Research Journal 15b

Things I took from this course.

To say the least this class made me a lot more proficient in a few different categories, the most important one however would have to be my use of internet search engines. This class will help me with the future of my college career in many different situations. I definitely feel a lot more confident using the computer now, and this will better the projects that I will turn in later in my collage career. Also i thought the wordle assignment was fun, I found it interesting to see the words I used the most. Over all this class has helped with my organizational skills and has made me a better writer.

Research journal 15a

Wordle URL http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1424204/Robs_corporation,

Research journal 13 B

Bibliography-

1. Limone, Jerry. "Corporations tightening travel spending." Travel Weekly 60.3 (2001): 1-4. Print
2. Vasquez, Luis. "Failure." Service Industries Journal 29.6: 847-59. Print.(Vasquez pg 4)
3. Heleman, John S. The psychology of consumer sales promotion and the impact on franchise building, promotional orientation, and profitability. 1st ed. Austin, 1986. Print.
4. Carner, William J. Effects of franchising on the market share and profitability of financial institutions joining a franchise system. 1st ed. University of Missouri-Columbia, 1989. Print.

Research Journal 13A

Field Research Report-

For my in the field research report I interviewed two of my supervisors at work. I did this because I work for a semi large corporation called the Cheese Cake Factory. I asked the two supervisors questions on weather they think it is more economically and neighborly appropriate to open a large corporation or keep the corporations open for the purchase of stock for the public. Just as i suspected they both answered with the same answer. They think it it better to keep a large corporation open. This would mean that the public can benefit off of the success of the company's in their own neighborhood. The only thing that would be beneficial for the large corporations is the fact that they can offer jobs to people who have disability's. My supervisor also said that she believes it would be harder for the smaller corporations to compete with the wages that are being put off by big corporations like Wal-mart. But in the end i came to the conclusion that even people who are well educated and have a very strong background with bigger corporations still believe that it is better to have a smaller open corporation. This was the information that i thought would come out of this field research project.

Research journal#12c

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Research journal #12b

Presentation plan:

I plan to put together a rather simple power point presentation that gets all of my main

points across. I will have a slide defining the two different types of corporations. I will have two slides that offer both pro and cons of both different types of corporations. I will then present my thesis on a slide and show the reasons i think an open corporation in more bennifical to a person, a neighborhood, and a family. Most of this information will come directly from my formal outline.

Research Journal 12a

Progress report:

Things i have done-

1. I have already completed most of my research
2. i have constructed an opening statement and paragaph.
3. I have coonstructed a thesis, and closing statement
4. Started to organize a works cited page

Things i need to accomplish-

1. I still need to do my field research , i plan to do this very soon.
2. I still need to gather a small amount of information to fill in gaps in my paper
3. I still need to pick out the visual aids i will be putting in my paper
4. I still need to construct a detailed outline, (other classes have got in the way of the completion of this.
5. I would like to see myself work a little bit faster, to make less of the amount of work i will ahve to put into this paper last minute.
6. Would like to have my final paper done by november 15th

11c

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Research journal #11b

Visual aids-

1. I Plan to use yahoofinance.com for all of the financial trends of different corporations, they display several graphs, I will use a few of the relevant graphs
2. Photos and logos of the corporations I will be bringing up in the text portion of my paper.
3. pictures of the people and community's effected by the moving in of the bigger closed corporations.
4. Pie charts, and job summary information, as well as trends in the industry.
5. political cartoons from either news paper or magazines that lean towards my direction on the subject of huge corporations.

Research Journal 11a

Introduction-

Recently inour country it has become a trend to franchise a corporation, making it availbe for a branch of the company to be purchased and personally run by the public, or by an individual alone. If nothing is done to keep large closed corporations from keeping the option of franchising and open stock corporations closed, then the public will not befit off of the business opportunity given to them. In turn this will make large corporations such as Walmart and Starbucks turn into a monopoly of sorts. Though the Big Corporations will provide jobs and service that the public can benefit from, the community will never be able to collect profit from a corporation they own a small part of.

Research journal 10b

Argument- 

      The argument i wish to state is that it is better off for the economy and for the good of the local people to have more local business.  The Argument that i wish to state is that bigger closed corporations seem to take away the business and employee options that smaller franchises and corporations offer to  local neighborhoods and community's. Not only do they provide jobs but they offer the idea of a successful business to local people to with the potential to profit from the business of their community. I will explore the profits major closed corporations benefit off of compared to the amount local business owners and franchise owners could have been getting. I will be arguing in favor of the smaller business because i believe it will benefit the smaller local community in the long run.

Research Journal #10a

Thesis Statement -

Major corporations that have closed stock options are worse for the economy, neighborhoods, and the economy as a whole. If more corporations were open for franchising then it would give more people and neighborhoods a chance to experience the service of big corporations and in turn possibly bring a bigger profit to the corporation and those who choose to be a part of that corporation through franchising opportunity. Not only would this be better for the economy, but the corporations would in turn see a great deal more of business at their stores across America, and in turn more people would be able to experience and benefit off of the service and work provided in their given neighborhood.

Research journal 8b.

Social media-

Technorati -SOURCE

open franchise vs. closed franchise finance- KEYWORDS

keywords, and= bouillon -SEARCH STRATEGIES

10-11-09 -DATE SEARCHED

2-# of hits

no relevance

I fell that i may have used this operator wrong , as because i had such bad luck with my hits. Hopefully i can find a better source of social media.

Research Journal #8a

Websites-

http://bubl.ac.uk/- so far the most useful thing i have come across, it is a directory so this means all of the sources are credible, i like this because it didn't give me a whole mess of feeds it took me straight to about 6 logical things i could use.

BUBL-resource searched/keywords/tools used/directory

Profitable corporations 2007-keywords

boulian/keywords/directory-search methods and website used

10-08-09...Date searched

6-number of hits

5-relevance of hits

Next i decided to chec out dogpile.com, i must say that i felt the relevance o got from BUBL was a lot more useful to me than dogpile.

Dogpile-recources searched/search engine

Closed corporation success-keywords

keywords-search methods

10-08-09... date searched

187-number of hits

1.5-relevancy of hits

I belive that using a directory is more useful than most of the other things i tried, it gave me more relevant hits that i know are from a creditable source, this should make the remander of my resarch a bit less confusing.

Research Journal#7B

Internet Research Tool Test-

http://bubl.ac.uk/---assigned search tool.

I searched "Profitable Corporations 2008"
I was very surprised to find that i didn't get 50,000 pages worth of useless stuff, but instead i got about 8 hits all of which were semi-useful.
The one that i chose was pretty relevant to my topic. What i found was not an artical but rather a link to a Fortune 500 list, This was a great help to my research because it provided a list of all the financially "on top" companies of 2007. This is awesome because i can take all of these companies and look up weather they are a private corp. or a franchise corp. This should provide very good statistics that i can use in my paper.http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/full_list/index.html



BUBL
KEYWORDS: Profitable corporations 2008
SEARCH STRATAGIES: keywords.
DATE OF SEARCH: October1, 2009
NUMBER OF HITS :8

Research journal #7c

Field research Assignment-

I have decided that for my field research assignment i will simply schedule a meeting with the GM of the store i am currently working at. I work for the Cheese Cake Factory, wich as you may know is a very big and successful corp. I think this will be very useful to my project as i will be asking questions about the finances of the corporation. I will also try to make sure and get the opinion of all of my supervisors on weather they think it is a better idea to have a franchise coroporation or a closed corporation. I will take very good notes during all of this and try to make some sort of survey that will allow all of my supervisors to give me their opinion on the direction i chhose to lean with my paper. I belive this will help me in more ways than one because i will understand my topic from the point of view of people who are acctualy effected by the descions of the company.

Research Journal#7

Internet Research Tools-
I would have to say that i feel most comfortable using Google. I chose Google because it is the most familiar to me, after all i have used it all my life. I am also a user of the internet browser "Google chrome", so naturally Google has a search bar right up on my tool bar. I am very open to try any new search engines to help me narrow down my search, however I might need a bit of guidance to make this possible. The only thing that I don't like to much about Google is the number of hits that come up every time I type something into the bar. If i had to change to a different search engine i would most likely use "http://blackle.com/", it is pretty much the same as Google, but with a cooler looking page, and it is also powered by google.

Research journal 6c

Protopage link

http://protopage.com/robdog33

reasearch journal #6b

Revised Research Strings--- -- -

Franchise AND Popular corporations

" Chipotle Success"

Profitable+Franchise+ corporations

"Well known new franchise"

Restaurant AND Hotel success

"successful profit margin in corporations"

All of the rest of my search strings seemed to be moderatly successful, these that i have selected are the strings i have revised and proved more successful since the previous versions.

Research Journal #6a

http://protopage.com/robdog33- protopage link

Corporations tightening travel spending.-title
Limone, Jerry- author
travel weekly 3/12/2001-Title of periodical
Volume 60 article 21- Volume and issue
4 pages
Auria library database-EBSCO HOST
Corporation AND Franchise AND Profitability-Keywords
Research Methods- Keywords
date searched-9-24-09
205 hits,
relevancy 1.5

How passive ownership restrictions affect the rate of franchisee failure.- Title
Luis Vasquez- Author
service industries Journal-source
Vol 29, issue 6.
pages 847-859
163713 hits
relevance 2.5
Research Methods-Keywords
Date searched-9/24-09
Keywords used. franchise Corporations and Better
Auria Library-EBSCO Host


Still Going Strong-Title
Business Franchise-Source
July-Aug, 2009-Date
Issue 185, pages 64-65
57738 hits, relevancy 4
Auria Library-EBSCO HOST
Keywords, corp. Franchise. Business profitability
Industrial surveys
research strategies- Keywords

Research Journal #5 b

Name(s) of author(s), editor(s), translator(s), and/or compiler(s):

John Sterling Heleman

Title and subtitle of the book:

The psychology of consumer sales promotion and the impact on franchise building, promotional orientation, and profitability

Edition number or information:

1st Edition

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX

Date of Publication:

1986

Resource Searched:

Auraria Library

Keywords Used:

Franchise Profitability's

Search Strategies Used:

Key Words

Date of Search:

9/21/2009

Number of Hits:

16,450

Names of Author:

William John Carner

Title of Book:

Effects of franchising on the market share and profitability of financial institutions joining a franchise system

Edition number of information:

1st Edition

Place of Publication:

University of Missouri-Columbia

Name of Publisher:

N/A

Date of Publication:

1989

Resource Used:

Auraria Library

Keywords Used:

Franchise Profitability

Search Strategies Used:

Key Words

Date of search:

9/21/2009

Number of hits:

18,203

Research Journal #5 c

Comments-

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Research Journal #5 a,

This article was very useful in my search because it described many things a big corporation like chipotle does to gain ground on its competitors, whom a lot of which are franchise.

TITLE:Starting Chipotle From Scratch

Publisher: Wall Street Journal

Location:NY, NY

Date: Sept.17, 2009

Pages:about 2 with a Q&A

Resources: Google, Wall street Journal

Key words: Chipotle Success

Date Searched: Sept 21st 2009

Title:The 200 best small Company's

Date:Oct.29, 2007

Publisher:Forbes INC.

Location: New York, new york

Pages:

Recourse's: Auria Library

Key Words: Franchise

Date Searched: Sept 21, 2009

Search Strategies:Search Field

# of hits: 3,313

Research Journal #4c

Comments on Questions

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Research journal #4b

Research Strings

Boolean, math method

Buissness-profit+corporation or stock owner

Franchise+popular+profitable and well known

Profit and buissness+franchise

"profitable popular corporations"

"Growing well known franchises"

"Stock holders earing profit in a corporation"

Frabchise AND profit OR gain

Restaurant OR hotel corperation AND Franchise AND buisness

Research journal #4

List of key words-

-buissness

-buissnesses

-profit

-profitable

-franchise

-franchises

-corporation

-private

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Private Buisness Franchise Profit

personal restaurnt public gain

alone hotel for sale earn

secret job growing extra

family service accumulation

private/public addition

researchjournal#2c

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Researchjournal#2b

The topic that i chose is a bit un-clear at the moment, however i have some sort of idea of what i would like to do. I have chose to research the issue of pets in the hospitality industry. I have chose this because i have decided to be a hospitality major, and this is a big issue in the industry. Many people think that it is un sanitary to have their dog spot join them for dinner, however there are just as many people that feel like spot is a part of the family and should be treated as though.

I plan to base a lot of my research on interviews with people and guests in the service industry. I will base these interviews in both hotels and restaurants. It is already very clear to me that a lot of places frown upon this topic, but my goal is to go in depth and find out all the reasons people think pets should be barred from service enviorments. I am curious to find out which side generates a better logic for this topic. I also plan to investigate the way this issue is handled in different countries.

The things that i am most curious to investigate are the health hazards that may come into play while spot is at the table dining with the family. I will be finding out what types of policy's hotels have that accept dogs with open arms. It is very interesting to me to see how the other guests fell about having a pet in the facility causing a ruckus. This research will send me in several different directions I'm sure, but hopefully the end result will let me know weather it is a good idea to have our furry friends joining us on our time away from home.

resaarchjournal#2A

Topics For Research Paper-
-Should pets be aloud in dining areas at restaurnts?
-should pets be aloud in hotels with guests?
-Is pets in the hospitality a health problem?
-Which way do more hospitality industrys roll, twords pets or away from pets?
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Is there evidence to support the health hazardsd pets may spread in public places?
-Do different countries handle the issue?

ResearchJournal#1: Areas of academic intrest

Research Topics-

-hospitality
-Education
-Restaurant business and growth
-typically margin of time before a profit is gained (restaurant)
-Health and nutrition facts in todays food industry
-popular eating trends of todays americans
-fast food health facts and dangers
-popular health trends( adults vs. young adults)
-buesiness monoply( walmart Mcdonalds)
-Nutririon in pro sports and how they apply to preformance