Q4) what are the advantages and disadvantages to a firm of operating on a large scale? Economies of scale fall under microeconomics and are the cost advantages a business obtains due to expansion. As scale is increased they cause a producers average cost per unit to fall. Microeconomics (from Greek prefix micro- meaning "small" and "economics") is a branch of economics in which you study the behaviour of how the individual firms make decisions to allocate limited resources. Normally‚ it applies
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Gray Case: Moss and McAdams Accounting Firm 1. If you were Palmer at the end of the case‚ how would you respond? If I were in Palmer’s position‚ I would accept Sands and Olds choice and move on as the bottom line is to work towards accomplishing the organization’s goals. Considering the toll the situation had on Olds‚ it would be only fair to grant his wish and ensure that things get back right on track. In addition‚ I would also persuade Sands to find someone who has a skill set close to
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Changes in the macro environment affect individual firms and industries through the microeconomic factors of demand‚ production‚ cost‚ and profitability. Drawing on current business publications‚ find some updated facts for each case that support this theme. Drawing on current business publications and the two cases in this chapter it is prevalent that several changes in the macro environment have had an effect on the profitability of individual firms and industries. The text states that (Farnham‚ 2010
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL ECP004N A STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL MARKETING STRATEGIES THAT HELP FIRMS TO ACHIEVE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: JAPANESE FIRMS BEING SUCCESSFUL IN INDIA SINCE 1980 ID NUMBER : 06035100 MODULE CODE: ECP004N JAN 11-2008 INDEX INTRODUCTION AIMS & OBJECTIVES LITERATURE REVIEW METHODOLOGY RESOURCES REFERENCE Introduction At a first level and referring especially
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Arcelik: International Aspirations of an Emerging Market Firm Arcelik‚ a Turkish appliance manufacturer controlled by Turkey’s largest conglomerate company named Kroc Group. From the beginning‚ Arcelik products more than half of Turkey’s appliances‚ including air conditioners‚ dishwashers machines‚ cooking appliances‚ and refrigerators. But since trade barriers declined in 1980s and 1990s‚ many competitors such as BSH‚ Haier‚ General Electronic‚ Whirlpool‚ and Electrolux were threatening Arcelik’s
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gradually reduced from 8‚300 employees in 2003 to approximately 4‚200 in 2010.Additionally‚ production had to be relocated to places closer to its natural markets. As a consequence of all these changes‚ LEGO transformed itself from a manufacturing firm to a market-oriented company that is capable of reacting fast to changing global demand. LEGO’s restructuring process‚ coupled with double-digit sales growth in the past few years‚ has led to the company’s expansion abroad and made its workforce more
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Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage Jay Barney Texas A&M University TABLE OF CONTENT I. Introduction Understanding sources of sustained competitive advantage has become a major area of research in strategic management. II. Defining key concepts 1) Firm resources 2) Competitive advantage 3) Sustained competitive advantage III. Competition with Homogeneous and Perfectly Mobile Resources Examining the role of immobile form resources in creating sustained competitive
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Marketing & Firm Performance” Leslie M. Fine‚ author of “The Bottom Line: Marketing & Firm Performance‚” analyzes how marketing relates to how well the firm does overall. A majority of the article is focused on how customer relations’ impact firm performance and can affect shareholder wealth. Firms improving customer equity and reducing the firm’s cash needs‚ will influence the net present value of the firm. Within recent years‚ there has been an increase in the awareness that firms should be able
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of Debt Capital for Private Firms: Evidence from Finland Jukka Karjalainen Department of Business University of Eastern Finland April 10‚ 2010 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the value relevance of the perceived audit quality in terms of who audits‚ as well as the audit outcomes in terms of the auditor’s opinion and accruals quality‚ in the pricing of debt capital for privately-held firms by examining a large sample of privately-held Finnish firms. The findings indicate that
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service or a company (Johansson‚ 2006). Those markets are not only defined within country boarders‚ but are also defined by buyer preferences that are similar across countries. Recently‚ going global becomes a trend. As Crespy (1986) indicated‚ firms should turn themselves into global corporations otherwise they will lose out to the new wave. Therefore‚ not only big sized business‚ even the smallest businesses have already extended their businesses to foreign markets. One of the best examples is
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