INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT Cutting Porter’s Last Diamond: Competitive and Comparative (Dis)advantages in the Dutch Flower Cluster Ernesto Tavoletti Æ Robbin te Velde Received: 14 March 2008 / Accepted: 13 April 2008 / Published online: 10 July 2008 Ó Springer-Verlag 2008 Abstract The Dutch are the world’s leaders in the flower business even though they seem to lack comparative advantage in the traditional sense. Comparative advantages played a role in the history of the Dutch flower cluster
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“Critically discuss to what extent Porter’s Diamond is a useful concept in explaining home and host location strategies of international business? Illustrate your answer with references to at least two case companies” The main aim of International business is to build and sustain competitiveness for economic value creation in both domestic and overseas markets (Besanko et al. 2007). Internalisation business theory however has a variety of models that can identify the environmental analysis of specific
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Porter’s Diamond Michael Porter put forth a theory in 1990 to explain why some countries are leaders in the production of certain products. His work incorporates certain elements of previous international trade theories but also makes some important new discoveries. He identifies four elements present to varying degrees in every nation that form the basis of national competitiveness. Analyze the current situation of Japan using the four elements of Porter’s national competitive advantage theory
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1. Reading for this Lecture Porter M. (1990)‚ The Competitive Advantage of Nations‚ Chapters 3&4 2. Why Location Matters The ways that firms create and sustain competitive advantage in global industries provides the necessary foundation for understanding the role of the home nation in the process. There are five premises we must understand relating to national advantage: 1) The nature of competition and the sources of competitive advantage differ widely among industries and industry segments
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Discuss the different components of Michael Porters ´´ the diamond of national advantage”. National prosperity is created not inherited. It does not grow out of a country’s natural endowments‚ its labor pool‚ its inters rates or its currency’s value. A nations competitiveness depends on the capacity of its industry to innovate and upgrade. They benefit from having strong domestic rivals‚ aggressive home based suppliers and demanding local customers. Innovation is what drives and sustains competitiveness
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explain how u can use Porter ’s Diamond model to evaluate and improve the nation ’s competitive position. Introduction Business world is getting complicated day by day .Companies want to do business like participating in the competition for profit or market share. We are now at globalisation era where a local company is to compete with international company (Daniels et al‚ 2007). Challenge for marketing strategy is to find a method of earn a sustainable competitive advantage over the other competing
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Introduction Country prosperity National prosperity does not grow out of a country’s natural endowments‚ its labor pool‚ its interest rates or its currency’s value as classical economics insists‚ this question may led one to think that is created not inherited and would in fact totally agree with the statement. Achieving such prosperity in particular countries requires the use of trade to extract the political and economical benefits from its partners in order to gain them as allies‚ enhance state
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National Competitive Advantage of China in Electric Mobility: The Case of BYD Corresponding Author: Kasperk‚ Garnet Center of International Automobile Management‚ RWTH Aachen University Templergraben 64‚ 52062 Aachen‚ Germany‚ gk@im.rwth-aachen.de Phone +49 241 80 93348‚ Fax +49 241 80 93248 Wilhelm‚ Jan Chair of Organization‚ RWTH Aachen University‚ Templergraben 64‚ 52062 Aachen‚ Germany‚ jw@im.rwth-aachen.de Wagner‚ Wolfgang Volkswagen Corporate University‚ China Cuipingbeilixiqu‚ 16Haolou-1Danyuan
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Summary What are the secrets of India’s success in information technology? By using Porter’s Diamond Model‚ this article tries to answer that question. Based on the analysis‚ it seems the only determinant in the Porter’s Diamond that creates India’s success is Factor Condition (i.e. the Indian intellectual capital and “Indian connection” in Silicon Valley). The supporting determinant outside the diamond is the outsourcing trend in current global competition‚ which can be considered as the Chance
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Diamond Model The approach looks at clusters of industries‚ where the competitiveness of one company is related to the performance of other companies and other factors tied together in the value-added chain‚ in customer-client relation‚ or in local or regional contexts Key Factors in a diamond model for analyzing competitiveness * Factor conditions are human resources‚ physical resources‚ knowledge resources‚ capital resources and infrastructure. Specialized resources are often specific for
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