transport‚ distribution‚ healthcare‚ children care‚ entertainment food services‚ as well as other service-dominated businesses. Strategy: - defined in respect to the Resource Based View process - Strategy is about exploiting the strategic capability of an organization‚ in terms of its resources and competences‚ to provide competitive advantage and/ or yield new opportunities We will present to you arguments in three main areas‚ proving that the RBV is the right approach to Strategy development
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Distinctive Competencies The VRIO analysis is helpful in determining if a resource or capability leads to competitive advantage (Middleton‚ 2004). Resources/Capabilities Valuable? Rare? Costly to Imitate? Exploited by Organization Competitive Implications Strength or Weakness Key Account Management Initiative Yes Yes Yes Yes Sustained Competitive Advantage Strength and Sustainable Distinctive Competence Recruitment Process Yes Yes No No Temporary Competitive Advantage Strength and Distinctive
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Marketing the Country A. Introduction In the past few months‚ news of the Department of Tourism’s (DOT) new slogan for attracting tourists into the country quickly spread. Apparently‚ the DOT’s replacement for “WOW Philippines” is “Pilipinas‚ Kay Ganda”. The tourism department received a lot of criticisms about the change. Critics questioned the rationale behind the change and whether using the local language will attract tourists. WOW Philippines has been used in the past years and was an effective
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"The failure of Feminism" by Kay Ebeling talks about her personal beliefs towards feminism. Kay Ebeling believes that men benefited the feminist movement more that women have. The feminist movement was to promote gender equality but as a result‚ women felt like prisoners. In the beginning of the text‚ Kay Ebeling describes the blind date that she was on. I personally believe she painted that picture for us as readers to show how men are richer. On page 169 she states " I am too from that Experimental
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Grandpa’s soup Why is her Grandpa’s soup so important to the poet? In my opinion the soup made by the Grandfather is important to the poet‚ because she is describing a good memory she has of her own Grandfather in real life. Often Grand-parents cook for their grandchildren and this can have a positive effect on the child’s relationship with them‚ but also help them explore new foods which have been home cooked sometimes to the family member’s own recipe. In the first paragraph of the poem the
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coming of Yams and Mangoes and Mountain Honey” and “Grandpas soup” in light of this statement. The two texts that are associated with emotion in the anthology are both poems‚ Grandpa’s Soup by Jackie Kay and The Coming of Yams and Mangoes and Mountain Honey by James Berry. Grandpa’s Soup is about Kay recalling her own childhood memories of spending time with her grandfather in Scotland‚ this is similar to The Coming of Yams and Mangoes and Mountain Honey in the respect that Berry is also recalling
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a small area called Tin Pan Alley. Radios initially provided the young century’s second uppercut to the music publishing business of Tin Pan Alley. Burton Lane was part of a well-known Cape Town-based duo‚ who delivered a powerful‚ emotive and distinctive blend of acoustic rock stated‚ "Tin Pan Alley was a real alley on East Fourteenth Street near Third (in New York). But it was never just a place‚ Tin Pan Alley was known for an era of songwriting‚ when many musical ideas mixed together to form American
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in the case. According to Keller(1993) the effective brand positioning gives a brand a competitive advantage or “unique selling proposition” that determines a reason why consumers are buying this product or service (Keller‚ 1993). Similarly‚ Kay (2004) argues that brand’s strength depends on its successful positioning within consumers’ mind. Furthermore‚ it is claimed that strong brands should possess “difference” and “consistency”‚ however the difference should be meaningful for consumers
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Matoussi. "Measuring agricultural productivity growth in MENA countries." Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics 1.4 (2009): 103-113. Bernstein H. (2009). ‘Agrarian questions from transition to globalization’. In A. H. Akram-Lodhi and C. Kay (eds.) Peasants and Globalization: Political economy‚ rural transformation and the agrarian question. London: Routledge‚ 239-261 Bush‚ Ray Byres‚ T. (2003) ‘Paths of Capitalist Agrarian Transition in the Past and in the Contemporary World’‚ chapter
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inimitable resources (VRI) capabilities: What leads to competitive advantage? Nuno Cardeal1* and Nelson António2 1 Católica-Lisbon School of Business Economics‚ Universidade Católica Portuguesa‚ Palma de Cima‚ Lisbon‚ Portugal. 2 ISCTE-IUL Lisbon‚ Av. Forças Armadas‚ Lisbon‚ Portugal. Accepted 13 July‚ 2012 The resource-based view (RBV) argues that valuable‚ rare‚ inimitable resources and organization (VRIO) lead to competitive advantage. Dynamic capabilities (DC) are a comparatively new
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