Architecturai Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms Rebecca M. Henderson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kim B. Clark Harvard University This paper demonstrates that the traditional categorization of innovation as either incremental or radical is incomplete and potentially misleading and does not account for the sometimes disastrous effects on industry incumbents of seemingly minor improvements in technological products. We examine
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Question no. 01. Did the authors conclude that firms had been using significantly higher level of debt from 1995 through 1999? Ans. Yes‚ the authors concluded that firms had been using significantly higher level of debt from 1995 through 1999. According to the authors‚ the build-up of debt in the late 1990s raised concerns about the U.S. nonfinancial corporate sector’s health and vulnerability to economic downturns. It had been seen that‚ between 1995 and 1999 the outstanding
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For example‚ CSR may cause additional cost to business‚ and the explicit costs of corporate social responsibly are minimal (Moskowitz‚ 1972). If CSR can affect a corporation‚ it can also make impact in industries. Telecommunication industry is a big market in Hong Kong in which the largest teleport in Asia (Boulton‚ 2001). Some newspaper report had shown that Hong Kong people who own the most mobile phones in the world. According to the Telecommunications Authority announced the latest telecommunications
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Case 7.4 Oligopoly or Monopolistic Competition Big firms and little firms: the case of bakeries Despite barriers to entry of other large-scale firms‚ many oligopolies face competition at the margin from many small firms. The reason for this is that the small firms often produce a specialist product or serve a local market. These small firms are in a position somewhat like monopolistic competition: they produce a differentiated product and face few if any entry barriers themselves. A good example
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have identifying market segments‚ selecting one or more of them‚ and developing products and marketing programs tailored to each. If the company wants to focus their target marketing‚ they must follow the three major steps: 1. Market segmentation‚ which is dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers with different needs characteristics‚ or behaviour who might require separate products or marketing mixes. 2. Market targeting‚ which is evaluating each market segment’s attractiveess
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Why are firefighting services usually provided by the government and not by private firms? First of all‚ the fire services is a kind of public goods‚ public goods means the goods that no matter whether the individuals are willing to buy‚ each member of the whole society can benefit from. It is produced by the public sector or it is a product‚ provided by the government‚ that the private are unwilling or unable to manufacture‚ including international security‚ police‚ fire services‚ roads
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the way in which its market structure affects the ability for firms to set prices and to make profits. (16 marks) Market structure is the state of a market with respect to the degree of competition amongst buyers and sellers. The market structure of the industry helps to determine its ability to set prices and make profits. The UK airline industry contains a number of different types of companies from budget airlines to private jets‚ but is essentially is an Oligopoly. This is due to the
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Perfect competition is a market structure characterized by a large number of buyers and sellers of essentially the same product. The firms produce a standardized product and there is a free entry and exit of these firms to and from the industry. The firm in a purely competitive market faces a perfectly elastic demand curve at the price determined by equilibrium in the market (Hirschey 379). The firm in a short-run supply curve is the short-run marginal cost curve above the minimum point on the average
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Contemporary Issues in Business Topic 4: The importance or otherwise understanding cultural issues for business firms operating internationally. Contents Introduction 3 Why firms want to do business internationally? 3 1. Main problems of doing business internationally 4 1.1. What is culture? 5 1.2. Which factor had company look at when it arrives to another county? 5 1.2.1 The employees are doing business internationally 6 1.2.2. The company is developing its
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Rupavilas Patel Kaplan University Unit 1 Assignment Chapter 1 5 What role does professional research play within an accounting firm or department? Who primarily conducts the research? Professional research‚ if carried out properly‚ gives an accounting professional the tools need to investigate and assess an issue or problem that a client‚ business‚ or government may have. Being able to do this on a regular basis is a very important aspect of being a public accountant. Especially in today’s society
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