Threats to maintaining Scarcity: (1) Imitation – Actual and potential competitors copy superior position‚ (2) Substitution – Actions by competitors that may undermine the firm’s competitive advantage without copying it (e.g. by changing consumer preferences) Threats of Appropriability: (1) Hold-up – Diversion of the scarcity value to other players‚ (2) Slack – Dissipation of the scarcity value by complacency and related factors. Imitation Process innovation and product
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But he was not a professed critic of literature and his critical observations are not embodied in any single work. His chief ideas are contained in the Dialogues and the Republic. Both these books are philosophical. His Theory of Ideas or Imitation Plato’s view of art is intimately bound up with what is called his Theory of Ideas. Ideas‚ he MessageNeoEnglish SystemMobile EnglishPublications Assess the contribution and achievement of Plato as a critic. Plato was the first philosopher-scholar
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the years. He explains how television shows are now mostly imitations‚ they create shows off other shows with a somewhat more interesting twist making viewers more interested in watching. According to George F. Will‚ people are becoming "desensitized". Since people are becoming less easily shocked or amazed‚ television shows now are increasing the amount of degradation‚ violence‚ and sexuality. George F. Will’s main points are imitation and the shock factor. One of his examples was “Fear Factor”
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Case study 1: Resource based view of competitive Advantage 1. How specific would the identification of strategic capabilities need to be to permit them to be managed to achieve competitive advantage? Business strategy is all about competitive advantage. Businesses need strategies in order to ensure that resources are allocated in the most effective way.A firm is said to have a competitive advantage when it is implementing a value creating strategy not simultaneously being implemented
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the repetition of the acts in performativity is an imitation or miming of the dominant conventions of gender. Butler argues that “the act that one does‚ the act that one performs is‚ in a sense‚ an act that’s been going on before one arrived on the scene” (Butler‚ 1990‚ p.104).
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Representationalism and Aesthetics If one were to be provided a spectator’s view of visitors of an art museum‚ they would witness a microcosm of the appreciation of art in its entirety. Some observers of art might simply glance at a piece of artwork and shrug it off for its unaesthetic appearance‚ others might try to delve deeper into what it’s standing for. Multiple factors would possibly come into play; the audiences’ reaction‚ the inquisition into the artist’s original intention‚ and perhaps
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Disagree In comic books these days‚ superheroines are portrayed as sexists and copied of male heroes. This‚ in my opinion‚ is false. Superheroines are equally sexy as their male counterparts. Not only that‚ they promote feminine strength. They love‚ laugh‚ kill and are hurt‚ maimed or killed as regularly as their male counterparts. They are also known as feminist icons to women. They are an inspiration to women and teenagers all around the world. This is a huge step in the right direction for
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Self-Reliance and Nature The opening paragraph to Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” essay is fascinating because of the many different points of view he writes from. He goes from using the pronoun “I” to “you” to “they” to “we” and this is symbolic because he starts by talking about himself then by the end of the paragraph he puts himself and his audience in the same category. The first three sentences are in first person and he writes as though he is addressing an audience. The fourth sentence presents
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Mimesis‚ Catharsis‚ and Pleasure: An Investigation into Aristotle’s Tragic Pleasure Bradley Elicker Temple University Abstract: Aristotle writes the Poetics as an investigation into representational art and‚ more specifically‚ as an investigation into the art form of tragedy. While Aristotle goes into great detail regarding the technical aspects of creating and appreciating a work of tragedy‚ he is somewhat lacking in his descriptions of how tragedy is enjoyed by an audience. Aristotle speaks
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pattern to mimic or imitate other sea creatures in order to avoid predation (2). The discovery of the mimic octopus is noteworthy because no other type of cephalopod is known to have impersonation abilities. The octopus is also not limited to one imitation. Researchers have observed up to eight different formations. The alternations occur depending upon the appetite‚ surrounding environment‚ and proximity of predators the octopus encounters (1). In analyzing the formations‚ behaviors‚ and predators
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