Research Paper on:
AIG and Corporate Cultural Diversity

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internal influences may vary, but the only consistency is change. Therefore, any company needs to be constantly aware of the environment in which it operates and the way that  the external conditions will impact on the supply and demand as well as the overall operations. The company also needs to be aware of the internal environment and how this  impacts on the company. In the course of operations there are many tools that are used, and these may be well known to a company, models such as Porters Five  Forces and a SWOT analysis. However, individual aspects may be seen in the way that have effects that range across different departments and over the entire company. If  we consider a large and very strong company we can consider how their will always be different influences on even the strongest of companies. To examine this we can look  at American International Group. The American International Group also known as AIG is a large company with operations in over 130 countries, and can be seen as one of  the largest international insurance companies (Hoover, 2001). Run by the well known Maurice Greenberg the company is known in the United States as a provider of property, casualty and unusual  insurance (Hoover, 2001). An example of this may be seen in the number of entertainment risk polices the company has taken ion, and the way that it was AIG that  insured the 100th birthday celebration for the Brooklyn Bridge in 1983 (Mason, 1984). The company has a large revenue, and over a third of this comes from international sources  and over seas trade, and a recent acquisition has increased the size of company when American General was purchased (Hoover, 2001). There are many events which influences that can be