2 BUSINESS POLICY AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Learning Objectives • • • • • Learn what business policy and strategy is all about. Know the framework and importance of strategic management. Know the strategic management process. Have an understanding of corporate vision and mission. Learn how strategy operates at different levels of the organization. Without a strategy the organization is like a ship without a rudder. Joel Ross and Michael Kami Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle
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THE THEORY OF THE FIRM Notes by:Ramon Somar THE THEORY OF THE FIRM Even though managerial economics is not concerned solely with the management of business firms‚ this is its principal field of application. To apply managerial economics to business management‚ we need a theory of the firm‚ a theory indicating how firms behave and what their goals are. The concept of the firm plays a central role in the theory and practice of managerial economics. An understanding of the reason for the existence
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Growth Complex Orientation According to the growth complex orientation‚ the purpose of the criminal justice system is to build an ever growing bureaucracy; administering justice and controlling crime are tools that are used to increase the agency’s size and power (Kraska‚ 2004). In an effort to meet the organizational ends in the most efficient way‚ scientific methods are established in order to create rules and regulations‚ which will get everyone to perform their duties in the same technically
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The Resources of the Firm These resources may be divided by 3 categories 1. Tangible resources include land‚ buildings‚ plant and machinery. Example‚ Toyota’s Tangible resources It is not different from other companies‚ such as Financial: the ability to raise funds‚ a loan and issue stock to raise capital. Technological: patents‚ trademarks and copyright and trade secrets‚ etc. Physical: such as buildings‚ machinery‚ plant‚ equipment‚ research and development as well as all raw materials
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05/08/2012 Last topic: THEORY OF THE FIRM Topic 5 Market Structures (I) Nature of the firm Theory of production Fixed v/s Variable factors Time periods Product concepts – TR‚ AR‚ and MR Product curves & Economic intuition Theory of costs – Short Run TC‚ FC and VC (AFC‚ AVC and SAC) SAC and SMC Cost curves & Economic intuition Relationship between product and cost curves Theory of costs – Long Run TC LAC and LMC Cost curves & Economic intuition Economies and Diseconomies of scale Theory
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Introduction to Strategy Objective: Assess how firms create value and how they go about building and sustaining competitive advantage in different markets. Competencies: Quantitative Literacy Critical Thinking Week 1 October 3 – October 9‚ 2012 Required Reading • Collis‚ D.J.‚ & Montgomery‚ C.A. (1995‚ July/August). Competing on resources: Strategy in the 1990s. Harvard Business Review‚ 73 (4). (Custom Textbook (2012)‚ Managing Strategy in the Global Marketplace. Chapter 21.) • Porter‚ M.E. (1996)
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The decisions of one firm therefore influence and are influenced by the decisions of other firms. Strategic planning by oligopolists needs to take into account the likely responses of the other market participants. Description[edit] Oligopoly is a common market form where a small number of firms are in competition. As a quantitative description of oligopoly‚ the four-firm concentration ratio is often utilized. This measure expresses the market share of the four largest firms in an industry as a
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1. Introduction This essay will focus on the case analysis of the political economy in South Korea and how it has influenced the foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Korea after the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2007. It will give a brief introduction of what the political economy is. And then a case study will be provided about the political system‚ the legal system and the economic system in South Korea and the interconnectedness of these three systems and their influence on the environment
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Objective function of firm: y-w-β+κ‚ for which β=ũy‚κ=dka Production Function: y=ka The objective function of firm has been added two functions based on the basic model‚ -β and +κ‚ showing the cost and the benefit of non monetary rewards respectively. They are allocated in the firm’s objective function‚ because the firm is the sender of the rewards‚ which the firm will have a cost and benefit of the reward from the worker. β is a negative function‚ since it is the cost of non monetary rewards
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Economics – Features of Partnership Firms There are different forms of business organizations and a partnership firm is one among such organizations. Partnership is the relationship between two or more persons who have agreed to share the profits of the business carried on by all or any one or more of them acting for all. The following are the characteristics or features of any partnership firm: 1. Contract: It is formed on voluntary basis by means of an agreement agreed between two or more
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