution

Abstract
This paper presents a plan for Deere & Company, a leading producer of equipment for agriculture and forestry and a major producer of equipment for lawn and turf care and construction, which would allow the company to maintain a competitive edge in the marketplace without compromising the profitability of the company. The paper suggests that the best way to do this is by instituting a lean supply program and explains how to do this.

Introduction
Competitive Markets and Focusing on Customers
Rapidly Changing Products and Multiple Products in a Supply Chain
Development of Long-Term Relationships with Suppliers
Pressure on Costs
Conclusion

From the Paper
"In the current volatile business climate, it is difficult enough to deploy resources properly from incoming materials to outgoing product in manufacturing small and disposable goods. The problem is magnified several times when the products in question are both durable goods and are marketed simultaneously to two different constituencies, consumers and commercial buyers. That is the case, however, with Deere & Company's Commercial & Consumer Equipment (C&CE) division."

Tags:supply, chain, professional, integration, improvement, initiatives, reduced, operating, expenses

Abstract
This paper discusses the theory of contract and provides a review of contemporary legal contract theories, the relation between contract law and trust and how important lawyers are in contract law for promoting trust in commerce. The paper shows how contracts are the primary business instrument used to transact commercial exchanges in the United States and abroad today. The paper concludes that contract law serves as a bastion of last resort because people will tend to behave in ways that maximize their self-interests at the expense of others.

Outline:
Introduction
Review and Discussion
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Before examining any regulation of contracts, though, Collins (1999) suggests that it is important to gain some concept of a typical contractual relation itself: "This relation plainly differs from other types of human association, such as those found between friends, neighbors, members of a club, and between members of a family. Such an investigation of the social institution of contract presents a considerable problem, because the idea of contract possesses a confusing surplus of meanings" (p. 13). On the one hand, Black's Law Dictionary (1990) defines a contract as "An agreement between two or more parties which creates an obligation to do or not to do a particular thing. As defined in Restatement, Second, Contracts, Section 3, 'A contract is a promise or a set of promises for the breach of which the law gives a remedy, or the performance of which the law in some way recognizes as a duty'" (p. 322)."

Tags:trust, commerce, exchanges, promises

Abstract
This paper explains that mySAP.com consists of three components: the Marketplace, a website where both buyers and sellers first register themselves and then trade with each another; the Workplace, software, which sets up access to all of the systems that is being used in the company; and mySAP.com, also considered to be the umbrella name for all of SAP's Internet-enabled applications. The paper points out that e-marketplaces and trading exchanges, which are promoted by this business, have increased on the Internet from a varied range of industries. The paper concludes that the Commerce One alliance with SAP Markets strengths the company's delivery of the B2B infrastructure because SAP's global expertise in business applications makes it a powerful and noteworthy company.

Table of Contents
What is mySAP.com?
Overview on mySAP.com
Personalization
Collaboration
Solutions on Demand
The Prototypical Implementation Approach
Solution-oriented Prototypes
Potential Benefits from mySAP.com
Analysis and Overview on the Potential Benefits from mySAP.com
B2B Marketplaces
Marketplace Applications
Business Directory
Business Document Exchange
Business-to-Business Procurement (BBP)
mySAP.com Marketplace Business Communities
Dynamic Pricing
Requests for Quotation and Proposal
Collaborative Planning and Forecasting
Distributor Reseller Management (DRM)
Difficulties for Companies to Select mySAP.com
Conclusion
Key Words

From the Paper
"Thus, this approach permits to create an operational and completely documented prototype in simply a few days time. It replicates both incoming and outgoing information from business associates, for instance, scanning in an EDI object or an XML document with the organization's sales information. In the course of the implementation project, you can quickly adapt the contents to meet specific requirements. Also, this can be more easily achieved by using joint business process through linkage company's systems with partner solutions."

Tags:b2b, commercial, trading, linkage

Abstract
The paper examines the concept that organizational culture is emerging as one of the greatest single management dimensions. The paper argues that corporate culture has become not only beneficial, but necessary due to the increasing prevalence of globalism as a financial, economic and commercial world system. The paper explores how the current role of culture in organizations is actually a managerial role within a corporation's leadership structure and one that must monitored, fostered and actively developed. The paper concludes that organizational culture can be managed, should be managed, and is being managed in novel and proactive ways across the globe.

Outline:
Introduction
Organizational Culture
Global Influence on Organizational Culture
Conclusions

From the Paper
"This rise in importance of organizational culture as primary competitive differentiator has come about because of and within the framework of the global economy. For, as the literature attests, and Balmer and Wilson make clear, "An important prerequisite for a corporate reputation to contribute to business survival and success is that it offers a distinct advantage in relation to the organization's external environment..."(par.3). In other words, organizational culture is uniquely related to its reputation, its financial success and its externally oriented interactions with the marketplace."

Tags:leadership, human, resources, teams, competition, success, global, marketplace

Abstract
This paper considers three different aspects of the technology and political marketplace that have negatively affected Latin American music sales and, in particular, the effect that pirated music is having on the industry. The paper then looks at the future of Latin American popular music and the Latin American recording industry and presents solutions and recommendations to rebuild, improve, and expand the Latin American industry.

The Future of Latin American Popular Music
The Future of The Latin American Recording Industry
Reconstructing the Industry
Music Delivery
Anti Piracy Efforts

From the Paper
"However, in the music industry, the creation of the internet and the capabilities to deliver individual songs digitally and globally has changed that perspective as well. The creation of a global economy and improved communication systems has facilitated the worldwide dissemination of mass culture. Specifically, trends in Latin America are now becoming part of the Latino population in the central and North American regions. Hence, the market for Latin American music, and the path toward improving the profitability of the Latin American music industry should also consider the North American markets a part of their potential customer base."

Tags:artists, producers, revenue, investment, distributing, piracy, recording, commercial

Abstract
The paper provides an overview of the FedEx corporation and their advertising and promotional activities. The paper includes tables that provide a financial analysis of FedEx's performance and an overview of market share data. The paper concludes that due to the company's quick and accurate overnight deliveries and their ability to synchronize integrated marketing campaigns, the momentum in the global logistics marketplace is on their side today.

Outline:
Introduction
Overview of FedEx Corporation
Advertising and Promotional Activities of FedEx Corporation
Advertising's Effect of Company Performance

From the Paper
"One of the strategic strengths of FedEx Kinko's is their well-known and highly respected brand, which is continually accentuated and reinforced through the creative use of advertising campaigns. FedEx Corporation has been consistently recognized by Fortune Magazine that their brand is one of the top ten in the world every year (Elmer-DeWitt, Birger, Colvin, Quittner, Taylor, Boyle, Hira, Murphy, Simons, McLean, Schlosser, Gimbel, Gumbel, Kapner, Schknder, Fortt., 2008). By relying on a highly integrated series of marketing campaigns that further support their unique value proposition (Anderson, Narus, Rossum, 2006) of being synonymous with speed and trusted delivery of important documents, packages, even cars or containers, the FedEx brand has entered the mainstream lexicon of many countries as part of their everyday language (Christensen, Cook, Hall, 2005) and (Dick, 2004)."

Tags:marketing, commercials

Abstract
This paper explains that, because the forests of central America's western Pacific plains were cleared long ago for export crops and subsistence agriculture, the deforestation which has taken place in the last 50 years has been most severe in the lowland tropical moist forests of the Atlantic, or the Caribbean side of central America. The author points out that Panama has a wide range of environmental protection policies in place which are designed to address the impact of human habitation and land-use techniques and to emphasize environmental education and extension programs. The paper concludes that, because of the competition from multi-national businesses, which are not concerned about the environment, "green" businesses must develop effective business models to survive the rigors of the marketplace as well as the extremes of nature, which effect commercial forestation businesses. Many tables and charts. Annotated bibliography.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Deforestation and Agricultural Expansion
Background and Overview
Distribution of Panama's Forest Lands and Rates of Deforestation
Land Use Changes
Causes of Deforestation
Consequences of Deforestation
Impact on Agriculture and Supply
Climate Changes
Human Health
Forest Management in Panama
Signs of Progress
The Economic Value of Forest Benefits and Services
Deforestation and Property Rights
Findings and Discussion
Panama's Environment and the Components of its Eco-System
Economical and Social Consequences of Deforestation in Panama
The Climate Affected by the Loss of Forests
Forest Policies and the Existing Instruments to Conserve the Forest Areas
Ecological Viability of a Business in the Production Process, Beneficiary and Commercialization
Business Contribution

From the Paper
"As a result of the enactment of a land tenure system in 1962, some small farmers in Panama have managed to acquire some land; nevertheless, by late in the 20th century fewer than one-third of all farms were owned by the people working them. The most common agricultural products include sugarcane, bananas, rice, plantains, corn (maize), and oranges, and the commercial cultivation of these and other crops increased considerably during the 20th century. Livestock raising (cattle, pigs, and poultry) is an important and long-established economic activity, and beef and hides are exported. The country's largest cattle-raising farms are in the southwestern savannas-in Chiriqui, Los Santos, and Veraguas provinces. The provinces of Panama, Los Santos, Chiriqui, and Veraguas raise the most pigs, whereas Panama, Cocle, and Colon are the largest centres for poultry and egg production."

Tags:biodiversity, vanilla, climate, health, rights

Abstract
This paper provides a full-scale research both of the European automotive marketplace and the brands and products that Volvo commercializes locally. The paper investigates the customer types and the current buyer behavior. The paper also presents an analysis of Volvo's products in the marketplace, including a look at the company's competitors and the general situation on the automotive marketplace.

Outline
Executive Summary
Research
The European Automobile Market
Volvo Portfolio of Products
Consumer Types and Buying Behavior
Analysis
Product Presentation
Buyer Types vs. Product Possibility
Recommendation and Conclusions
Bibliography

From the Paper
"Ever since 1999, Volvo has been wholly owned by Ford Motor Company and has been dealing in 120 countries according to the company's website . The company's largest markets are the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Germany. As we can see from this note, the company's affiliation to Ford means an extensive production for the American market, however, the European market is certainly not negligible, with three of the top countries being European. Volvo has had a remarkable advantage throughout its history: it has always been assimilated with the concept of security. The Volvo automobile has always been, by definition, a secure vehicle and this was always the primary concern for the company's management."

Tags:motor, car, sedan, vehicle