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La Llegada Del Cristianismo

Sample details Pages: 7 Words: 2120 Downloads: 2 Date added: 2017/06/26 Category Analytics Essay Type Analytical essay Did you like this example? Sus comienzos, Edad Media   y su impacto en la filosofà ­a Al abordar este tema, pretendo hacer un pequeà ±o anà ¡lisis de la llegada del cristianismo, y de cà ³mo, este nuevo movimiento, afecto la vida filosà ³fica de la à ©poca. Tratando de vislumbrar, a mi parecer, cuales son los valores finales a los que arriba el cristianismo desde el punto de vista institucional. El Cristianismo nace en Palestina, geogrà ¡ficamente ubicada entre Asia y à frica. Los judà ­os eran un   pueblo monoteà ­sta, unidos a Yahvà © por una alianza, Antiguo â€Å"Testamento†, del cual surge su ley.   Su religià ³n (fuertemente entrelazada con el derecho) era una religià ³n dura, de un Dios omnipotente, cuyos designios eran inescrutables, aunque fuesen sangrientos, pues su principio bà ¡sico era el del talià ³n. Siendo un pueblo, muchas veces, victima de atropellos, crecià ³ en su seno la idea de la aparicià ³n de un Redentor. Este serà ­a el Mesà ­as, quien vendrà ­a a salvar a los judà ­os. Sin embargo, comienzan a provocar convulsià ³n social aquellos profetas que anuncian su arribo. A su llegada, Jesucristo declara que no viene a abolir la ley de los profetas, sino que su funcià ³n serà ¡ la de flexibilizar la ley Mosaica, la cual era dura e inflexible. Y plantea la divisià ³n del mundo en dos, la vida Terrenal y la vida Celestial, diciendo: â€Å"Dad al Cesar lo que es del Cesar y a Dios lo que es de Dios†. Frase suscitada a raà ­z de las acusaciones hechas contra à ©l de querer revelarse frente a el Cesar, proclamà ¡ndose Rey de los Judà ­os (â€Å"INRI† iniciales grabadas en la Cruz, a modo de burla, â€Å"Jesà ºs Nazareno rey de los Judà ­os), a lo que à ©l argumenta: â€Å"Mi reino no es de este mundo†. A su vez propone amar a los enemigos, poner la otra mejilla, entregar los bienes que son requeridos, etc. Asà ­ se plantea, en mi   opinià ³n, el predominio del valor amor y humanidad, ejemplificados en la idea del perdà ³n y   el amar incluso al enemi go. Para ese entonces, el Imperio Romano estaba en su mà ¡ximo esplendor, el Derecho Romano estaba prà ¡cticamente elaborado. Los Judà ­os tenà ­an un â€Å"modus vivendi† aceptable. Los grandes filà ³sofos griegos ya habà ­an elaborado su doctrina. Pero para el Cristianismo primitivo estos fenà ³menos no tienen relevancia, lo que genera nuevamente gran convulsià ³n social. En sus comienzos le interesa poco la reflexià ³n Filosà ³fica, y centra su interà ©s en la à ©tica. Se suscitan tensiones entre la Filosofà ­a y la Religià ³n, el Derecho y la cultura, principalmente entre el Concilio de Nicea (donde se proclama a Jesucristo como Dios-Hijo, el Dios de los Judà ­o deja de ser abstracto) y la muerte de Santo Tomas de Aquino en 1274. (v. Miguel à ngel Ciuro Caldani â€Å"Lecciones de Filosofà ­a del Derecho Privado†). Las tensiones tambià ©n se hicieron presentes dentro de los primeros cristianos. Es asà ­ como se contraponen las figuras de San Pedro (c.10 a.J.C. 64 d.J.C), quien asigna a la religià ³n una visià ³n mà ¡s judaizante, y San Pablo (m.c 67 d.J.C), quien sostuvo el carà ¡cter mà ¡s cosmopolita del cristianismo, partiendo de la fe. Con el desarrollo del Cristianismo, el mensaje dejado por el mesà ­as, a mi parecer, comienza a distorsionarse, incluso en boca de los apà ³stoles que deben comenzar la gran obra de la Iglesia. Podemos citar nuevamente a San Pablo y San Pedro; à ©l primero refiere: â€Å"Que todos se sometan a las autoridades que nos dirigen. Porque no hay autoridad que no venda de Dios†¦Ã¢â‚¬ , a su vez San Pedro (primer Papa) dice: â€Å"Por amor a Dios, someteos a toda autoridad humana†. (M.A.C.C â€Å"Lecciones Historia de la Filosofà ­a del Derecho†). Pues en mi humilde entender son dos frases que distan mucho de lo dicho por Jesà ºs al dar al Cesar lo que es del Cesar, Y a Dios lo que es de Dios. Pues Jesà ºs venia a preparar a los hombres para el mundo Celestial, dejando claro que su reino no es de este mundo, su reino no es Estatal. Es decir, que con la partida del mesà ­as comienza a subvertirse el valor poder por sobre los valores amor y humanidad que contenà ­a el mensaje inicial. El valor poder, gran protagonista de la historia de la humanidad, es el que provoca generalmente las tensiones entre los hombres y sus intereses. Por tal razà ³n los cristianos son victimas de persecuciones, al no querer rendir culto al emperador y este ver amenazada su autoridad por la creencia en alguien que no esta, ni es de este mundo. El fin de las persecuciones contra los cristianos comenzà ³ con un edicto del emperador Galerio (311) y con el â€Å"Edicto de Milà ¡n† promulgado en 313 por el emperador Constantino (c.270-337) y Licinio (c.260-324). Citando al Dr. M.A, Ciuro Caldani â€Å"El Cà ©sar y Jesà ºs, el Estado y la Iglesia, se habà ­an enfrentado y habà ­a triunfado Jesà ºs y su Iglesia†. Aun asà ­ se siguen provocando tensiones, ya que el helenismo no se extingue; es asà ­ como Flavio Claudio Juliano (c.331-363), emperador romano (361-363), sobrino de Constantito, intento restaurar la creencia en los dioses antiguos. Intento que luego de su muerte queda trunco. Los primeros intentos de combinar la Filosofà ­a con el pensamiento cristiano se dan con la Gnosis y la Patrà ­stica. Los gnà ³sticos intentan encuadrar el cristianismo dentro del Platonismo, creando seres para llenar el vacà ­o entre la divinidad y el mundo sensible A ellos se opone la patrà ­stica. Se considera a la Patrà ­stica desde su periodo de apogeo, que va desde el Concilio de Nicea hasta el siglo V. El Dr. Ciuro Caldani, expone que â€Å"la patrà ­stica no es una filosofà ­a sino un movimiento cultural importante para la historia de la filosofà ­a. Que responde a la necesidad de dar una formulacià ³n intelectual a la nueva fe† (Lecciones de la Historia de la Filosofà ­a del Derecho). La figura mà ¡s importante de este movimiento es San Agustà ­n (354-430), quien pertenece temporalmente a la Edad Antigua, pero teà ³ricamente a la Edad Media. El inicio de la Edad Media viene acompaà ±ado de la continuacià ³n de la patrà ­stica. San Agustà ­n, recurrià ³ al filà ³sofo mà ¡s crsitianizable: Platà ³n Asà ­ diferencià ³ el mundo de lo perfecto, que es la ciudad de Dios y el mundo de lo imperfecto que es la cuidad terrena, humana, donde se encuentra el Derecho.   Creo que esta idea se acerca a los dichos de Jesà ºs, siempre y cuando no se confundan en una sola institucià ³n la Iglesia y el Estado, de modo que la   Iglesia quede como la ciudad perfecta, salvando al hombre a travà ©s de sus sacramentos, como sucederà ­a posteriormente, asumiendo la potestad de la vida y la muerte. Los objetos que mà ¡s estudiaba San Agustà ­n son Dios, el alma y la felicidad eterna. La religiosidad parte de la fe. Subordina la Filosofà ­a a la Reli già ³n, pues considera que la primera es à ºtil si no se opone a la verdad revelada por la segunda. El verdadero filà ³sofo ama a dios. Luego de la caà ­da del Imperio Romano de occidente, se produce un retroceso de la cultura. De la crisis cultural surgen instituciones monà ¡sticas. La filosofà ­a se estudia como complemento de la Teologà ­a. Surge la Escolà ¡stica, llamada de tal manera porque se estudiaba en las â€Å"escuelas† en principios conventuales. Trataban de conciliar la fe y la razà ³n y la autoridad y la razà ³n. Tambià ©n comienzan a establecerse las à ³rdenes religiosas, como la de los franciscanos, fundada por San Francisco de Asà ­s. Estos rechazan las riquezas materiales en reaccià ³n ante la nueva realidad que significaba el comienzo de una economà ­a de tipo capitalista. Se inclinan desde el punto de vista filosà ³fico por las enseà ±anzas de San Agustà ­n y Platà ³n. Y la orden de los dominicos, fundada por Santo Domingo de G uzmà ¡n (1221-1170), que se origina con la tarea de combatir el error y la herejà ­a, no solo en la palabra, tambià ©n en la obra. No hay que olvidar que son à ©pocas de grandes tensiones sociales, en las que se persigue la herejà ­a. En el aà ±o 1184, con el Concilio de Verona, se dio nacimiento a la inquisicià ³n medieval. El Concilio de Letrà ¡n, aà ±o 1215, acordà ³ la designacià ³n de jueces pesquisidores (en Inglaterra, en contraposicià ³n, Juan sin tierra debe dar lugar a la Carta Magna) y el Concilio de Tolosa, en el aà ±o 1229, establecià ³ los inquisidores de la Fe, para la lucha contra la herejà ­a. Son tiempos difà ­ciles para una filosofà ­a arriesgada, pues se corre peligro de terminar en la hoguera. La Iglesia parece haber olvidado el mensaje de amor de su fundador, sembrando el terror a travà ©s de la persecucià ³n y de la tortura, principalmente para preservar el poder que ha conseguido. Nuevamente el valor poder se hace presente, en mi humild e opinià ³n, por encima del valor amor, humanidad e incluso el de santidad, que es el valor al que se pretende llegar en la Edad Media. Con San Buenaventura perteneciente a la orden franciscana y Santo Tomas de Aquino de la orden dominicana se produce la sà ­ntesis de los dos pensamientos teolà ³gicos y filosà ³ficos. San Buenaventura concibe la regià ³n en una intima comunià ³n del hombre con Dios, de fraternidad, que se manifiesta a quienes viven en la humildad y en el amor. Para à ©l el filosofà ³ no puede alcanzar la verdad en su plenitud sino apoyado por la luz de la fe. Hace prevalecer la fe y la voluntad por sobre la razà ³n. Las opiniones de base aristototà ©licas le causaban aversià ³n. Para Santo Tomas de Aquino el à ¡mbito entero de la filosofà ­a proviene exclusivamente de la razà ³n y, en cambio, la teologà ­a se basa en la revelacià ³n. A su parecer la ley es una ordenacià ³n de la razà ³n con vista al bien comà ºn promulgada por aquel que tiene el cuidado de la comunidad, la ley no procede da la voluntad sino de la razà ³n. La ley eterna, fuente de la cual derivan las demà ¡s, es la razà ³n de Dios. Para à ©l el poder radica   Ãƒ ºltima y mediatamente en Dios, pero prà ³xima e inmediatamente en la comunidad que lo confà ­a a los gobernantes. A mi entender, aunque revaloriza el Estado terrenal, todavà ­a no lo puede escindir de Dios o de la Iglesia como institucià ³n y asà ­ se busca la manera de conciliar a ambos para coexistir, siendo la Iglesia fundamental para la existencia del estado. De la misma manera se intenta encontrar la armonà ­a entre la teologà ­a y la filosofà ­a. Para el Dr. M.A. Ciuro Caldani, esta es la mayor sà ­ntesis, en la Edad Media, de razà ³n y fe, y de filosofà ­a y teologà ­a. Como se puede observar, en los primeros tiempos del cristianismo la Filosofà ­a es dejada de lado. Con el transcurso del tiempo y en bà ºsqueda de argumentos que sostengan el poder y prot agonismo de la Iglesia, se debe volver a la filosofà ­a. Lo cual no le resta merito. Como sucedià ³ con Aristà ³teles, que dentro de su teorà ­a encontraba fundamento a la esclavitud, y tal aceptacià ³n tenà ­a relacià ³n con el contexto histà ³rico que le tocaba vivir. Del mismo modo, para estos pensadores, el contexto histà ³rico era el de surgimiento y desarrollo del cristianismo y de una Iglesia que se habà ­a convertido en eje central de la vida medieval. Lo reprochable es como niegan la propia fundamentacià ³n del cristianismo, convirtiendo un mensaje de amor y flexibilizacià ³n en una de las mà ¡s espantosas persecuciones de la historia. El valor primordial de la Edad Media es la santidad. Pero como exprese anteriormente, en mi opinià ³n el valor poder, principalmente en la etapa de la inquisicià ³n, se subvierte al   valor santidad. La mayorà ­a de las teorà ­as subordinan el Estado a la Iglesia, la filosofà ­a a la teologà ­a. Don’t waste time! Our writers will create an original "La Llegada Del Cristianismo | Spanish Dissertation" essay for you Create order BIBLIOGRAFIA: MIGUEL à NGEL CIURO CALDANI; Lecciones de la Historia de la Filosofà ­a del Derecho. MIGUEL à NGEL CIURO CALDANI; Lecciones de Filosofà ­a del Derecho Privado. WARNER GOLDSCHMIDT; La Teorà ­a Trialista del Mundo Jurà ­dico y sus Horizontes.

Michael Asch, An Anthropologist - 900 Words

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A Fight For Freedom Rosa Parks and Mahatma Ghandi Essay

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Concept and Value of Entrepreneurship Free Essays

string(33) " is caused by nature or nurture\." Question: What is entrepreneurship? Illustrate your answer with suitable examples from your home country. Nowadays, entrepreneurship places an important determinant of development in the society and regarded as the â€Å"rock stars† in the business world. According to Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), entrepreneurship is defined as: ‘any attempt to create a new business enterprise or to expand an existing business by an individual, a team of individuals or an established business’. We will write a custom essay sample on Concept and Value of Entrepreneurship or any similar topic only for you Order Now It means that the individuals or an established business are able to make a unique, innovative and creative contribution whether in employment or self-employment. At the same time, entrepreneurship represents people who are driven to act on opportunities and environmental catalysts in the face of limited resources. At its core, entrepreneurship is starting a business from idea conception to managing the company for the long term. There is no doubt that entrepreneurship deserves the reputation for the reason that it has the level of freedom of which traditional managers can only dream. ( Morrison, 2000) In order to inquire entrepreneurship deeply, this article illustrates two essential parts to analysis entrepreneurship. The first aspect is giving the concept of entrepreneurship including the explanation of entrepreneurship and discussing whether entrepreneurship is aroused from nature or nurture. The second part is considering the value of entrepreneurship. Part one: the concept of entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship can be explained into various approaches, including economic approach, personality approach and other approaches. In this part, the article put emphasis on the economic dimension and personality dimension to analyze the features distinguished entrepreneurs. The role of entrepreneurship is embedded in the mainstream economic models. Considering the direction of causality between entrepreneurship and economy, it can be proved that economic development generates many opportunities which can transform new ideas and create the new enterprises. On the contrary, the creation of new industries and the innovation of existed firms which stimulated by entrepreneurship may stimulate the economic growth. Therefore, entrepreneurship can be regarded as both the cause and effect of economic development. From an economic perspective, the measure of entrepreneurship is the contribution of new firm formation. Entrepreneurs are more than a business man, they are the speculative trader which is skilled to put forward new ideas, grasp the opportunities and combine the effective management with innovation in the risk and uncertainty background. When starting up a new enterprise, there are a number of jobs available can be generated. When facing with the economic slump and financial crisis, entrepreneurs can drive the company get out of the trouble by seizing opportunities and making innovation. There comes a conclusion that the entrepreneurs as the agent of economic change so that it makes huge contributions to economic growth. ( Oscar, Javier Pablo, 2009) It is far from enough for explaining the entrepreneurship in economic rationale. Economic perspective ignores the special human abilities and differences in human values, capabilities and power of human will result in different practical solutions. Therefore, it is essential to take the personality into account. Personality traits aim to using the characteristics of individual to explain the differences of individual actions when facing the similar conditions. Personality traits also explain the behaviors of entrepreneurs. There is no doubt that the individual personality of entrepreneurs stimulates their passions, social interactions and creativeness. In order to give a deep understanding of entrepreneurship, there are several traits which have a close relationship with entrepreneurship. ( Littunen, 2000) Innovation is the soul of entrepreneurship. Hampered by uncertainty and limited resources, entrepreneurs should to reply the variety agile efficiently and become creative in facing the challenges. Since the essence of entrepreneurship is doing the different things rather than making something better, the lack of innovation will result in the decline of enterprise, even perishing. In the point of view of CEO Zhang Ruimin, entrepreneurship is the creative destruction, if the enterprise attempts to make great achievements, there is a need for enterprise to destroy themselves, and otherwise they will be destroyed by other firms. Thus, recently, Haier put forward an idea that enterprises should be adapt to the demand of epoch development other than willing to success. Haier relies on the pursuit of innovation perseverance by the means of setting up an independent operation mode of the win-win body successfully become a leader in the industry. ( Okpara, 2007) Adventure is the nature of the entrepreneurial spirit. Facing with the potential risks and uncertainty, it is impossible to possess entrepreneurship if lacking of adventure. It is said that you must kiss a large number of frog to find the princess. It means that entrepreneurs should have to experience setbacks and failures in order to be success. Liu chuanzhi is the representative of entrepreneur in china. Although he has been relieved from this office, he still keens to start new businesses. Regardless of facing risks and many challenges, he intends to transform Lenovo into an enterprise which produces enterprises. It can be drawn that entrepreneurs have the spirit of adventure and dare to be the first one. (Hadji, Cocks Mueller, 2007) Social vision is the key to entrepreneurship. Social vision can be regarded as a strong sense of obligation and destiny to satisfy human needs. Possessing social vision promotes entrepreneurs to find the opportunities and act as an agent of social age. Li kaifu, the CEO of Innovation Works, stress that entrepreneurs should spare no effort to produce more social returns. He proves himself through actions. September 4, 2009, Kaifu Lee resigned from Google to run his Innovation Works as an angel investor and create new models for society by his huge influence. Li kaifu has the sense of obligation and aspiration to make contribution to social and economic development by creating new business and innovation. What’s more, there are many other characteristics which are associated with entrepreneurship such as locus of control, determination, and trusting and trustworthy. When entrepreneurship attracts public’s attention, there is a heated debate aroused about whether entrepreneurship is caused by nature or nurture. You read "Concept and Value of Entrepreneurship" in category "Papers" Some groups believed that genetic factors existed to drive people to engage in entrepreneurial activity. There is no doubt that some kinds of specialities are people born with, such as the innovativeness, adventurous and locus of control. These characteristics are determined by genetic factors rather than training or other environmental factors. It is insisted that genes may have an influence on chemical mechanisms in the brain so that people maybe more willing to pursue entrepreneurial activity. Genes also affect individual characteristics which can make entrepreneurs different from others, such as people who possess characteristics of innovativeness and locus of control are more likely to throw themselves to the entrepreneurial activity. ( Kroeck, Bullough Reynolds, 2010) Genes entrust people the ability to be more sensitive than others to environmental stimuli, it means that entrepreneurs are easier than others to master the social change in order to prepare in advance. What’s more, genes may make people to good at find favourable factors and opportunities to ensure the company development. Therefore, it is nearly impossible to find a simple formula or entrepreneurship that can be trained, the specific characteristics and habits possessed by the successful entrepreneurs was inherent. ( Kenney Mujtaba, 2007) However, some groups take the opposite view that entrepreneurial leaders are made rather than born. They consider that there is hardly existed entrepreneurship gene for the reason that the majority of entrepreneurial leaders start at a young age. According to the survey, about 33% of the entrepreneurial leader said that working in the corporate environment makes essential contribution to the success of their business. At the same time, 45% of entrepreneurs establish their own businesses after the age of thirty. Although there still have young entrepreneurial leader, it is no doubt that the knowledge they acquire in the college and the personal experiences through the corporate and social environment are essential to their success. In spite of the young age, over a half of entrepreneurs regarded themselves as the â€Å"transitioned leader† for the reason that they have spent a much time in the traditional employment before starting their own business. The education and experiences lay great foundation on the entrepreneurs. It can be concluded that entrepreneurs are aroused from both nature and nurture. Some unique characteristics of entrepreneurship which include creativeness, locus of control and risk-takers are born with and can not be taught, these characteristics make the entrepreneurial leaders apart from the traditional managers. Nevertheless, becoming successful entrepreneurs and running the business successfully in the long term are not simply requiring the specialties, but also depending on the combination of internal and external factors, consisting of education, timing, culture, social environment and sometimes luck. Part two: the value of entrepreneurship Almost without exception, entrepreneurship brings a lot benefits to individual, companies and society. Most importantly, entrepreneurship indeed generates great economic benefits so that it should be attach importance to. Actually, entrepreneurship is regarded as a challenge for people. It requires people to break the traditional thinking of managers and become the risk-taker and create a new business. Although it may be difficulty for people due to the lower median incomes and more volatile and less secure, entrepreneurs could earn self satisfaction and rewards which is an opportunity for them. At the same time, developing the entrepreneurship can generate self sufficiency which can create the wealth. According to the top ten popular entrepreneurs in china which is ranked by Forbes, consisting of CEO Ma huateng in Tencent, CEO Ma yun and other entrepreneurs, the aim of ranking is to make entrepreneurship internationally respected and admitted. Therefore, facing uncertainty risks and challenges, entrepreneurs are still willing to create their own business and achieve their values. Firth Mcelwee, 2009) Entrepreneurship also plays the dominant role in the enterprise development; it is the major source of the enterprise core competitiveness. The core competitiveness of enterprise is regarded as the extension of entrepreneurship and it can be reflected by the visionary and vigorous leader. As being the unique position in company, it is important for entrepreneurs to take responsibility of risk activities such as the organization innovation, management innovation and value innov ation. For example, in 2002, Huawei was facing the challenge of lacking of technology advantages and entering the cyclical downturn, CEO Ren zhengfei carried out the deep reform which includes industrial restructuring and internal restructuring and finally enterprise met the success. It proved that entrepreneurship does not simply constitute the internal driving force of development, but also become the external development opportunities. Entrepreneurship makes huge contribution to the social development, especially in economy. Entrepreneurship generates a large number of employment opportunities by the establishment of new business which is treated as a significant input to economy. It is also improving the level of productivity by boosting the GDP rates or tax contributions. Moreover, entrepreneurs are able to create many innovations which promote the boom of inventions the world would have been a much dry place to live in. Especially in recent years, China is experiencing the economic downturn influenced by the global economic crisis; it is in urgent need of entrepreneurship to promote the economic recovery. Sun mingnan is the represent of the generation of 80s, which was the most attractive young entrepreneur in Summer Davos, his successful experience proved that young entrepreneurs attach importance to the economic development in China. ( Santo, 2012) Above all, entrepreneurship has substantial value, it is increasingly treated as a vital driver of economic, productivity, innovation and employment development, and it is believed to be a key aspect of economic dynamism and a key factor to determine the birth and death of firms and their growth and downsizing. It is also promoting the self satisfaction and sufficiency. Since creating a new business and participating in self-employment has become a common activity in the world, entrepreneurship is widely recognized as the major drive in economic growth. After the basic analysis of entrepreneurship among the economic and political ways, as well as whether entrepreneurship is caused from nature or nurture, it can be concluded that entrepreneurs indeed have some kinds of characteristics which are born with, also need the knowledge and experiences. Combined with both nature and raining, entrepreneurs have the ability to make contribution to individual, enterprises and the society. In a conclusion, entrepreneurship is deserved for both people and government to pay attention to. 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Cameron Auto Parts Essay Example For Students

Cameron Auto Parts Essay In 2001 Alex began the Operation Survival, taking the decision of reducing costs, mainly in labor force. Alex cut its workforce from 720 to 470. At the beginning of 2002 the revenue would raise to $ 45 million and there were small gains. In the midst of Operation Survival Alex decides to do something about diversification, bringing to four engineers, designers and instructors. In 2003 Cameron Auto Parts spends $ 2. 5 million in equipment for quality products, faster service delivery, but not price. In late 2003, the Cameron situation returned to normal, although there was a need to invest in a new plant to separate the line of production of flexible couplings, As Cameron was not financially prepared to make that commitment, he options were either to wait a year to generate more profits and financial stability, or license production of the flexible coupling. In the spring Of 2004, Alex signed a five-year agreement with licensing Supplies Ltd. McGrath. McGrath had to pay $ 100,000 in fees in advance for the help Of Cameron to make things right and a royalty Of 3% on the first E I million sales and 2% in the second million. Megastar was forced to give a feedback of technology back to Cameron should get an improvement. Case Problem: In this case we can identify several problems, like in the beginning, that there as no diversification of the product or there was no major sales contracts that with the gag Three. Due to the crisis experienced at the beginning of the century, they were forced to improve their production, modernize and diversify it. Throughout the case we can see like Alex Cameron solves the problems of beginning, to the point of starting to recover economically the company, The situation had changed, and now the problem was that Cameron parts could not satisfy the demand, they dont have the production capacity for it. The companys market position in North America began to improve, and 50 they Egan to think about foreign markets. As the problem remained the lack of productive capacity, a bargain with McGrath Supplies Ltd started, and Cameron Auto Parts give them the license of the production if flexible couplings due to the impact that they might have products in the LLC_K. The problem With Cameron Auto Parts was that they Willing to deliver their products themselves, make a direct deal with the customer and make strong the brand by their their own, but since that did not have the productivity capacity, it was necessary to license But McGrath Supplies Ltd did not have the genealogy, and feared that they might give bad image to the product and thus could not perform well the production process. Problem Solution: To enter the European Union market Cameron Auto Parts needs a large investment, which does not have. The lack of capacity at its production plant because its market is centralized mainly on the IS,S, market, and since they now have to start exporting they need to expand the plant also acquiring new technology to meet the new requirements. The European markets is completely new for they and they didnt have the necessary information of it, so they need to make a market study and then segment the target market and measure their socioeconomic level, in order to know if their customers have the ability to purchase. All this operation would generate more costs to the company. Another important point that Cameron must take care is ballot tithe currency rate risk, they work with the currency U. S. , but they dont not know how the exchange rate fluctuates in the European union, for what they have to know how to handle all costs and whether it will be able to make a profit at the end of the operation. 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Cameron manages to increase its production capacity because it has money to do so, also manages to get new technology from its partner, allowing you to keep up with competition. Due to the agreement, Cameron no longer has to worry about the exchange rate since Mac Taught will be in charge, since the utilities have to be good to hand out to them. Which in the 5 years time, Cameron will know how to manage the exchange rate. All the disadvantages that Cameron could have at export time only give results with the help of Mac Taught. Before becoming an independent company higher profits because they no longer need to partition the same.