What are capabilities? What must firms do to create capabilities? Capability is a capacity for a set of resources to integratively perform a stretch task. It represents the identity of the firm as perceived by both its employees and customers. It is the firm’s ability to perform better than competitors using a distinctive and difficult to replicate set of business attributes. The organization’s capability is comprised of three core assets – physical capital‚ including all tangible assets; technology
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Negative Capability ’The concept of Negative Capability is the ability to contemplate the world without the desire to try and reconcile contradictory aspects or fit it into closed and rational systems.’ Keats was a romantic poet‚ full of intense passion and desire‚ yet shy and reserved. He was a young man with all the determination and melancholy of a teenager on a romantic quest to be among the English poets when he died. He is an inspiration to all of us‚ full of colourful language and imagination
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textile industry contributes to economic growth in the global economy. Because textile manufacturing is a labor-intensive industry‚ developing countries are able to utilize their labor surplus to enter the market and begin the process of building an industrial economy. Emerging economies then look outward to develop an export strategy based on their comparative advantage in labor costs. Textile production and consumption is an increasingly global affair as production continues to shift to developing
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My Favorite Place My favorite place is very general. It is very peaceful‚ and is full of nature. So the beach is my Favorite place that I always like to spend my time there‚ especially one vacation during summer. I still Remember the time I went to the Sihanouk Ville beach for a week‚ and people another countries‚ people In Cambodia enjoy going there So Much. As it a common on place to visit‚ it is a good place for people who want to spend time on vacation for relaxing with fresh air
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Money makes the world go round‚ so they say. In the past‚ many would disagree on this thought. Who knew that a piece of paper would rule the world? Economy is like the study of money‚ basically; money which dictates what happens in our lives. It is the reason for almost everything in existence‚ from lifestyles to resources. As sad as it may seem‚ it is the reason why we live; in order to generate enough money for us to sustain our lives and get the most out of it. Today‚ everything has its price
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Global Economy is the economy of the world considered as the international exchange of goods. It is also what holds the world’s economy together and can decrease over time. Sometimes it can go wrong and cause catastrophic proportions. There is no apical market to help evaluate certain goods or services. The economy has changed since 9-11. it’s as if nothing happened from that day forward. the United States was coming off a recession stemming from a bursting bubble‚ consumer confidence was declining
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absolute monarch and medieval ideas to a more Enlightened country over the course of 350 years. They improved in their government‚ economy‚ and science rapidly during the 1700s. They became more innovative and expanded on things they already knew to make their country more efficient. Denmark-Norway’s economy for example‚ has improved a lot over the 1700s to 1850. Their economy drastically declined during the Napoleonic Wars even though trade became better since the other armies would need their
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Technological change is an increase in the efficiency of a product of a product or process that result in an increase in output. Structural unemployment occurs when a firm is looking for a worker and an unemployed worker is looking for a job‚ but the particular characteristics the firm us looking for do not match up with the characteristics the worker offers. Technological change is one source of structural unemployment. First‚ the impact of technology on employment is that there will be massive
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produce 500‚000 pounds of cotton which can yield around 1.3 Million T-Shirts. Most Cotton farms receive Government subsidies allowing them to pump out even more cotton without fear of losing profit. These subsidies pose a threat to smaller developing countries who complain that it’s impossible to compete with U.S. cotton because farmers are receiving government assistance which their own governments could never match. These unhappy countries reported to the World Trade Organization claiming that the
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Protection refers to any action by a national government that gives domestic producers an advantage over foreign competitors. In general‚ the amount of protection between countries has been declining due to a range of factors such as trade agreements which allows countries to benefit from free trade. However‚ there are many policies that a country can adopt to increase protection of trade such as tariffs and quotas in order to protect the domestic producers. Since WWII‚ many international organizations
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