International Business Environment Spring Semester 2013 Instructor: Mustafa MAMMADOV‚ PhD Hours: 18:30-21:00 Contact email: mustafa160705@yahoo.com Day: Monday/Wednesday Room: 421 Books: International Business by Charles Hill‚ 4 edition; International Business by John D. Daniels‚ Lee H. Radebaugh‚ Daniel P. Sullivan; 10th edition Recommended reading: Global marketing management‚ 2nd edition by Brian Toyne and Peter G.P
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Paint industry Threats of new entrants For a dominant paint manufacturing company which is spread allover India‚ local players act as a very huge threat to them. With a small place for factory and an effective distribution system the local players may pose themselves a huge competition for these nationalized companies. As the local players do not mind quality but sell products for cheap rates they grab more attention of middle class people in India who are of majority. But if the major
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STRATEGY HUMMAN REURCE AND MANAGEMENT Human resource management is concord with the management of the employees of in organisation. What is human resource management? * HRM is he management process concerned with efficient and effective utilisation of the organisations employees through the development of policies procedure practices so that the objectives of the organisation are achieved in the long term. * SHRM therefore implies that the organisation must have the
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Annecke‚ W 2003. One Man One Megawatt‚ One Woman One Candle: Women‚ Gender and Energy in South Africa with a focus on research. Unpublished PhD thesis‚ University of Natal‚ Durban. Annecke‚ W. 1999. The role of electrification in the development of small and microenterprises‚ paper presented at the Association for Women in Development‚ Washington DC‚ 10- 14 November Annecke‚ W. 1992. An in-depth investigation into the use of domestic fuels by urban women in three areas in the Durban
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Abdullah Coskun MQM 385 – Section 6 DELL The Personal Computer Industry The personal computer industry is a very highly competitive industry. There are many companies out there that are manufacturing personal computers. IBM launched its first PC in the year 1981and in two years was able to hold 42% of the market. As demand for IBM PC’s went through the roof‚ many other competitors started entering the market. Most of these companies relied on resellers and retailers to reach their consumers
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PORTER’S FIVE FORCES Threat of new entrants Existence of barriers to entry are low Few new firms can enter and non-performing firms can exit easily 3D printing will lower barriers to market entry and will enable innovative start-ups to target the market using crowd-funding.. Free R&D also dramatically lowers the barriers to entry. Capital requirements - Lower costs of technology equipment. First‚ AM reduces the capital required to achieve economies of scale. Second‚ it increases flexibility and
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Threat of Substitutes The threat of substitutes is high. Amazon.com is in the Internet Services and Retailing Industry. With the exception of its patented technology (such as 1-Click Ordering)‚ there are quite a lot of alternatives to Amazon’s products and services. It is important to note that most companies‚ in addition to brick and mortar stores‚ have an online store. Both the physical store and online store act as a substitute for Amazon.com because brick and mortar companies do not compete
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various frameworks‚ matrices and models. Porter’s Five Forces The attractiveness of the Industry in 1998 can be gauged by the use of Porter’s Five Forces Framework for Industrial Analysis. The Five Force Framework‚ which was unveiled by Michael E. Porter‚ of Harvard University‚ in his book‚ Competitive Strategy (1980) is used in understanding the attractiveness of an industry environment for the “average” competitor within it (Ghemawat‚ 2002). The Five Forces recognised by Porter include: 1
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reputation and awareness Apple Inc. has developed both band equity and brand awareness among the consumers in the electronic industry for nearly forty years. The brand equity of Apple Inc. will allow iwatch to be priced at a high rate due to the value the consumer will place in the product. Current Apple user and potential Apple consumers will want to buy an iwatch due to their brand awareness to Apple Inc. They have used more than one device of Apple‚ and they think that Apple fulfill their physical
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Industry The Games Console market is a volatile industry with changes of market leadership happening frequently as new Consoles and games are released . Each new console generation‚ which typically lasts 5–7 years‚ experiences significant changes in market share.[citation needed] For example‚ although the Nintendo NES enjoyed a 90% market share during the 8-bit era‚[citation needed] this dropped to approximately 60% after the 16-bit era‚ with Sega being responsible for the majority of this change
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