Arcelik: International Aspirations of an Emerging Market Firm Arcelik‚ a Turkish appliance manufacturer controlled by Turkey’s largest conglomerate company named Kroc Group. From the beginning‚ Arcelik products more than half of Turkey’s appliances‚ including air conditioners‚ dishwashers machines‚ cooking appliances‚ and refrigerators. But since trade barriers declined in 1980s and 1990s‚ many competitors such as BSH‚ Haier‚ General Electronic‚ Whirlpool‚ and Electrolux were threatening Arcelik’s
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL ECP004N A STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL MARKETING STRATEGIES THAT HELP FIRMS TO ACHIEVE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: JAPANESE FIRMS BEING SUCCESSFUL IN INDIA SINCE 1980 ID NUMBER : 06035100 MODULE CODE: ECP004N JAN 11-2008 INDEX INTRODUCTION AIMS & OBJECTIVES LITERATURE REVIEW METHODOLOGY RESOURCES REFERENCE Introduction At a first level and referring especially
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Bristol and Liverpool: The demise and rise of rival ports in the eighteenth century slave trade. In the early eighteenth century‚ Bristol’s dominant position as a slave trading port remained virtually unchallenged. Yet‚ by the end of the century‚ Liverpool firmly established its status as Britain’s leading slave trading port‚ surpassing Bristol completely. Despite some similarities between the rival ports‚ a number of factors‚ decisions and circumstances serve to explain Liverpool’s magnificent
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Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage Jay Barney Texas A&M University TABLE OF CONTENT I. Introduction Understanding sources of sustained competitive advantage has become a major area of research in strategic management. II. Defining key concepts 1) Firm resources 2) Competitive advantage 3) Sustained competitive advantage III. Competition with Homogeneous and Perfectly Mobile Resources Examining the role of immobile form resources in creating sustained competitive
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Marketing & Firm Performance” Leslie M. Fine‚ author of “The Bottom Line: Marketing & Firm Performance‚” analyzes how marketing relates to how well the firm does overall. A majority of the article is focused on how customer relations’ impact firm performance and can affect shareholder wealth. Firms improving customer equity and reducing the firm’s cash needs‚ will influence the net present value of the firm. Within recent years‚ there has been an increase in the awareness that firms should be able
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of Debt Capital for Private Firms: Evidence from Finland Jukka Karjalainen Department of Business University of Eastern Finland April 10‚ 2010 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the value relevance of the perceived audit quality in terms of who audits‚ as well as the audit outcomes in terms of the auditor’s opinion and accruals quality‚ in the pricing of debt capital for privately-held firms by examining a large sample of privately-held Finnish firms. The findings indicate that
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service or a company (Johansson‚ 2006). Those markets are not only defined within country boarders‚ but are also defined by buyer preferences that are similar across countries. Recently‚ going global becomes a trend. As Crespy (1986) indicated‚ firms should turn themselves into global corporations otherwise they will lose out to the new wave. Therefore‚ not only big sized business‚ even the smallest businesses have already extended their businesses to foreign markets. One of the best examples is
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It has one major part‚ corporate culture‚ often described as the “personality of an organization”. In that case multinational firms play a major role in this‚ as knowing how to communicate through their point of view is a great advantage. To answer the relevant question it is essential to understand what the corporate culture is especially its meanings to a multinational firm. This essay will examine it by explaining the cultural dimensions of G. Hofstede in general and in respect of global business
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Empirical Evidence on Retail Firms’ Equity Valuation Models Anastasia Vardavaki 13 Epidavrou str.‚ Halandri‚ 152 33 Athens‚ Greece E-mail: anastasia_vardavaki@yahoo.gr John Mylonakis 10 Nikiforou str.‚ Glyfada‚ 166 75 Athens‚ Greece E-mail: imylonakis@panafonet.r Abstract This paper presents the theoretical framework for the process of equity valuation and investigates the relative explanatory power of alternative linear equity valuation models when applied to firms in the UK food and drug retail
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How Firms Avoid Losses: Evidence of Use of the Net Deferred Tax Asset Account David Burgstahler* University of Washington Gerhard G. Mueller Endowed Professor in Accounting W. Brooke Elliott University of Washington Michelle Hanlon University of Michigan Business School November 26‚ 2002 _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT: This paper investigates whether firms use discretion in accounting for deferred taxes to increase earnings
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