Category: Business Essay Examples
See our collection of business essay examples. These example essays are to help you understanding how to write essays on business-related topics. The word “business” can refer to a particular organization or to an entire market sector (for example: “the financial sector”) or to the sum of all economic activity (“the business sector“). Compound forms such as “agribusiness” represent subsets of the concept’s broader meaning, which encompasses all activity by suppliers of goods and services. Also, see our list of business essay topics to find the one that interests you.
For generations, the name Ireland has been almost synonymous with emigration, but in recent decades that image has drastically changed. From the 17th century onward, religious intolerance and economic conditions combined to disperse people from Ireland across five of the world’s continents. The first major exodus consisted of …
The Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) National 100 Index tracks the movement of 100 stocks on the ISE. The ISE is the only securities market in Turkey, established in 1986 to provide a market for equities, bonds, real estate certificates, and foreign and international securities. Three hundred twenty Turkish …
Israel is a world leader in technologically advanced products and services. Growth has been impressive in recent years, and macroeconomic policy has been well managed. However, significant structural problems need to be addressed in order for Israel to reach its full economic potential. Israel is a highly open, …
Italy is a country of southern Europe comprising 20 regions. It is one of the largest economies in Europe, and in the world. Its growth rates are consistently among the highest in the European Community. Italy’s economic growth has been characterized, since the political unification in 1861, by …
The Jakarta Composite Index is the major stock market index for the Jakarta Stock Exchange. The Batavia Effectenbeurs had been established on December 14, 1912, under the Dutch trading in shares of companies involved in rubber, tin, pepper, and the like. It was closed during World War I, …
With a GDP of $4.417 trillion in 2007, Japan is the second-largest economic power and the second most important consumer market in the world. Japan was an island country completely closed to all Western influences until the 1850s. But after opening itself to the West in 1853, Japan …
Job enrichment arises with the inherent need of employees to be satisfied with their jobs and the tasks that need to be accomplished. Mundane and repetitive tasks and routines might lead employees to lose interest in their jobs and subsequently become dissatisfied and lose morale. Similarly, job content …
Johnson & Johnson is a global firm active in the consumer healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices and diagnostics sectors with a long history dating back to 1886. At that time, the company’s founders—Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson, and Edward Mead Johnson—developed a product based on a premise …
Somewhere between the competitiveness or indifference of autonomy and the border erasure of a merger is a joint venture, a business entity created by two or more parties (generally other businesses) that contribute an economic stake. Joint ventures are more than just agreements between cooperating companies; the venture …
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is situated in the Middle East (Southwest Asia) and occupies an important strategic position. It shares land and water (Gulf of Aqaba) borders with Israel (including the West Bank) to the west. It borders on Syria to the north, Iraq to the northeast, …
One of the oldest financial firms in the world, JPMorgan Chase and Co. originated as New York Chemical Manufacturing Company, which was established in 1823. The next year, it became involved in banking services and began the Chemical Bank of New York. It functioned as an independent organization …
Kaizen is the Japanese term for continuous improvement and refers to Japanese management practices that aim to lead a company to higher quality and superior performance. The philosophy of Kaizen was popularized in the West by Masaaki Imai in his book about Kaizen, which created worldwide interest in …
The Kanban system is a version of just-in-time (JIT) inventory management developed by Taiichi Ōno, who initiated his experiments in organizing the flow of production on the shop floor at Toyoda Spinning and Weaving, carrying over his ideas to Toyota Motors. Informing JIT is the supermarket principle. To …
The largest of the central Asian countries, and the ninth-largest country in the world, with a population of over 15.3 million (2008) in a land area of 2,724,900 sq. km, Kazakhstan was a part of the Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union until independence in 1991. It …
Keiretsu refers to the Japanese form of corporate organization that involves a grouping or family of affiliated firms that form a tightknit alliance and work to each other’s mutual benefit. They became prevalent after World War II, prior to which the industries were co trolled by large family-controlled …
The Sahara Desert accords the continent of Africa a natural geographical divide into two distinct regions: the northern sub-region and the southern sub-region, also called sub-Saharan Africa. The northern sub-region comprises the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, and Western Sahara. The southern sub-region …
The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI), recently renamed the Bursa Malaysia, was introduced on the Malaysian Stock Exchange in 1986 to provide a performance indicator for the share prices similar to those that exist on other stock exchanges. Under the British, the colonial power in Malaya (as it …
The owner of Koç Holding, Vehbi Koç (1901–96), started his first company in 1926 and later established Koç Holding in 1963 by gathering all his companies together. Employing around 94,000 people and with the largest dealership network in Turkey, Koç Holding currently has operations in automotive and consumer …
South Korea, whose official name is the Republic of Korea (ROK), is economically the fourth-largest in Asia, following Japan, China, and India, and 13th-largest in the world based on 2007 data. It is now an Asia-Pacificn Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member, …
Although very small in territory, Kuwait occupies an extremely important place in global geopolitical and economic discussions because of its natural resources. Kuwait has the world’s fifth-largest proven oil reserves and, as such, is the fourth-richest (in per capita income) country in the world. Its importance has grown …
