Why does, and why should the law recognise some workers as employees and not others, and what is the effect of such recognition or lack of it?
New patterns of flexible non-standard working characterised by a trinity of ‘casualisation, externalisation and informalisation1’ have superseded the 1950s-1980s’ Fordist notion of the ‘standard employee2’ which was ‘the conceptual foundation on which post-war risk sharing …
Read moreA business analysis of Tesco, including SWOT, PESTLE and Porter’s Five Forces
The world of retail has a number of leading brands and Tesco occupies the pride of place as one of the top retailers. It operates 2,318 stores and employs around 3,26,000 people. Tesco UK has …
Read moreEmployment Futures in Silicon Valley
PART 1 Research and Evidence: With increasing technological advancement and developments taking place, the industry mix of Silicon Valley has evolved. In recent years there has been a shift in employment share from hardware industries …
Read moreA study of consumer behaviour in Germany and the implications for the development of an international marketing strategy for UK fashion retailers
Research context A by-product of globalisation is the emergence of global brands competing for global market dominance. An ever growing number of brands are expanding by entering and trying to establish themselves in foreign countries. In …
Read moreCustomer relationship management and complaint handling – Norwich Union
Introduction Customer Relationship Management, like all the other marketing faculties, is created to achieve one of the most important objectives of creating competitive advantage. Now Vargo and Lusch (2007) argue that ‘the only true source of …
Read moreAn analysis of risk on investing $10m in high grade corporate bonds
Set-up As a portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) division, I was given 10 million USD to invest in a mix of high grade corporate bonds and Treasury securities. The following bonds …
Read moreA paper reviewing the production of optically active pharmaceutical compounds
Molecules that are non-super imposable mirror images of one another are termed as chiral. These are a pair of enantiomers and are diasymmetric as well as optically active. Since they promote optical rotation, these enantiomers …
Read moreWhat are the Challenges facing the Risk and Insurance Sector?
The challenges facing the risk and insurance sector should be set against the background of the past decade and a half. One phrase that could describe this period is ‘sweeping change’. Some of the features …
Read moreA Paired report on PeerDB and PIER Systems.
Summary PeerDB is a distributed data sharing system that distinguishes itself from the traditional P2P database systems by providing data management facilities like content-based searching. Various distributed systems today need a system that will enable them …
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