concepts of strategic positioning and sustainable competitive advantage and their interrelation. The qualitative study of three beverage producers is conducted. Cases are analyzed based on the theoretical models discussed in the first part of the paper. Findings - This paper provides comparison of positioning strategies and SCA of three international beverage producers. The theoretical framework on determinants of these concepts was developed and applied for case study. The concepts of SCA and SP
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3H Strategy & International Business 2001-2002 Session 8 – Positioning & RBAs compared A. INTRODUCTION TO SESSION The past two Sessions have outlined a series of models and frameworks that provide insights into the external environment and the strategic capabilities possessed by organisations. Many of these models and frameworks have developed as a consequence of a twenty-year debate over the way in which organisations seek to develop sustainable competitive advantage. In broad terms
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Strategy & International Business Introduction There has been a rapid modification in the business environment in the past decade as a result of privatization and globalization leading to difference in company’s strategies. A strategy can be defined in many ways and has many different viewpoints. This article aims to explain and critically evaluate the approaches of Jay Barney and Michael E. Porter, two leading strategy theorists, in-turn explaining the basis leading to the difference. What is
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the debate of Resource-based view vs. Positioning. Apparently, the authors in this article incline to the idea of resource-based view. The resource-based view deals with the organisation internal resources and takes advantages of those to construct firm’s strategies (Wernerfelt, 1984). Regarding resource-based view, Grant (2007) suggests that “the key to profitability is through an internal focus which seeks to utilize the unique characteristics of the company’s portfolio of resources and capabilities”
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The Human Resource Management models contains all Human Resource activities. When these activities respectively are carried out efficiently it will result in a competent and willing workforce These models establish the need for people to be recruited and developed, which in turn will enable them to achieve the organizational goals and maintain performance. HRM models can be termed as Harvard model, Michigan model and more recently introduced Guest comparative model respectively. Hard human resource
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Strategic role of HRD in managing core competiencies Human resources scholars since 1980’s have attempted to define the nature and meaning of the strategic HR function. These attempts have addressed human resource management in general, as well as the HRD function in particular. More systematic attempts to define SHRD followed somewhat later. Rothwell and Kazanas (1989) applied the generic process of strategic business planning to the management of the HRD function. Obtaining strategic value
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since the early 2000. It was once a firm with turnover exceeding the tax revenue of the country it was based in. However, the company not only first lost its number one ranking, a position it had held for 14 years but reach to sell-off in less than 10 years. So the most valid question from all is what happened to Finland's most beloved company? This case is all about analysis of NOKIA’s strategies responsible for its market domination to sell-off . Snapshot of NOKIA’s History To understand
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SECTION 1: Human resource management, Business environment and Human resource planning. LO1 a & b (26 marks). Question 1 With the support of relevant examples from the given case: Define personnel management and human resource management, and discuss TWO major differences between the two concepts. (6 marks) Analyze TWO potential external business environment challenges faced by Enterprise Rent-a-Car and their implications on the Company. (10 marks) Based on the challenges analyzed
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Comparisons with competing firms in these sectors will also be made. * Demonstrate that Porters generic strategy may help explain the gulf in both performance and profitability between Marks and Spencer’s Food and Clothes sectors. * Determine that the resource based view may aid Marks and Spencer in understanding the market and its competition better, and thus place the company in a stronger position. 2 Financial analysis 2.1 Return on Sales Source: Thomson one Source: Thomson one Analyzing the
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Evaluation of Sony Corporation’s strategy Sony have successfully created an incredible brand name previously, however, its legend seem to be falling apart recently. In fact, Sony’s net profit for the July-September quarter for 2006 falling 94% to 1.7 billion Yen, compared to 28.5 billion Yen for the same period last year (Benson, 8th Nov 2006). The major reasons for the declining profit are affected by the critical strategic issues faced by Sony which became a main drawback for them. The
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