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Management across cultures
Management practices and processes frequently differ across national and regional boundaries. This book examines why these differences exist and how global managers can develop strategies and tactics to deal with them. What may be acceptable managerial behaviour in one culture may be counterproductive or even unacceptable in another. As managers increasingly find themselves working across cultures, the need to understand these differences has become increasingly important.
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Get online for free
Enterprise UK, Google & e-skills, with the support of the Department for Business Innovation & Skills, are working together to help Getting British Business Online, and they are aiming to get 100,000 businesses online with their first website for free, during 2010.
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Call for higher carbon price
The Environmental Audit Commission (EAC) has published its third report on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), in which it calls for moves to support a higher price for carbon. The main argument focuses on the over-allocation of carbon allowances in Phase I of the ETS, surpluses being carried over into Phase II which has combined with the economic recession to encourage business-as-usual.
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Young and enterprising?
Enterprising Young Brits Awards , run by Enterprise UK , in partnership with the Daily Mail , the Institute of Directors and the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, is now open for entries from young entrepreneurs aged 30 and under who have grown their own idea, exploited and opportunity, or developed a new way of doing things.
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Big companies pushing suppliers
According to ClimateWire , the number of corporations pushing greenhouse gas
emissions reporting and reduction strategies onto their suppliers is quickly
growing and will likely triple in the next five years, according to a new survey
by a U.K.-based nonprofit.
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A new agenda from business leaders
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has launched Vision 2050, a study that lays out a pathway leading to a global population of some 9 billion people living well, within the resource limits of the planet by 2050. The report, released at the World CEO Forum in New Delhi, India, was compiled by 29 leading global companies representing 14 industries.
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Business Going Green
The Lessons Learned Series Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from
around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find
out--with Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this new series
offers twelve to fourteen insightful essays by top leaders in business, the
public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced.
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Research cash for low carbon cars
The Technology Strategy Board has announced that it is making is launching a competition with up to £19m available to invest in innovative, industry-led collaborative research, development and demonstration in the field of low and ultra low carbon vehicles. The Technology Board expect to support three to six projects.
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Cut Carbon, Cut Costs
Small and medium-sized firms are being encouraged to take advantage of a free online tutorial aimed at helping them improve their energy efficiency. Government-funded environmental agency the Carbon Trust’s new Cut Carbon, Cut Costs video tutorial offers a whole host of handy hints on slashing energy costs and saving money.
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Business measuring climate impacts
ClimateBiz.com reports that more than 50 global businesses, including Kraft
Foods, IKEA, Ford, GE and SC Johnson, are measuring the greenhouse gas emissions
of their products and entire supply chains with two new standards from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Initiative.
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Final Deadline Approaching For Tourism Fund
Time’s almost up for tourism businesses in Scotland to apply for support from a scheme offering match funding and consultancy. The final application round of Scottish Enterprise’s Tourism Innovation Fund closes on 28 January 2010.
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Easier, cheaper, greener pot hole repairs
Thanks to Nu-phalt of Rosyth, the road repair industry looks set to be made greener. Not only does their system reduce the amount of materials, energy and labour for road repairs, it means less inconvenience for road users as these repairs are more resilient.
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Family business more profitable than corporates
A report in the McKinsey Quarterly suggest that family business do better than larger corporates over time. They face different challenges from expansion and in maintaining creativity levels but the evidence suggests that they do indeed do well.
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Who or what is the most ethical in our shops
The 8th annual edition of The Good Shopping Guide reveals a huge disparity in
corporate social responsibility standards in UK consumer goods companies. The
research covers everything from banks to butter and uses several ethical
criteria including armaments involvement, animal welfare, boycott calls, carbon
emissions, child labour, corporate corruption, environmental impact, ethical
accreditation, fair and un-fair trade, human rights abuse, nuclear power,
political donations, pollution, rainforest timber and third world debt.
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Thrift Shift
Envirowise has just published a report on the recession and resource efficiency in business in the UK.
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Copenhagen Business Day
Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) led a meeting between business leaders and ministers from developed and developing countries at which WBCSD President Bjorn Stigson issued a stark warning to the ministers: "You will not solve climate change without business at the table as an engaged, involved partner - Governments cannot deliver on the targets which are being talked about without business."
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Scottish Company wins Carbon Trust Award
Scottish technology developer Artemis Intelligent Power, based in Edinburgh, has been named overall winner of this year’s Carbon Trust Innovation Awards by an independent panel of renowned clean technology-experts.
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Business Tackling Climate Change on the Ground
The relationship between land use and climate change is highlighted in corporate case studies included in a new report, entitled "Tackling climate change on the ground", released today by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development .
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Scorecard for Business Leaders
Want to track how the negotiations at Copenhagen are likely to affect the business community? Business think tank 3C has launched a score card for companies to chart any progress that might be made.
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Copenhagen Business Day
Copenhagen is going to be a very busy place over the next few weeks, although not just with political leaders and their representatives. Business leaders are also holding their own events to explore and firm out their options over the next few years.
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Business leading the way
Scotland's business community has its own leading lights that champion the cause of sustainability and a number of these were recognised in the 2009 Vision on Business and the Environment Scotland awards (VIBES) last week at the Scottish Parliament
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Free carbon accounting package
Best Foot Forward launched the latest free version of their carbon accounting and risk management software package on 26 November 2009, with two versions, Standard and 10:10.
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Getting plugged in
The UK Government is inviting cities and businesses to join together to bid for £30 million which will help fund the installation of charging points on streets, car parks and in commercial, retail and leisure facilities. This initiative – called Plugged-In Places – will support the development of between three and six electric car cities and regions across the UK which will act as trailblazers for electric car technology.
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NCWE Awards 2009
The National Council for Work Experience Awards 2009/10 is now open for entries.
The awards are open for companies who have provided undergraduates with
work experience placements, summer placements or even voluntary
opportunities.
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Stockholm Industry Water Awards
Nominations are now open for the 2010 Stockholm Industry Water Award. This award recognises contributions by businesses in any industry or sectors to sustainable water management.
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M&S and Sainsburys named greenest supermarkets
M&S and Sainsbury's have been named the greenest supermarkets in Britain. Both were awarded an A grade for the first time in biennial reports conducted by Customer Focus on supermarket sustainability.
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Business get the green VIBE
The Vision in Business and the Environment Scotland Awards 2009 are reaching their climax with final judging currently underway. Only the very best companies emerge from the scrutiny of the judges, following shortlisting, site visits, reviews and final assessment by indenpendent experts.
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Save money - it's your business
Defra launched a new campaign on 4 November 2009 at the WRAP annual conference aimed at encouraging business in the UK to save up to £6.4 billion through resource efficiency.
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Health work and wellbeing challenge fund
The UK government has announced a new £4 million grant scheme, The Health Work and Wellbeing Challenge Fund. The funding is available over two years to support small and medium sized businesses carry out new initiatives to boost staff health and welfare.
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Climate challenge to business
Climate change is the biggest challenge facing the world today. Yet, despite the fact that it will significantly impact every organisation and every region, our collective response is not yet commensurate with the scale of the problem.
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Recession and the drive to cut costs
It is widely reported that business gobally has been making across the board savings to try and stay competitive during the recession. Many are arguing that this has lacked sophistication and insight leading to even greater worries.
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The poor hold the key for business success
Five years ago, C.K. Prahalad published a book titled, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, in which he argues that multinational companies not only can make money selling to the world's poorest, but also that undertaking such efforts is necessary as a way to close the growing gap between rich and poor countries.
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New guidance on measuring GHG emissions
Defra and DECC have published new guidance on how to measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and how to reduce emissions that are identified.
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Carbon reduction: a risky business?
The business sector holds a vast weight of responsibility when it comes to reducing the UK's carbon emissions. But what do companies think themselves?
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Climate Change Poll 2009
Globescan recently undertook their annual sustainability survey's pulse poll on climate change.
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Business Supports being restructured across the UK
Changes in the business support programmes for resource efficiency in England mean that there is a departure from funding and supporting individual companies.
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Extra £20million for clean technology
The clean energy technologies of the future will have access to an
extra £20 million in government-backed venture capital support, this is
the latest allocation out of the £405 million pot investment in low
carbon technologies announced in the Budget.
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The role of CEO's in sustainability
Globescan recently conducted a survey of CEO's worldwide on issues of sustainable development. The work was carried out on behalf of products manufacturing giant SC Johnson.
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Retail Myths?
Love them or loathe them, the british retail industry is rarely out of the news, all too often for the wrong reasons. The British Retail Consortium has set out to dispel the "myths" about the retail industry, partcularly in terms of its role in climate change and the environment.
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Recession reduces CO2
The world recession has caused the steepest drop in CO2 emissions for 40 years, according to the International Energy Agency's chief IEA economist Fatih Birol.
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New Business Resource Efficiency Research
Just published by the Sustainable Development Research Network is a new report into business and resource efficiency in the UK.The report calls for more to be done to engage small and medium sized
enterprises (SMEs) with resource efficiency and suggests that
intermediary organisations, such as banks, need to promote the agenda
further.
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JAMStudio wins award
North-east architectural design business, JAMstudio, has received the Socially Responsible Company of the Year Award at the Northern Star Business Awards, the flagship event of Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce. Fetternear-based JAMstudio, owned by husband and wife John Wingate and Marie-Louise Dunk, was given the honour in recognition of its work in support of the community, in particular its leading role in the refurbishment of community facilities at Peterhead Harvest Community Church.
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News on water charging
The Water Industry Commission for Scotland has published its draft limits for the prices that Scottish Water can charge its customers for water services from April 2010 until March 2015.
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Marketing for local food
A while back Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) produced a guide on marketing for local food to assist producers to sell their wares. It might be worth checking it out.
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Business Environment Partnership training days
The Business Environment Partnership has a rolling programme of seminars and networking events for businesses, with reduced rates for members. They can also offer bespoke onsite training on all areas of environmetnal and quality management, giving your staff the skills to develop your business.
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World's Biggest companies not doing enough
Many of the world's 100 largest companies are setting targets to cut their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but they must double the pace of action to avoid dangerous climate change, a report by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and BT has concluded. Read More About World's Biggest Companies Not Doing Enough...
Water rising to the top
Water use is climbing rapidly up the agenda of businesses and all those interested in addressing the impacts of climate change. The 2,500 water experts who gathered in Stockholm from 16-22 August issued a closing statement calling for water issues to be included in the international climate talks to take place in Copenhagen in December.
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Network Rail Announces High Speed Rail Link
Network Rail recently announced plans to introduce a high speed rail link running from London to Scotland that could see travelling times cut to just over two hours.
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Is China's consumption growing?
Many worry about the growth of the economy and consumption patterns and its impact on global sustainability. It is not necessarily all that it seems....
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Business Guide to Avoiding Greenwash
There's been a fair bit in the media recently about companies applying greenwash to their products, making eco product claims that an increasingly aware, discriminatory and sceptical public are starting to doubt. Now there is a new business guide to avoiding greenwash, which may do as much reputational damage as publicity about poor environmental practice.
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