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.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is an international organization consisting of 67 members, coming from both within and outside the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on development, poverty, education, and improving the quality of life of the people of the region. ADB works with various partners to attempt …
The Asian financial crisis, which led to a wave of currency depreciations and economic recession among many east Asian economies, started in Thailand during the summer of 1997. Thailand, Indonesia, and Korea were the most affected, while Malaysia and the Philippines were affected at a lower, but nonetheless …
Asian tigers as a term originally referred to the four economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea (South), and Taiwan, which are all known for their very high growth rates and rapid industrialization following Japan from the late 1960s onward. Although usually reserved for the original four economies, the …
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, known also under the acronym of APEC, is an international forum created in 1989 in order to enhance commercial and economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region by facilitating economic development, trading exchanges, and investments. APEC’s members now include 21 countries of the Pacific Rim: the …
Assicurazioni Generali is one of the leading financial services group providers of insurance products and services in Europe. With a presence in about 40 countries through 331 subsidiaries, the group primarily operates in Italy, where it is the largest insurance company, followed by Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, …
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established on August 8, 1967, with an initial membership of five countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Thailand. Its formal establishment was announced by the Bangkok Declaration. The association has subsequently expanded to include Brunei (1984), Vietnam (1995), Laos …
The Anglo-French term ATA Carnet is derived from Admission Temporaire/Temporary Admission. Carnet is a French word long used in English to refer to particular customs documents, presumably resulting from the frequent trade between the United Kingdom and France. Specifically, a carnet is a customs document that allows the …
The history of AT&T provides an interesting dialectic of how a firm is created and severely wounded by technology; is aided and hindered by regulation; welcomes and hides from competition; and uses and abuses shareholder and market valuations. On February 14, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell’s patent on the …
Attitudes could be regarded as the categorization of a stimulus object along an evaluative dimension based upon three general classes of information: (a) cognitive information; (b) affective/emotional information; and/ or (c) information concerning past behaviors or behavioral intentions. In this sense, attitudes are evaluations. They denote a person’s …
The Austrian Traded Index (ATX) is the most important market index of Austria’s Wiener Börse, also known as the Vienna Stock Exchange, itself one of the most important exchanges in eastern Europe. Almost half of the stock trades in Austria are over-the-counter trades, with the remainder handled on …
Auditing standards are professional guidelines promulgated either by an authorized national or international body. Any standards are based on the universally or generally adopted practices, which should serve as guidelines for auditors undertaking audit. They are usually distilled through years of practice and are of such quality that …
The only nation to occupy a continent, Australia is a country of approximately 21.5 million people (2008 estimate) and had a gross domestic product in nominal dollars that ranked 14th in the world in 2007. Although less populous than Romania, Australia occupies an area approximately 80 percent the …
This European country has a population of 8.3 million (2007), and a land area of 83,872 square kilometers. Although now a relatively small country, historically it was a dominant power in central Europe with Austria and then the Austro-Hungarian Empire being one of the major economic, political, and …
Aviva is a relatively new transnational corporation that started its international expansion during the last decade through a series of mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances such as bancassurance joint ventures. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, Aviva is the world’s fifth-largest insurance group, has 57,000 employees, and serves around …
AXA is a France-based financial holding company that specializes in financial protection, insurance, and asset management products and services. It has grown to become one of the world’s leading insurance companies, occupying a leading position in France (market share: 10 percent at the end of 2007), the United …
The verbal translation of a document or a questionnaire has two principal methods—forward translation and backward translation. While forward translation is a method to convert a document or a questionnaire from the source language to the target (foreign) language, the back translation method is used for translating the …
Bahrain is a small Arab state (665 sq. km; estimated population 508,573 in 2007) situated in the Persian Gulf. It is an archipelago consisting of two main islands, Bahrain and Al Muharraq, and more than 30 smaller islands. The country’s economy depends on processing crude oil, manufacturing, financial …
The balance of goods and services, also known as the trade balance, is part of the Current Account (CA) balance in a nation’s Balance of Payments (BoP) statistics. This net measure of a country’s position with respect to trade in goods and services is a widely cited statistic …
The banana wars were an eight-year trade dispute between the European Union (EU) and the United States that started in 1993. It escalated to include sanctions on the import of a range of other products. By 2008 it still had not been fully resolved. The European Economic Community …
An international financial institution, headquartered in Spain and with operations in over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, North and Latin America, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) offers personal banking, loans and mortgages, insurance, investment banking, asset management, and wholesale banking. The bank was born from the merger of …
