387 From supply chains to value chains: A spotlight on CSR Malika Bhandarkar and Tarcisio Alvarez-Rivero* 1. Introduction Corporate social responsibility (CSR)1 has become a hot topic in boardrooms across the world. Changes in corporate value systems are being driven by pressures from different actors‚ including governments‚ consumers‚ non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutional investors (diagram 1). Multinational corporations (MNCs) have operations spread across the globe‚ relying
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Amazon Your Industry: Extracting Value from the Value Chain "Way cool" Web sites and measures of "hits" and "eyeballs" are clearly driving revenue in the dot-com world. To date‚ these metrics have provided the basis for the extraordinary market valuation of the new generation of Web retailers. In the near term‚ most "e-tailers" must focus on surviving the incubator phase of the Internet retail industry by gaining enough market shares to become a sustainable player. "Efficiency and productivity lie
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Burger King: Selling Whoppers in Japan “International is where it’s at‚” said Ron Paul‚ a Technomic consultant. “The fast-food burger category is going to find its better growth opportunity overseas. We’re close to saturation in the United States. That’s why McDonald’s has been so aggressive in overseas markets.” That’s also why Burger King has to be so aggressive in Japan. McDonald’s entered the Japanese market 25 years ago and now has 2‚000 outlets there generating $2.5 billion in sales – that’s
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Value Chain and Supply Chain Analysis Value Chain and Supply Chain Analysis Global value chain is described as activities companies use to bring out a product and share its conception from the beginning to the end. Design‚ production‚ marketing‚ distribution‚ and customer support are activities included in this process. The production of goods and services are value chain activities that are found in large geographical areas or different locations. The term “global value chain” means that value
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Day #2 Porter’s Strategic Models: The Five forces and the Value Chain CIS Department Professor Duane Truex III The Information Systems Strategy Triangle Business Strategy Organizational Design Strategy ICT/Information Strategy Professor Truex E-CommercePrinciples 1 HOW CAN INFORMATION RESOURCES BE USED STRATEGICALLY? Professor Truex E-CommercePrinciples Aligning IS/ICT strategy (Infrastructures) with business strategy • Using multiple approaches to evaluating
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concepts of ‘product’ or ‘commodity’ chains. Abstract This paper will investigate the relevance of three tools for analysing and prescribing remedies for improving company performance; Porter’s Value Chain‚ Gereffi and Korzeniewicz’s Global Commodities Chain framework and finally the Sector Matrix approach as described by Froud‚ et. al. Values and limitations of these approaches will be recognised and discussed via specific references to Ford Motor Company (hereafter to be referred to as Ford)
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Burger King’s grand strategyWhat are grand strategies? Grand strategies are comprehensive‚ long term plan of essential actions by which a firm plans to achieve its major objectives. Key factors of this strategy may include market‚ product‚ and organization development through acquisition‚ divestiture‚ diversification‚ joint ventures‚ or strategy alliances. There are three types of company implementing grand strategies‚ growth strategy‚ stability strategy and defensive strategy. Our company ‘Burger
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founders‚ Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak. Apple Inc. was the producer of many products but the one which put the company back in the game was the ipod‚ which was introduced in October 2001. Despite the drawbacks faced by Apple Inc.‚ they still managed to rise above their competition. In 1997 when Jobs was referred to as the Interim CEO he made a speech at an event where it was announced that Apple Inc. would have an almost entirely new board of directors‚ an aggressive advertising campaign and an alliance
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stakeholders in the industry. Analyzing the different dynamics at play in the sector has never been so interesting. The former monopoly environment has been dragged kicking and screaming into an era of almost Adam Smith-like demand and supply‚ something that it was certainly a long way from even a few years ago. So‚ what has changed on both the demand and supply sides of the equation? First‚ the demand side has finally begun to exert its rightful role in an open economic market. Under previous
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BACKGROUND Burger King History and success is a proof of excellent franchising and advertising strategies. The company starts in 1954 thanks to James McLamore and David Edgerton that have the idea of a fast-food store with always low prices. First in Miami‚ then this two entrepreneurial guys realize that advertising was the way to expand its business beyond Florida‚ with its first commercial on TV in 1958‚ when the television was in excellent popularity. With the product known by almost everyone
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