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.
Government ownership of an industry or a formerly private company is known as nationalization. By far the more frequent of the two phenomena is government ownership of an industry. Although some authors, such as Lars Bengtsson, have argued that choice of industries is random, nationalized industries typically are …
Anyone doing business in countries outside the United States can safely assume that they will encounter government agencies regulating every direct and indirect aspect of commerce. Just as is the case in the United States, these agencies enforce regulations governing establishing a business, taxes, costs, prices, financial transactions, …
Near-shoring (also nearshoring) means moving jobs to a nearby foreign country. It is part of the “X-shoring” constellation of terms that include off-shoring (sending work to an overseas location), multishoring (sending outsourced work to several overseas locations based on the job to be done and the relevant skills …
NEC, formally known in Japan as Nippon Denki Kabushiki Gaisha, is a multinational company, head achieve that goal it provides a variety of electronics products and services to include personal computers and peripherals, computer storage, networking equipment and services, and semiconductors. It also manufactures and sells consumer goods …
Negotiation is a long-standing art that has developed into a major mode of decision making in all aspects of social, political, and business life. Negotiation may be defined as a process of potentially opportunistic interaction by which two or more parties, with some apparent conflict, seek to do …
The study of neocolonialism involves the exploration of aspects of strategic and economic dominance of former colonial dependencies. Neocolonialism highlights the fact that colonialism and imperialism do not simply have a historical dimension. Rather, the political economy of power and economic relations in some cases takes the form …
Deriving its name from mercantilism, the political economic philosophy characterized by the desire of nations to enrich themselves through the control of trade, neomercantilism is a similar philosophy modified to fit the modern world. Whereas mercantilism generally refers to the 16th through 18th centuries, neomercantilism usually is considered …
Nepotism is the favoring of an employer’s relatives and friends in the workplace. The relative or friend is hired solely on the basis of kinship, regardless of any regard for the ability to do the job. The word nepotism is derived from the Latin word nepos, which means …
Nestlé, which specializes in sales of processed food, traces its origins to the Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866. Heinrich Nestle (1814–90), the company’s founder, was born in 1814 in Frankfurt-au-Main, Germany; he was apprenticed to a pharmacist, learning how to produce chemicals and make up prescriptions. …
Net capital outflow is a situation wherein the amount of money country A invests in other countries exceeds the amount these countries invest in country A. When this happens, the net capital outflow is positive. If the opposite is the case—when the investment by other countries in country …
The Kingdom of the Netherlands is a commonwealth of three countries, formed by charter between the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba, the latter two of which originated as part of the Netherlands’ colonial empire. The Netherlands Antilles (309 sq. mi., population 225,000, gross domestic product $2.4 billion …
In 2008, students at 31 New York City high schools were offered up to $1,000 for scoring well on Advanced Placement (AP) exams. The good news is that the number of AP exams taken rose from 4,275 in 2007 to 4,620, an increase of 345. In addition, a …
There are several different frameworks by which to study the phenomenon of culture. One such framework is that developed by the research of Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner, who developed a model examining cultures along seven different dimensions. One dimension that the two authors identified was the neutral/affective …
The term newly industrialized countries (NICs) refers to a group of once-developing economies that industrialized—or are still industrializing—with an emphasis on the production and export of manufactured goods; newly industrializing economies is often taken as a synonym. The term generally applies to those countries that industrialized after World …
Associated with economists Paul Krugman and Elhanan Helpman, new trade theory makes two major points: (1) through economies of scale, trade can increase the variety of goods available to consumers and decrease the average costs of those goods, and (2) in those industries in which the output required …
The New York Convention, or to give its full title, the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, was a series of measures adopted on June 10, 1958, during a diplomatic conference organized by the United Nations (UN). They required that the courts in the …
New Zealand is a country situated in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about 2,000 km southeast of its largest neighbor, Australia, separated by the Tasman Sea. Recognized for its geographic isolation, the country’s two major islands—North and South—and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island and the Chatham Islands, …
The west African country of Nigeria was a major economic power when the British invaded and occupied parts of the country from 1861. Nigeria gained its independence in 1960. With a population of 135 million and covering 923,700 sq. km, it still dominates—politically and economically—much of west Africa. …
The Nikkei Index reflects a number that expresses the market-value-weighted average of a group of stocks. There are five Nikkei indices: the Nikkei 225, Nikkei 500, Nikkei 300, Nikkei JASDAQ, and Nikkei All Stock Index. The Nikkei 225 is the most widely tracked Japanese stock market index in …
Nippon Life Insurance Co. (Nihon Seimei Hoken Sōgo-gaisha or Nissay in Japanese) provides life insurance products to individual and corporate customers. In addition to providing life insurance and annuity products, the company engages in real estate development and management and in a variety of educational and philanthropic projects. …
