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.
Uncertainty is a fact of organizational life, and all organizations develop mechanisms for coping with it. However, not all organizations behave alike in their effort to avoid perceived uncertainty. According to Geert Hofstede, this is because uncertainty avoidance is a culture-dependent variable, and not all firms are embedded …
Economists and sociologists have studied economic inequality between countries, trying to understand the causes of underdevelopment. Some see it as a type of historical setback that can be overcome by passing through certain stages as developed countries have already done. Others see it as a situation characterized by …
UniCredit Group is one of the leading European banking groups, with a core business of retail banking and other related services, but also offering asset management, insurance, and leasing services. During fiscal year 2007, the Group recorded an operating income of €29,655 million, an operating profit of €13,346 …
Unilever is a modern multinational corporation employing over 180,000 people on six continents. It has research laboratories in England (Colworth and Port Sunlight), Holland (Vlaardingen), Connecticut (Trumbull), New Jersey (Englewood Cliffs), India (Bangalore), Pakistan, and in Shanghai. With gross revenues from its worldwide operations in 2005 at €40 …
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is located on the Persian Gulf and is bordered by Saudi Arabia and Oman. There are seven states that make up this Middle Eastern federation. The seven states are referred to as “emirates,” and they include Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, …
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (94,526 square miles, population 60,975,000, GDP $2.23 trillion in 2007) is an industrialized country of islands off the northwest coast of the European continent, consisting of four constituent countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. National administrative offices exist …
Charged by the United Nations (UN) to provide research into foreign direct investment and the activities of multinational corporations, the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) commenced operations in 1975. In 1992, it was disbanded and restructured as a component part of the United Nations Conference on …
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), is both a conference held every four years and an organization within the United Nations (UN). The first Conference (UNCTAD I) was held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1964, and subsequently it was institutionalized as a permanent body within the …
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) was established in 1966, with headquarters in Vienna, Austria. UNIDO became a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) in 1985. As a result, UNIDO has its own constitution and member states, and a regular budget. UNIDO works toward helping the …
United Parcel Service, Inc., a courier company using the trademark UPS, was established on August 28, 1907, in Seattle, Washington, by 19-year-old James E. “Jim” Casey (1888–1983) and his 18-year-old friend Claude Ryan. Casey’s father, Henry, an immigrant from Ireland who worked as a quartz miner, had died …
The economy of the United States is the largest of any country in the world, and was estimated to be worth $13.81 trillion in 2007. This has been generated with a relatively low rate of unemployment and high levels of research and development, funded both by government and …
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is a global technology company with a history of pioneering innovation in aerospace, aviation, helicopter design, climate control, elevator design, and hydrogen fuel cells. Founded by engineers who created new industries, UTC continues to create products that consume fewer resources and produce less emissions …
Universalism and particularism together comprise one of seven “cultural dimensions” identified by the Dutch cross-cultural researcher, Fons Trompenaars, in his book Riding the Waves of Culture. (Other dimensions include Individualism/Collectivism, Neutral/Affective, Specific/Diffuse, Achieved Status/Ascribed Status, Internal/External, and Sequential/Synchronic and some are discussed elsewhere in this encyclopedia.) Universalists and …
The term upstream has historically been used in the natural resource industry, and specifically in the oil and gas industry, to refer to activities that relate to the finding, associated development activity, and production of crude oil and natural gas or related petroleum products to the point where …
Uruguay, officially known as the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is the second-smallest country in South America, with an area of 68,036 square miles. Brazil forms its eastern and northeastern border, while Argentina bounds it on the west and northwest. In the south, Uruguay possesses slightly over 400 miles …
Begun in 1986, the Uruguay Round was the largest round of trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), with 123 countries participating. The negotiations of the Uruguay Round had a very broad agenda and included agreements pertaining to trade in agriculture, manufactured goods, services, …
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is a U.S. government agency that has been charged with the provision of technical and other assistance to developing and, more recently, transitional countries around the world. It is an independent government agency, headed by the administrator. The secretary of state …
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) handles over 40 percent of the world’s mail volume. In 2007, it delivered 212 billion pieces of mail to over 145 million addresses. With almost 37,000 retail postal outlets and a fleet of more than 210,000 vans and trucks, revenues in 2007 were …
This central Asian republic, which shares borders with Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan, has a population of 27.3 million, and covers a land area of 172,742 square miles. A landlocked country, it is one of only two countries in the world that is entirely surrounded by other …
Value added tax (VAT) is a type of tax on goods and services levied by the government in which they are sold. In some countries, such as Australia, Canada, Egypt, and New Zealand, the VAT is called a “goods and services tax” (GST). The VAT is not charged …
