wisdom of the strategic management literature. It is often claimed that a company’s corporate-level strategy sets the context for its business level strategy. Our position is that if a corporate level strategy is to succeed‚ the reverse should be the case. That is‚ the process of establishing a sustainable competitive advantage at the business level defines the set of appropriate corporate-level strategies. Another theme stressed in the chapter is that the existence of bureaucratic diseconomies implies
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Marketing Strategy of Comair in South Africa Comair is South Africa’s longest non-national carrier (Comair Airways Limited‚ 2012). Comair Limited is an airline that operates two brands: British Airways and Kulula.com. British Airways is aimed at business travellers and the high class society while Kulula.com is aimed at leisure and middle class passengers. British Airways has two offerings‚ Club (business class) and Traveller (economy class). Club facilitates for the more elite customer and Traveller
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3 2.2. The Universities: 4 2.3. Commercial Publishers: 5 2.4. The South African accreditation system – the heart of the problem: 6 3. POSSIBLE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION: 7 4. CONCLUSION: 9 5. REFERENCES: 9 SCHOLARLY JOURNAL PUBLISHING IN SOUTH AFRICA 1. INTRODUCTION This paper deals with the scholarly publishing industry‚ which is one of the backbones of the research and innovation infrastructure in South Africa. It is specifically focused on academic journal publishing. Being an
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Trek‚ when Boers‚ armed with a sense of racial superiority and difference from the British‚ embarked on their grand historical emigration. But how did these feelings morph into an extreme ideology that led to the severe oppression of the indigenous South African peoples? I cannot help but be reminded of the Germans after WWI‚ hyperinflation‚ and what they perceived to be a delayed national unification - ravaged by seemingly endless tragedy‚ they became susceptible to cultural mythologies that allowed
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bigger decrease in the demand for unskilled labour. Labour Laws: Current labour laws are very rigid‚ thus preventing employment especially in small enterprises. Eg: Domestic Workers Law: R1250 per month plus fringe benefits. Labour Laws in South Africa also make it very difficult to dismiss or retrench workers. Also hiring of workers has to comply with racial and gender quotas. Most workers are also pressured to join a trade union. To solve these problems many workers are employed by businesses
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all my classmates‚ for being such a great team throughout the course. ABSTRACT This thesis helps in managing Telecom FDI risks in the emerging economies. This study was specifically conducted on the Telecom industry risks‚ that affect its foreign direct investment‚ into emerging economies. Associated risks involved in this case were analysed‚ and the situation in the FDI context was evaluated. In other words each associated risk was identified‚ and ways to measure and analyse it were suggested
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direct investment (FDI) over the last 30 years. Carefully evaluate the alternative investment patterns that are emerging to challenge this. Foreign direct investment is when companies or individuals from one country invest directly to a company based in a different country.1 China was for many years the country attracting the largest amounts of FDI‚ amongst developing countries but according to Forbes2 in 2012 it surpassed the United States to become the country attracting more FDI than any other country
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…………………………………………….. 3 Introduction ………………………………………………………3 UAE Foreign Direct investment statistics …………………….. 4 Government policy on FDI…………………………………….. 7 DETERMINANTS OF FDI IN UAE………………………….8 COUNTRIES THAT INVEST IN UAE……………………….9 CASSIA ENGINEERING’S FDI INTO UAE………………..9 BENEFITS ……………………………………………………..10 PROBLEMS FACED BY CASSIA……………………………10 THE DIRECTION OF FDI IN UAE ……………………….11 Conclusion……………………………………………………..12 References…………………………………………………….14 UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG in DUBAI
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This is evidenced by both Apartheid in South Africa and the Holocaust during World War Two. Both of them were massive examples of racial discrimination‚ and violent racial discrimination at that. When racial discrimination turns violent it is potentially physically detrimental to everyone involved
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STRATEGIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY: “South Star Drug” South Star Drug is a chain of drugstores in the Philippines. It was established in 1937 as a small business venture engaged in the retail of Chinese herbal medicines‚ located in Naga City‚ Philippines. Today‚ South Star Drug‚ otherwise known as SSD‚ belongs to the top 1‚000 corporations of the Philippines. It has spread out its outlets with 143 branches in all found in various parts of Central Luzon‚ Southern Tagalog‚ Metro Manila and
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