1. What are IKEA’s firm-specific advantages? Country - specific advantages? IKEA’s firm and country specific advantages could be the following: IKEA sells the same furniture all over the world‚ so IKEA rips huge economies of scale from the size of its stores and the big production runs necessary to stock them. IKEA also offers a low competitive price because of the economies of scale (30% lower than competitors) Exclusive relationship between IKEA and its suppliers‚ offering modern and exclusive
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the websites‚ which have the explicit content. The advantages are: information‚ communication and creation. For example‚ there is a vast amount of info on the Internet which can be used both by children and adults alike. Everyone uses the Internet for e-mail or blog. And everyday lots of new creations such as websites and forums are created and people use them in accordance to the values of the other 2 advantages. The disadvantages are: people can become addicted to the Internet
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Advantages of Biomass energy. People says that biomass energy do not have any different than other energy. Biomass energy just have the same amount of carbon dioxide‚ methane released. The most famous debate is about food and biomass energy. Large areas of crop and farm land are used for growing biomass. This cultivation of crops for fuel might just put a little to much strain on our limited resources such as water and land which could be used for food crops. This biomass energy also just not economical
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Anthony Jones J. King History 171A October 31‚ 1997 WESTWARD EXPANSION The movement of people that has resulted in the settlement of America is one of the most fascinating and significant topics in the history of the United States. Nowhere else has an area of equal size been settled as a result of the initiative of small groups and individuals. Westward expansion helped stimulate the American economy. The first organized migration to California originated in Platte County‚ on the far western
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Advantages and Limitations of computer applications in Indian Banking Industry are: ADVANTAGES: E-banking: This empowers the bank to convey its administrations effectively to its top of the line clients. To make the framework easy to use to all customers‚ banks have utilized a Graphical User Interface (GUI) ‚ with this product ‚ clients can get to their bank points of interest all alone machines‚ profit exchanges starting with one record then onto the next‚ print bank explanations and ask about
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Rome’s early foreign expansion was a problem because the Romans were not prepared for their own success. There political system was only designed to govern a land based republic and was now in the situation of possessing a sea based empire as well. What was decided was the Republic gave the conquered land to the generals who had conquered them (Backman) and then by the end of the Third Punic War Rome had seized all of Greece and most of Anatolia. In 146 BCE Rome stood as the “undisputed master of
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Western Expansion DBQ Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century‚ many Americans considered the lands west of the Mississippi as the "Great American Desert" and unfit for civilization. However‚ by the mid-1840s‚ migrants from the eastern United States transformed this vast desert into a fruitful land awaiting settlement and civilization known as the frontier. The development of the frontier was the result of the mass population of the many different regions of the far West. These regions
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Late Europe had many classes to as what part of the hierarchy ladder you stood on. In modern time s we thing a Social classes is based solely off how much a money a person has acquired. One knows that American consists three social classes that being the poverty‚ middle‚ wealthy classes. Back in the late medieval times ones level of social classes had many different factors that played a role in their hierarchy. One’s estate was a major role in a person’s social status. Its either a person was
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If expansion is the true American ideal‚ the western frontier is the impetus and manifest destiny is the justification. This is Americanism at its purest: expansion across and improvement of the lands. The frontier represents an escape from urban life and directly supports Jefferson’s agrarian vision for the American economy. The agrarian myth holds that the most desirable type of society is one with an economy strongly rooted in farming. The myth suggests that a farming lifestyle is a pure one
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Developing Sustainable Competitive Advantages 1. Customer Loyalty: Customers must be committed to buying merchandise and services from a particular retailer. This can be accomplished through retail branding‚ positioning‚ and loyalty programs. A loyalty program is like a "Target card. " Now‚ when the customer uses the card as a credit card‚ Target can track all of their transactions and store it in their data warehouse‚ which keeps track of the customer’s needs and wants outside of Target. This
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