References: Amit‚ R.‚ & Schoemaker‚ P. 1993. Strategic assets and organizational rent. Strategic Management Journal‚ 14: 33-46. Barney‚ J. 1986. Strategic factor markets: Expectations‚ luck and business strategy. Management Science‚ 32: 1231-1241. Barney‚ J. 1991. Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. Journal of Management‚ 17: 99-120. Belsley‚ D.‚ Kuh‚ E.‚ & Welsch‚ R. 1980. Regression diagnostics. New York: Wiley. Black‚ J
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R.G. Spurling‚ a Baptist minister in Monroe County‚ Tennessee‚ began to search the Scriptures for answers to the problems of modernism‚ formality‚ and spiritual dryness. An initial meeting of concerned people was held on August 19‚ 1886‚ at the Barney Creek Meeting House to organize a new movement that would preach primitive church holiness and provide for reform and revival of the churches. Christian Union was the name accepted by the first eight members enrolled that day. Spurling died within
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Early Origins The Morgan banking legacy dates way back to the mid of 1800‚ when Junior S. Morgan joined the company in his late thirties that‚ in the future‚ eventually become the world renowned J.P Morgan and Co... His son‚J. Pierpont Morgan ‚ who was to be the founder of J.P Morgan and Co.‚ was the financial titan of his day‚ acting as the United States’s unofficial banker‚ recognizing its railroad and helping to form great industrial combinations‚ such as General Electrics and U.S Steels. J.P
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Slavery is the act of possessing people as property. For example‚ a southern white plantation owner forces an african american slave to work without pay and can cause any form or degree of punishment at anytime because that african american is the southern white plantation owner’s slave‚ meaning that the white person owns the african american and therefore can do anything the southern white plantation owner desires with the slave. This horrendous practice first started in America in 1619 in the american
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Arrow‚ K. (1971) Essays in the theory of risk bearing. Chicago: Markham. Barnard‚ C. (1938) The functions of the executive. Cambridge‚ MA: Harvard University Press. Barney‚ J. (1988) Agency theory‚ employee stock ownership and a firm ’s cost of equity capital. Unpublished working paper‚ Texas A&M University‚ College Station. Barney‚ J.‚ & Ouchi‚ W. (Eds.) (1986) Organizational economics. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Basu‚ A.‚ Lal‚ R.‚ Srinivasan‚ V.‚ & Staelin‚ R. (1985) Salesforce compensation plans:
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certain traits seem to be associated with entrepreneurs: * Bird - mercurial‚ that is‚ prone to insights‚ brainstorms‚ deceptions‚ ingeniousness and resourcefulness. they are cunning‚ opportunistic‚ creative‚ and unsentimental. * Busenitz and Barney - prone to overconfidence and over generalizations. * Cole - found there are four types of entrepreneur: the innovator‚ the calculating inventor‚ the over-optimistic promoter‚ and the organization builder. These types are not related to the personality
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The ratio of the water in the jug to that in the cup is 9 : 2. How much water was in the jug to start with? 7. Jill has some sheep‚ they are white to black in the ratio 3 : 4. If she has 21 white sheep‚ how many black sheep does she have? 8. Barney has 20m of wood. He uses half of it to make some shelves and then he tries to cut the remainder into 2 pieces in the ratio 3 : 5. The smallest piece is 1m 35cm. Has he made a mistake? (show your working) 9. The area of Jenny’s garden is 15m2. She
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respect (Wilkinson A et al.‚ 2001:10). SHRM points that an organization ’s human resource assets are potentially the sole source of sustainable competitive edge and much of the work in this area stems from the resource-based theory (RBT) of the firm (Barney‚ 1991‚ 1995). The resource-based theory provides conceptual basis for asserting that HR resources are key to firms ’ competitive and comparative advantage. Miller argue that operational linkages between the business strategy and the policy towards
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According to Nascar they are one of the biggest spectator sports in the US today. Who doesn’t love to watch cars zooming around a track trying to find out who is the fastest? In the late 1930’s Southern Americans were looking for some entertainment and decided to watch bootleggers race each other to see who was the fastest. By December 1947 Big Bill France organized a meeting to conceive an idea of stock car races. And by February 1948 the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing‚ otherwise
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source of competitive advantage for the firm. Jay Barney wrote‚ "Recent work on lean manufacturing suggests that it is the simultaneous combination of several factors that enables a manufacturing facility to be both very high quality and very low cost. This complicated system of numerous interrelated‚ mutually supporting small decisions is difficult to describe‚ and even more difficult to imitate‚ and thus a source of sustained competitive advantage." Barney contrasted big and small decisions further‚
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