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The Foundations of Competitive Advantage

Porter has argued that there should be a source of competitive advantage, however, that the two advantages of cost and differentia...

Proposal for a New Assessment Model Aimed at Analysis of Information Technology Use within a Firm

which an organisation competes. Porter (1985, p13) has designed two differing categories of competitive advantage; cost advantage ...

Can Knowledge Give a Company a Competitive Edge?

gained from experience as well as the collection of information, the experience may be the companies own experience, or that of ot...

Model for Competitive Advantage

There are many theories and models to increase an organization's competitive advantage. One of those is the kaizen methodology pro...

Competitive Advantage and the Hospitality Industry

sustaining a competitive advantage (LeBlanc and Mills, 1995). Say the experts, if employees dont like working in your environment,...

Competitive Profile of Hilton Worldwide

Roosevelt and the Plaza, and then in 1945 there is the purchase of Palmer House and the Stevens in New York(Hilton Worldwide, 2010...

Amazon's Differentiation and Cost Advantage

a source of competitive advantage, however, that the two advantages of cost and differentiation are not compatible, and will creat...

Can Multi-National Enterprises Build Sustained Competitive Advantages On The Basis Of Co-Operative Structures And Strategies?

to that which has the smallest absolute disadvantage. They should also import commodities where the absolute disadvantage is the g...

Information Technology and Competitive Advantage

is possible to access at all today. In order to assess the management of technology the way competitive advantages are gained it...

Employee Management And Competitive Advantage

said, it is very difficult to actually measure or quantify the value of employees and make that link on a quarterly or any duratio...

Is Corporate Culture and Potential Source of Competitive Advantage?

the argument that it can be the source of competitive advantage the opposite is also true, in firms where there have been fragment...

Corporate Culture and Competitive Advantage at southwest Airlines

a positive impact in terms of supporting or even creating a competitive advantage (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2007). There is a gre...

Joint Ventures, Knowledge Acquisition and Strategy Theory

as Asker, argued that the two may be compatible (Thompson, 2007). To understand what is meant by each of these strategies ...

Advantage to Other Forms of Transport?

types of transport for many reasons. The development of air freight and increased use of passenger aircraft to carry cargo provi...

The Competitive Approach of Intel

both the architecture and the elements are changed there is a radical innovation (Henderson and Clark, 1990). When looking at the...

How Some Competitive Advantages Endure in New Industries

manufactured products, firms will reverse engineer the products in order to find ways around the patents, and in some cases, as se...

Blue Nile Inc.

of Porters Five Forces model can be used to assess the industry and the firms ability to compete in that industry, the way the fir...

Pricing Strategies in Durability of Competitive Advantage

The first part of the paper discusses the 4 potential strategies; marginal cost pricing, incremental pricing, break even pricing a...

Assessment and Strategy Recommendation for TEVA

for the firm to start increasing the level of expenditure on research and development. To determine the most appropriate strategy ...

Organizational Development

and large companies alike in a range of different sectors. The market position adopted by the company will also be influen...

Competitive Strategy Health Care

Building a competitive advantage is crucial for all businesses to succeed. This paper uses Urbany's Competitive Strategy in 3 Minu...

Notes on Marketing and Strategy

In eight pages this paper examines acquisition advantages over startup, Porter's Competitive Strategy, and the marketing effects o...

Business Intelligence Competitive Tool of Data Mining

"junk" from the system before uploading the data and implementing a data mining tool. PNC Bank Corp. is used as an example of a ...

IT and Competitive Advantage

Information technology and how it can be implemented to gain competitive advantage is the focus of this paper consisting of seven ...

Aspects of Competitive Advantage

In five pages competitive advantage and its various factors are examined in terms of how it can be gained in business, with Porter...

3 Questions Answered on International Trade

example of the use of anti-dumping legislation is seen with the import of seafood. The US Department of Commerce ruled in prelimin...

Useful Financial Concepts for the Guillermo Furniture Store

resources. This would be useful if there were a single nation where Guillermo may find have an absolute advantage in the productio...

Southwest - Preparing for Change

airline has faced some challenged, such as the fine in 2003 for failure to deal fairly with disabled customers. To assess the wa...

Ryanair - Competitive Advantages and Main Competitor

which will mean a customer is happier to pay a higher price for the product, a price which is greater than the cost level of provi...

The Sources of Competitive Advantage at Burberry

also accompanied by style. The brand also has a number of logos and recognized styles that link in with the firm, traditions and q...