Walmart

Organizational structure varies from one organization to another. Organizations with flat structure usually have a wide p of control; those with tall structure have narrow p of control. Organizations with strong or cohesive vertical type of authority structure are usually centralized; those with weak authority structure are decentralized. Although these are just hypotheses, there is […]

Wal-Mart: Ethical or Unethical? Almost everyone living in North America undoubtedly knows what Wal-Mart is and has already conceived some sort of opinion, whether it is good or bad. On one hand people complain that they are ruining competition, they are treating their employees’ terribly or that they are given extreme unfair advantages that no […]

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , is an icon of American business. From small-town business to multinational, from hugely controversial to a leader in renewable energy, Wal-Mart has long been a lightning rod for news and criticism. With 2008 sales of over $405. 6 billion and more than two million employees worldwide, the world’s largest public corporation […]

One of the foremost advantages of Wal-Mart is due to its management’s keen understanding of substitutes. In a market that has quick changing needs, Wal-Mart has constantly been threatened by the collective substitutes such as grocers, drug stores and other retail stores. The presence of these other substitutes creates a small yet viable threat to […]

Foreign Direct Investment Wal-Mart – ASDA Wal-Mart is an American company, based in Arkansas, USA that runs large discount department stores. The company was started in 1945 when Sam Walton open a store in Arkansas, the premise behind the company was to slightly undercut its competitors while still making a profit. This idea proved a […]

Although it was several years ago now, in 1988 a 24-year old man was injured at his local Wal-Mart store after tripping over several rocking chairs. The man claims that as he turned the corner of an aisle he tripped over three 1. 5 foot-high children’s rocking chairs, which caused several injuries, some of which […]

Wal-Mart basically takes care of its strategic management by expanding customer base and selling at lower prices than competitors. Hence it is not surprising that the company has been reported to be practicing predatory pricing (Wikipedia, 2007). This is evident in being market share in the US and its presence on many countries of the […]