PROGRAM TITLE
MASTERS OF COMMERCE(INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS)
SUBJECT DETAILS
Subject Code
INB80010
Subject Title
INTEGRATIVE INTERANTIONAL BUSINESS PRACTICE
Lecturer’s Name
CHRISTOPHER SELVARAJ
ASSIGNMENT DETAILS
Title or Topic Addressed
CATERPILLAR INC.
Due Date
28TH MAY 2015
Date Received
28TH MAY 2015
DECLARATION
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4. No part of this assignment has been previously submitted as an assessable item, except where authorised by the lecturer concerned and where acknowledgement is made in the text;
I / We accept that electronic submission of this cover sheet will be taken as consent to the terms outlined in Points 1 to 4 of the above declaration by the student/submitting this assignment.
Student Signature(s)
Aakar Gupta
MARKER’S MAIN COMMENTS
Marker’s Signature
Date
Grade/Mark
Aakar Gupta
100008415
INTEGRATIVE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PRACTICE
ABSTRACT
Caterpillar INC is the world leader in the heavy machinery unit and operated through the globe. In the recent past the company has undergone a series of changes and have been criticized on various legal, moral and environmental issues during their operations. The study analyses the subject of Justice and Fairness with respect to Caterpillar INC and its operations in the global market. Through the usage of various current day articles, journals and databases, the subject has been deeply scrutinized and a final discussion has been done to evaluate the company’s position in the global market.
INTRODUCTION
Caterpillar Inc. is a producer of development and mining hardware, diesel and characteristic gas motors, mechanical gas turbines and diesel-electric trains. The organization works all-inclusive with real vicinity in North America, Asia Pacific and Europe. It is headquartered in Peoria, Illinois and utilized 118,501 individuals (Marketline 2014).
Caterpillar works through five reportable fragments: power systems, development businesses, asset commercial ventures, budgetary items, and other.
The force frameworks section is essentially in charge of supporting clients utilizing responding motors, turbines and related parts crosswise over commercial ventures serving electric force, modern, petroleum and marine applications and rail related organizations. The section is occupied with outline, advancement, assembling, promoting, deals and item backing of responding motor fueled generator sets, incorporated frameworks utilized as a part of the electric force era industry, responding motors and coordinated frameworks and answers for the marine and petroleum commercial enterprises; and responding motors supplied to the modern business and Caterpillar hardware. Likewise, the fragment gives item outline, item administration, advancement, assembling, advertising, deals and item bolster for turbines and turbine-related administrations. The force frameworks portion is likewise occupied with the advancement, assembling, remanufacturing, support, renting and administration of diesel-electric trains and segments and other rail-related items and administrations.
The development commercial ventures fragment is principally in charge of