Illustrate the meaning of “Sustainable Competitive Advantage”. What was the main strategy adopted by Southwest Airlines that made it successful in the airline industry? Competitive advantage is a position of a company in a competitive landscape that allows the company earning return on investments higher than the cost of investments. Competitive advantage should be relevant‚ unique and sustainable. Therefore sustainable competitive advantage‚ it’s a long-term competitive advantage that a company
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Kayla Rodney MBA 575 Case 4 Questions The University of Northwestern Ohio Jinjian Garment Factory Motivating Go-Slow Workers Piecework is a suitable form of paying employees in the garment factory‚ however it is not the best form of payment for the Shenzhen factory. The piecework system employed by the factory in Shenzhen was well suited to the nature of the work. Each worker was assigned to a specific job and earned an exact amount derived from the number of finished pieces times the price of that
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1. Eric Brinker of JetBlue noted that the database developed during the crisis had not been needed before since the company had never experienced a meltdown. What are the risks and benefits associated with this approach to IT planning? Provide some examples of each. Answer: In one hand‚ there are a lot of risk associates with the approach of an IT planning. For instance‚ in order to make an IT planning a company may need plenty of well-trained employee which require higher pay. Thus‚ the risk of
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uth-West AirlineA07-05-0006 Southwest Airlines 2005 You are now free to move about the country.™ In 2005‚ Southwest Airlines (Southwest)‚ the once-scrappy underdog in the U.S. airline industry‚ carried more domestic passengers than any other U.S. airline. The company‚ unlike all of its major competitors‚ had been consistently profitable for decades and had weathered recessions‚ energy crises‚ and the September 11 terrorist attacks. In recent years‚ Southwest had become more aggressive with its
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Final Analysis Evaluate and assess the strategic implications of your company’s finances vis-à-vis the other companies in the industry. Are there particular financial results that could impact‚ positively or negatively‚ the company’s ability to compete? How can the company leverage strong financial results or lessen the impact of weak financial results in order to compete successfully? The strategic implications of United Airlines have similarities and differences when comparing them to
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Management 4723 - Strategic Management Fall 2013 INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Lindy Archambeau‚ Visiting Assistant Professor Office: STZ 211H Tel.: 352-392-1734 Fax: Email: lindy.archambeau@warrington.ufl.edu Website: Sakai Office Hours: MW 2:00 to 3:00 PM and by appointment RESOURCES: Required Text: Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases‚ 4nd Edition; Barney and Hesterly Class Materials available at Sakai Site COURSE DESCRIPTION This course focuses on the analysis
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Assignment # 1 Strategic Practice Exercise: (page #81) 1. Score each competitive force in the airline industry and provide a brief rationale for your assessment. · Rivalry Among Existing Firms: (High) When one major company in an industry makes a change in costs or services that could potentially increase their clientele‚ a major competitor almost always follows suit. Price matching is a prime example of that‚ therefore the threat is high. West Jet is one company that offers flights at a discount
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Air Canada – Risk Management Case Report Industry Overview The airline industry is one of the largest global industries in the world. Airline companies in the airline industry have gone through challenging obstacles in the past decade. Many changes have occurred within the industry and increased regulations have driven up cost for the industry. The attacks on 9/11 left the industry in shock when planes were used in terrorist attacks in the United States. These attacks changed the mentality
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Table of Content 1 Introduction ............................................................................................... 1 2 What are the characteristics of the airline industry? ................................. 2 3 Which were the most important trends and developments in the airline industries’ past shaping the current future? .............................................. 4 4 Which trends and developments can be identified in the current airline industry that will
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Chapter 1 Introducing Financial Accounting Learning Objectives – coverage by question | |Mini-exercises |Exercises |Problems |Cases | | |25 |29‚ 33 | |45‚ 46 | |LO1 – Identify the users of accounting information | | | |
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