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Competitive Advantage, Organizational Structure, and Businesses

sorting out. In these examples, what elements of organizational structure are managers working with to enhance performance and com...

Competitive Advantage and Technology

and Millar (1985) noted some 20 years ago that information technology ends up creating a competitive advantage by offering the bus...

FedEx and Sustainable Competitive Advantage

advantage, leading the company to acquire Kinkos to enable innovative operations. Relevance Never before has FedEx been any...

Germany's Competitive Position

for a competitive advantage (Porter, 1980). He argued that there were two sources of competitive advantage; cost and differentiati...

Competitive Capabilities and Canon Copiers

digital cameras, camcorders, LCD projectors, binoculars and lenses (Lower, 2004). Though its photographic business has taken a ham...

Three Articles on Competitive Analysis and the American Economy

et al, 2004). Basically, notes Osterman and his colleagues, "we lack a generally accepted intellectual and policy framework for th...

Saugerties, New York's New Rhythm and Blues Quintet

successful, particularly in America, you must do the same thing over and over and over again" and NRBQ categorically refuses to do...

Competitive Advantage, Single Markets, and the EU

good idea to offer the basic definitions of monopolistic competition and economies of scale. In its most basic sense, monopolistic...

Economies of Scope and Scale, Learning Curve, and Competitive Advantages

learning curve will increase on a product, for example, over time. While each can stand on its own, when any of the three concepts...

Personal Identity in David Lynch's Film Blue Velvet

producers and directors have found that they have a truly unique power to significantly influence the attitudes and emotions of th...

Competitive Advantage with Regard to McDonald's and Wendy's

allowed the competition (such as Wendys) to come in and take over? Or has McDonalds carved such a strong niche economically, that ...

Competitive Strategies, Old and New

strategies. The companies and industries which are moving from old to new models are certainly relevant. It is true that while o...

Competitive Advantage and Process of Consumer Decision Making

the hotel industry and Marriott Hotels we can see that it is by way of differentiation that they appear to try to operate....

Athenian Empire and Pericles

indeed a city of art and beauty - at least for those among the wealthy who could afford both art and beauty. As with any urban are...

Ottoman Empire, the Armenians, and Genocide

of them were generated by the descendents of the survivors (Erickson ,2001). Because of this, Erickson (2001) rightfully points ou...

Industry Competitive Position of Upsher Smith Laboratories

such that people are living longer, and when combined with the demographic changes now underway, the result is expected to greatly...

Keystone Species, Bimodal Distribution, and Competitive Displacement

occur even if resources were not limited. However, other regulatory factors such as temperature, humidity, food quality and so on ...

Competitive Analysis of the American Automobile Industry

emphasizing profitability instead of market share but profitability is not keeping pace with the loss of sales in a slow economy ...

Competitive Advantage and Southwest Airlines

the U.S. Department of Transportation gave a name to the phenomenon - the Southwest Effect (Southwest, 2003). It refers to the con...

Competitive Advantage Through Information

superior profits. To compete in the long term Porter has argued that there should be a source of competitive advantage, however, t...

The Empire of the St. Lawrence by Donald Creighton

region is his awareness of the influence of commerce and the manner by which it shapes history. Certainly other historians realiz...

Starbucks' Strategic Pricing and Competitive Response

hand, could be considered the brand geared toward young, upwardly mobile individuals who expect good taste in all things, even the...

Fall of the Sears 'Empire'

is commonly acknowledged that the small companies which come into competition with the Superstore typically close their doors with...

Competitive Markets and Health Care

criticized for cutting costs when it comes to health care delivery. For another thing, consumers generally make a choice o...

The Habsburgs, Embodying Empire by Andrew Wheatcroft

how they have always been an incredibly focused and a very driven family who is dedicated to their power. And Wheatcroft examines ...

Should Canada be More Competitive?

of competition, it is by no means a communist nation. Canada does have an economy that includes competitive forces. It is also con...

Analysis of ING’s Competitive Strategy

order to develop an understanding of their competitive advantages and the way in which those advantages have been gained and retai...

MCDONALD'S, PROMOTION AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

its standards, such as the Big Mac and Quarter Pounder (Cebrzynski, 2008). In other words, McDonalds is moving its promotional and...

Bluest Eye, Sonny Blues and Cathedra

is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...

AN EXAMINATION OF COMPETITIVE PRICING THROUGH QUASAR COMPUTERS

the kneejerk reaction of moving pricing in response to competition is a sure way to failure. Price wars, the authors note, benefit...