International Borrowing at Carrefour S.A. Briefly discuss the background of Carrefour SA and its financing practices. What are the borrowing alternatives? Carrefour S.A. is operating as a chain of hypermarkets‚ combining a supermarket‚ drugstore‚ discount store and gas station. Carrefour is originating from France‚ however‚ during 40 years it has expanded its operations to ten other European countries‚ six South and North American countries and nine Asian countries. The largest sales and profits
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Amartya Sen‚ an Indian economist and political philosopher‚ first articulated the “The Capability Approach” in the late 1970s and 1980s in order to create an alternative and new framework of thinking and evaluating issues of poverty‚ development‚ well-being and equality by embracing complexity‚ plurality and individualism with the aim to not overlook anything. Through his creation of the Capability Approach‚ Sen shows that his primary concern is to create a pluralistic conception of poverty and development
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powerfully motivate employees to work and share knowledge and adopt a play-safe strategy in internationalization. As for the number two player—Carrefour‚ they provide customers with one-stop shopping‚ lowest price‚ fresh products‚ self-served shopping in a hypermarket with free parking lots. In contrast to Wal-Mart’s internationalization strategy‚ Carrefour expands to foreign markets faster and more flexible than their counterpart. Wal-Mart founded by Sam Walton adopted circumventing strategy
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AN ESSAY ON the OPTIONS FOR the ADF TO strike the correct balance between the development of a joint amphibious capability and the raising‚ training and sustaining of the rest of its suite of capabilities? By U5172061 Introduction The Department of Defence is currently facing one of the most challenging situations since its conception. On one hand‚ the environment suggests Australia is entering time of increased strategic competition between major powers in our region.1 This has the potential
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Examine the advantages and challenges of developing a strategy for competitive advantage based on resources and capabilities. Illustrate your answer with appropriate examples. In lights of changing technical advancements‚ cut-throat competitions and unstable global economic conditions‚ managers need to consider strategies to sustain competitive advantage more frequently then ever. And no matter how organized their companies are and which industries they are working in‚ they can quickly start by
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International Journal of Innovation Management Vol. 5‚ No. 3 (September 2001) pp. 377–400 © Imperial College Press DEVELOPING INNOVATION CAPABILITY IN ORGANISATIONS: A DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES APPROACH BENN LAWSON Department of Accounting‚ The University of Melbourne Victoria‚ 3010‚ Australia e-mail: blawson@unimelb.edu.au DANNY SAMSON Department of Management‚ The University of Melbourne Victoria‚ 3010‚ Australia e-mail: d.samson@unimelb.edu.au Received 1 February 2001 Revised 18
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customers or other data source. Carrefour marketers use geographic segmentation because they know where to sell their product to increase advertising and sales effect. For example‚ there are different numbers of population among each state in Malaysia then Selangor state consist of most highest population with 51026000 peoples. Therefore‚ Carrefour should put more attention in Selangor state as the geographic in Selangor is stronger compare than other state. Carrefour outlet at Selangor state are Subang
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McDonald’s Organizational Capabilities A.) One of McDonald’s organizational capabilities is the emphasis they place on their leadership practices and the extensive leadership programs they offer. According to an article by Joan Gallos regarding McDonald’s leadership practices‚ “It starts with having high standards. When we talk about people being ‘ready now’ and ‘ready future’‚ the ‘ready now’ candidate has to be someone who can be better than the incumbent over time. And‚ if every time you have
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Carrefour adopted several good strategies that contributed to their success in China. They placed a strong focus on their pricing strategies‚ choice of location‚ supplier control‚ localization‚ and their supply chain management. In order for Carrefour to reduce operational costs and enhance their product line‚ they adopted a system‚ the Global Procurement System‚ in which centers were obtained to find low cost suppliers for the company’s hypermarkets around the world. As China’s products grew
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Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/csr.251 Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: A ‘Dynamic Capabilities’ Perspective Venugopal Ramachandran* Insitute for Financial Management and Research‚ Chennai‚ India ABSTRACT In this paper‚ strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) is defined on the basis of Porter’s theory of competitive advantage. Two kinds of dynamic capabilities are proposed as the precursors to strategic CSR success and operationalized in terms of two sets of associated
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