OXFORD REVIEW OF ECONOMIC POLICY. VOL. 7‚ NO. 1 THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MANAGEMENT PREROGATIVE: THE MANAGEMENT OF LABOUR RELATIONS IN THE 1980s JOHNPURCELL Templeton College‚ Oxford Downloaded from oxrep.oxfordjournals.org by guest on February 5‚ 2011 I. INTRODUCTION Restructuring and the process of deregulation has been especially marked in the field of labour relations. Institutional changes in the scope and level of collective bargaining‚ in union recognition‚ and in dispute resolution
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Porters 5 Forces: Suppliers The bargaining power of suppliers‚ one of Porter‟s Five Forces‚ can have a significant effect on an organization. Suppliers hold power over a firm when they increase prices and reduce the quality of their product and the firm cannot use their own pricing to recover these changes in costs. Switching costs is the “negative costs that a consumer incurs as a result of changing suppliers‚ brands‚ or products”. Switching costs can represent a variety of things: time and
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Porter’s five forces analysis of the Personal Computer (PC) industry In his article “The five competitive forces that shape strategy“‚ Michael Porter (2008) updates and extends his “five forces” framework he first introduced in 1979 and which has influenced the academic and business research for decades. He reaffirms that “THREAT OF ENTRY”‚ “THE POWER OF SUPPLIERS”‚ “THE POWER OF BUYERS”‚ THE THREAT OF SUBSTITUTES”‚ and “RIVALRY AMONG EXISTING COMPETITORS” are the forces that shape every
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Summary 1 Introduction 2 Porter’s Five Forces and Competitive Strategy Threat of Rivalry 3 Threat of New Entry 4 Threat of Substitute Products 5 Bargaining Power of Buyers 6 Bargaining Power of Suppliers 7 Recommendation of Porter’s Five Forces Strategies 8-9 Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions 10-13 Recommendation of Hofstede’s Cultural
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The twelve year return-on-equity data for the Tobacco Industry of 27.9% is substantially above the all-industry average of 14.1% given in the Business Week data. Examining Porters five forces reveals the keys to the Tobacco industries superior profit performance. The price customers are willing to pay for a product depends‚ in part‚ on the availability of substitutes. The absence of close substitutes in the case of cigarettes means that consumers are comparatively insensitive to price increases
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Assignment # 1 Strategic Practice Exercise: (page #81) 1. Score each competitive force in the airline industry and provide a brief rationale for your assessment. · Rivalry Among Existing Firms: (High) When one major company in an industry makes a change in costs or services that could potentially increase their clientele‚ a major competitor almost always follows suit. Price matching is a prime example of that‚ therefore the threat is high. West Jet is one company that offers flights at a discount
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decision points since strategic moves don’t have a single possible pathway. For instance‚ a pharmaceutical firm might grow its global footprint by first broadening its product arenas then using this foundation to broaden its geographic market arenas. 5. ECONOMIC LOGIC The economic logic element
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Fa-Digi Sisoko is who tells the version o epic in our textbook Fata Magan the Handsome: father of Son-Jara‚ settles in Kamalen the center of the later Manding Kingdom. A jinni appears to Fata Magan and tells him he should wed an ugly maid who is with two youths; the ugly maid will bear him a son who will rule Manding. Magan gives his sister‚ Nakana Taliba later appears as a principal Queen of Darkness‚ and a rare token in exchange for Sugulun Konde‚ the ugly maid. Sugulun Konde called "the Konde
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Environment of Digi Berhad 5.1 McKinsey’s 7s Model Digi’s strengths and weaknesses can be identified by looking at their internal environment. McKinsey’s 7s model is one of the most significant analysis can be used as a tool to analyze the internal environment of Digi. This model compresses seven main elements which includes strategy‚ structure‚ systems‚ shared values‚ skills‚ style and staff. a) Shared Value Shared value which basically what the organization stand for. DiGi is a leading
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Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place to another. Although this is a simple definition‚ when we think about how we may communicate the subject becomes a lot more complex. There are various categories of communication and more than one may occur at any time. The different categories of communication are spoken or verbal communication‚ face-to-face‚ telephone‚ radio or television and other media. Non-verbal communication: body language‚ gestures‚ how we dress
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